Guam vs Kuwait: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

Guam
0.3917 approx. -2.5 to +2.5
in 2024
Kuwait
0.4035 approx. -2.5 to +2.5
in 2024
Guam rank
65th
Kuwait rank
63rd

Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate over time

  • Guam
  • Kuwait
-0.500.51199620102024

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 0.4035 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 against 0.3917 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 in Guam, a difference of 0.0118 approx. -2.5 to +2.5.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 21 shared years of data; in 2004 it was Guam ahead.

Globally, Guam ranks 65th and Kuwait ranks 63rd of 204 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Regulatory Quality - 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, 5,143 data points, 1996–2024
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Regulatory Quality (RQ) captures perceptions of the government’s ability to design and implement policies and regulations that promote private sector development. 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.