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Nigeria: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

-0.65ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+16.7% 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 Nigeria from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.646
2024-0.658
2023-0.861
2022-0.994
2021-0.876
2020-0.901
2019-0.88
2018-0.85
2017-0.805
2016-0.855
2015-0.775
2014-0.823
2013-0.764
2012-0.771
2011-0.915
2010-0.945
2009-0.78
2008-0.803
2007-0.876
2006-0.919
2005-1.051
2004-1.252
2003-1.128
2002-1.122
2000-1.169
1998-1.043
1996-1.048

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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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