Botswana vs Samoa: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate
Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate over time
- Botswana
- Samoa
How they compare
Samoa currently reports 0.4345 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 against 0.4169 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 in Botswana, a difference of 0.0176 approx. -2.5 to +2.5.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 26 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Botswana ahead.
Globally, Botswana ranks 69th and Samoa ranks 66th of 204 countries.
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About this data
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.