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Zimbabwe: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

-1.28ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+11.3% since 2015

Regulatory Quality (RQ) captures perceptions of the government’s ability to design and implement policies and regulations that promote private sector development. 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
2025-1.275
2024-1.233
2023-1.268
2022-1.323
2021-1.348
2020-1.355
2019-1.326
2018-1.395
2017-1.421
2016-1.504
2015-1.438
2014-1.744
2013-1.73
2012-1.72
2011-1.76
2010-1.803
2009-1.9
2008-1.994
2007-1.948
2006-1.919
2005-1.999
2004-1.837
2003-2.258
2002-2.08
2000-1.902
1998-1.245
1996-1.315

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World Bank (2026). Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-regulatory-quality-governance-estimate (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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