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Nigeria: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.91ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-13.3% 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 Nigeria from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.913
2024-0.961
2023-0.807
2022-0.968
2021-0.96
2020-0.916
2019-0.857
2018-0.733
2017-0.746
2016-0.814
2015-0.806
2014-0.994
2013-0.904
2012-0.883
2011-1.057
2010-1.07
2009-1.028
2008-0.939
2007-0.982
2006-1.065
2005-1.105
2004-1.11
2003-1.396
2002-1.529
2000-1.236
1998-1.38
1996-1.228

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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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