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Zimbabwe: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.89ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+3.8% 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 Zimbabwe from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.886
2024-0.957
2023-1.003
2022-1.064
2021-1.069
2020-1.081
2019-1.061
2018-1.026
2017-0.935
2016-0.893
2015-0.921
2014-1.208
2013-1.337
2012-1.362
2011-1.388
2010-1.464
2009-1.57
2008-1.622
2007-1.348
2006-1.422
2005-1.287
2004-0.984
2003-0.982
2002-0.903
2000-0.789
1998-0.354
1996-0.083

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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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