Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate
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.
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Unit
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- Cadence
- Annual
- Series
- 203
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-06
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World Bank Group
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG), uri: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/worldwide-governance-indicators, note: Detailed documentation of the WGI, interactive tools for exploring the data, and full access to the underlying source data available at www.govindicators.org. Worldwide Governance Indicators, 2025 Revision, World Bank (www.govindicators.org), Accessed on 12/15/2025. And: World Bank (2025). “The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data.” Washington, DC: World Bank Group. The 2025 revision builds upon the original WGI methodology which was introduced in 1999 and summarized by the following paper: Kaufmann, Daniel & Aart C. Kraay. (2024). “The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Methodology and 2024 Update.” Policy Research Working Paper. Washington, DC: World Bank Group., date accessed: 2026-06-03, date published: 2025
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World Development Indicators
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Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 2024 | -1.93 | ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) |
| Albania | 2024 | 0.31 | ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) |
| Algeria | 2024 | -0.25 | ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) |
| American Samoa | 2024 | 0.77 | ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) |
| Angola | 2024 | -0.79 | ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 2024 | 0.43 | ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) |
| Argentina | 2024 | 0.18 | ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) |
| Armenia | 2024 | -0.36 | ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) |
| Aruba | 2024 | 0.66 | ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) |
| Australia | 2024 | 1.81 | ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) |
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