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Lesotho: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.64ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-36.7% 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 Lesotho from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.64
2024-0.586
2023-0.735
2022-0.679
2021-0.607
2020-0.641
2019-0.563
2018-0.54
2017-0.538
2016-0.515
2015-0.468
2014-0.389
2013-0.339
2012-0.311
2011-0.212
2010-0.212
2009-0.197
2008-0.33
2007-0.518
2006-0.478
2005-0.227
2004-0.405
20030.235
20020.198
20000.191
19980.192
19960.205

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Published by World Bank, produced by World Bank Group. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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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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