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Mauritania: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.76ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+11.4% 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 Mauritania from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.757
2024-0.876
2023-0.886
2022-0.86
2021-0.828
2020-0.881
2019-0.775
2018-0.782
2017-0.769
2016-0.809
2015-0.854
2014-0.779
2013-0.766
2012-0.573
2011-0.382
2010-0.391
2009-0.688
2008-0.696
2007-0.691
2006-0.771
2005-0.671
2004-0.573
2003-0.325
2002-0.321
2000-0.328
1998-0.327
1996-0.314

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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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