Guyana vs Lesotho: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate
Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate over time
- Guyana
- Lesotho
How they compare
Guyana currently reports -0.4475 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 against -0.4849 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 in Lesotho, a difference of 0.0374 approx. -2.5 to +2.5.
The two have swapped places 9 times across 26 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Lesotho ahead.
Globally, Guyana ranks 130th and Lesotho ranks 133rd of 204 countries.
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About this data
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.