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Somalia: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-1.91ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+11.1% 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 Somalia from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-1.907
2024-1.971
2023-1.948
2022-2.024
2021-2.046
2020-2.029
2019-2.098
2018-2.12
2017-2.089
2016-2.074
2015-2.144
2014-2.293
2013-2.183
2012-2.153
2011-2.182
2010-2.176
2009-1.979
2008-2.048
2007-2.062
2006-2.062
2005-2.062
2004-1.962
2003-2.237
2002-1.986
2000-2.098
1998-2.098
1996-2.089

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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 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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