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Samoa: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

0.20ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-67.2% 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 Samoa from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20250.203
20240.386
20230.386
20220.192
20210.513
20200.512
20190.593
20180.831
20170.83
20160.831
20150.618
20140.619
20130.027
2012-0.032
2011-0.033
2010-0.052
2009-0.006
20080.015
2007-0.002
20060.019
20050.093
2004-0.309
2003-0.325
2002-0.321
2000-0.328
1998-0.327
1996-0.314

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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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