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Malawi: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

-0.59ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+20.0% 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 Malawi from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.589
2024-0.567
2023-0.693
2022-0.662
2021-0.685
2020-0.722
2019-0.652
2018-0.662
2017-0.674
2016-0.728
2015-0.736
2014-0.706
2013-0.736
2012-0.705
2011-0.449
2010-0.368
2009-0.566
2008-0.531
2007-0.503
2006-0.55
2005-0.576
2004-0.701
2003-0.695
2002-0.773
2000-0.197
1998-0.198
1996-0.556

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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). Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-regulatory-quality-governance-estimate (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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