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Tonga: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.06ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+57.0% 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 Tonga from 2004 to 2025.

20042025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.059
2024-0.063
2023-0.147
2022-0.245
20210.056
20200.055
20190.198
20180.196
20170.057
2016-0.137
2015-0.137
2014-0.134
2013-0.321
2012-0.321
2011-0.321
2010-0.268
2009-0.296
2008-0.389
2007-0.509
2006-0.671
2005-0.67
2004-0.728

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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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