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Uganda: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.31ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-22.6% 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 Uganda from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.311
2024-0.359
2023-0.461
2022-0.533
2021-0.597
2020-0.605
2019-0.481
2018-0.462
2017-0.319
2016-0.335
2015-0.254
2014-0.271
2013-0.435
2012-0.44
2011-0.436
2010-0.405
2009-0.404
2008-0.448
2007-0.434
2006-0.49
2005-0.587
2004-0.534
2003-0.657
2002-0.557
2000-0.64
1998-0.64
1996-0.897

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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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