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Namibia: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

0.10ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-66.6% 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 Namibia from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20250.101
20240.176
20230.111
20220.119
20210.132
20200.142
20190.285
20180.315
20170.273
20160.239
20150.301
20140.313
20130.312
20120.357
20110.132
20100.201
20090.456
20080.366
20070.277
20060.26
2005-0.013
20040.02
20030.054
2002-0.006
20000.384
19980.385
19960.783

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Published by World Bank, produced by World Bank Group. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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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 2026-11-05.

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