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Spain: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

1.13ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+6.0% 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 Spain from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20251.13
20241.163
20231.126
20221.141
20211.096
20201.032
20191.105
20181.064
20171.018
20161.055
20151.066
20141.024
20131.039
20120.91
20110.891
20100.858
20090.984
20081.092
20071.134
20061.036
20051.371
20041.182
20031.821
20021.83
20001.608
19981.352
19961.44

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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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