Government Effectiveness fell to -2.02 standardised score (≈ -2.5 to +2.5) in 2024, from -2.01 standardised score (≈ -2.5 to +2.5) in 2023.

Quality of public services and the civil service, its independence from political pressures, quality of policy formulation and implementation, and credibility of the government's commitment to such policies. Expressed as a standardised score approximately in the range -2.5 (worst) to +2.5 (best).

Latest value: -2.02 standardised score (≈ -2.5 to +2.5) (2024)

Coverage: 1996–2024 · Frequency: annual · 26 observations

Source: World Governance Indicators

Recent observations

Period	Value — standardised score (≈ -2.5 to +2.5)
1996	-1.35
1998	-1.36
2000	-1.36
2002	-1.84
2003	-1.84
2004	-1.90
2005	-1.66
2006	-1.66
2007	-1.66
2008	-1.44
2009	-1.44
2010	-1.57
2011	-1.62
2012	-1.60
2013	-1.52
2014	-1.93
2015	-1.87
2016	-1.88
2017	-1.89
2018	-1.75
2019	-1.89
2020	-1.92
2021	-2.06
2022	-2.01
2023	-2.01
2024	-2.02

Sector: BX

Methodology

Coverage Six measures of how a country is governed, published by the World Bank at info.worldbank.org. Each aggregates more than 30 underlying sources, among them household and firm surveys, expert assessments, NGO ratings and commercial risk services, using a model that weights each source by how closely it agrees with the others.