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Sweden: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

1.57ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-11.5% 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 Sweden from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20251.571
20241.637
20231.646
20221.603
20211.651
20201.687
20191.745
20181.729
20171.713
20161.763
20151.774
20141.689
20131.927
20121.978
20112.017
20101.749
20091.757
20081.795
20071.779
20061.71
20051.738
20041.827
20031.835
20021.81
20001.458
19981.236
19961.315

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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). 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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