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Maldives: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

-0.40ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-18.4% 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 Maldives from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.397
2024-0.301
2023-0.378
2022-0.378
2021-0.284
2020-0.374
2019-0.252
2018-0.253
2017-0.254
2016-0.256
2015-0.335
2014-0.295
2013-0.311
2012-0.286
2011-0.273
2010-0.204
2009-0.309
2008-0.309
20070.018
20060.104
20050.106
2004-0.258
20030.751
20020.926
20000.904
19980.903
19960.886

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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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