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Vanuatu: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.75ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-4.3% 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 Vanuatu from 2004 to 2025.

20042025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.749
2024-0.859
2023-0.859
2022-0.811
2021-0.811
2020-0.762
2019-0.696
2018-0.444
2017-0.718
2016-0.717
2015-0.718
2014-0.488
20130.076
20120.077
20110.098
20100.099
2009-0.019
20080.023
2007-0.089
20060.248
20050.248
2004-0.351

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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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