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Kenya: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

-0.37ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-30.1% since 2015

Regulatory Quality (RQ) captures perceptions of the government’s ability to design and implement policies and regulations that promote private sector development. Governance estimate from the aggregation model, in units of a standard normal distribution, i.e. ranging from approximately -2.5 to 2.5. Larger values correspond to better governance. The (country-series-time) metadata include the (a) number of sources, and (b) standard error. The number of sources indicates the number of underlying data sources on which the governance estimate is based. The standard error indicates the precision of the governance estimate. Larger values indicate less precise estimates. A 90% confidence interval for the governance estimate is given by the estimate +/- 1.64 times the standard error. Annual figures for Kenya from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.373
2024-0.359
2023-0.407
2022-0.396
2021-0.428
2020-0.466
2019-0.345
2018-0.305
2017-0.205
2016-0.234
2015-0.287
2014-0.327
2013-0.524
2012-0.523
2011-0.538
2010-0.386
2009-0.429
2008-0.394
2007-0.34
2006-0.351
2005-0.398
2004-0.424
2003-0.313
2002-0.288
2000-0.694
1998-0.531
1996-0.678

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Published by World Bank, produced by World Bank Group. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-regulatory-quality-governance-estimate (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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