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Maldives: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.24ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+0.6% 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 Maldives from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.241
2024-0.245
2023-0.245
2022-0.245
20210.136
2020-0.105
20190.007
2018-0.309
2017-0.31
2016-0.07
2015-0.242
2014-0.182
2013-0.113
2012-0.053
2011-0.113
2010-0.022
2009-0.18
2008-0.143
2007-0.037
2006-0.038
2005-0.037
20040.135
20030.713
20020.717
20000.71
19980.711
19960.725

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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 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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