Regulatory Quality rose to -1.46 standardised score (≈ -2.5 to +2.5) in 2024, from -1.54 standardised score (≈ -2.5 to +2.5) in 2023.

Ability of the government to formulate and implement sound policies and regulations that permit and promote private-sector development. Expressed as a standardised score approximately in the range -2.5 (worst) to +2.5 (best). Haiti's score was -1.46 in 2024, reflecting weak regulatory frameworks and limited state capacity to support a functioning business environment.

Latest value: -1.46 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	-1.43
1998	-1.42
2000	-1.41
2002	-1.40
2003	-1.41
2004	-1.52
2005	-1.41
2006	-0.93
2007	-0.95
2008	-0.87
2009	-0.87
2010	-1.12
2011	-1.20
2012	-1.23
2013	-1.20
2014	-1.31
2015	-1.33
2016	-1.33
2017	-1.30
2018	-1.24
2019	-1.27
2020	-1.31
2021	-1.42
2022	-1.42
2023	-1.54
2024	-1.46

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.