Botswana vs Samoa: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

Botswana
0.4169 approx. -2.5 to +2.5
in 2024
Samoa
0.4345 approx. -2.5 to +2.5
in 2024
Botswana rank
69th
Samoa rank
66th

Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate over time

  • Botswana
  • Samoa
-0.2500.250.50.75199620102024

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

Indicator
Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate (approx. -2.5 to +2.5)
Unit
approx. -2.5 to +2.5
Source
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
204 places, 5,142 data points, 1996–2024
Last refreshed

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.