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Panama: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

-0.12ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-128.3% 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 Panama from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.121
2024-0.089
20230.027
20220.086
20210.247
20200.3
20190.359
20180.351
20170.355
20160.419
20150.428
20140.409
20130.439
20120.478
20110.542
20100.456
20090.39
20080.499
20070.384
20060.31
20050.306
20040.222
20030.258
20020.407
20000.486
19980.55
19960.192

Source

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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