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Rwanda: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

0.36ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+829.5% 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 Rwanda from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20250.361
20240.335
20230.328
20220.265
20210.193
20200.243
20190.245
20180.313
20170.358
20160.211
20150.039
20140.042
20130.075
2012-0.013
2011-0.04
2010-0.053
2009-0.212
2008-0.222
2007-0.401
2006-0.39
2005-0.703
2004-0.686
2003-1.448
2002-1.446
2000-1.366
1998-1.365
1996-1.352

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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 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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