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Timor-Leste: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.54ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+15.4% 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 Timor-Leste from 2002 to 2025.

20022025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.541
2024-0.652
2023-0.608
2022-0.5
2021-0.44
2020-0.45
2019-0.423
2018-0.662
2017-0.66
2016-0.639
2015-0.64
2014-0.639
2013-0.949
2012-0.906
2011-0.916
2010-0.96
2009-0.832
2008-0.457
2007-1.106
2006-1.104
2005-1.049
2004-0.512
2003-0.844
2002-0.321

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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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