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Kuwait: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

0.26ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+17.8% since 2015

Government Effectiveness (GE) captures perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service, policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of a government’s decisions. 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 Kuwait from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20250.256
20240.163
20230.198
20220.253
20210.021
2020-0.103
2019-0.093
20180.124
20170.002
20160.006
20150.218
20140.116
2013-0.007
20120.004
20110.035
20100.117
20090.094
2008-0.083
2007-0.17
2006-0.129
2005-0.007
20040.022
20030.05
2002-0.125
2000-0.425
1998-0.425
1996-0.04

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World Bank (2026). Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-government-effectiveness-governance-estimate (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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