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Nepal: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.77ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+20.3% 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 Nepal from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.77
2024-0.697
2023-0.717
2022-0.835
2021-0.852
2020-0.852
2019-0.859
2018-0.687
2017-0.71
2016-0.807
2015-0.966
2014-0.739
2013-0.879
2012-0.931
2011-0.681
2010-0.588
2009-0.68
2008-0.617
2007-0.984
2006-1.057
2005-1.024
2004-0.776
2003-1.106
2002-1.104
2000-0.847
1998-0.846
1996-0.833

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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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