Palau vs Spain: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

Palau
0.4812 approx. -2.5 to +2.5
in 2024
Spain
0.6208 approx. -2.5 to +2.5
in 2024
Palau rank
58th
Spain rank
55th

Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate over time

  • Palau
  • Spain
-0.500.511.5199620102024

How they compare

Spain currently reports 0.6208 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 against 0.4812 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 in Palau, a difference of 0.1397 approx. -2.5 to +2.5.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.3 times Palau's.

Across all 17 years both countries report, Spain has been ahead every year.

Globally, Palau ranks 58th and Spain ranks 55th 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
Last refreshed

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.