Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) by country
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 score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case...
Countries reporting
203
Highest
95.67 0-100
Singapore
Lowest
9.09 0-100
South Sudan
Median
51.54 0-100
Years covered
29
1996–2024
Data points
5,142
What the numbers show
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) is currently reported for 203 countries. The highest value is 95.67 0-100 in Singapore; the lowest is 9.09 0-100 in South Sudan.
The median across all reporting countries is 51.54 0-100, and the mean is 52.2 0-100.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 11.
Over the past decade 92 countries rose and 111 fell. The largest increase was in Marshall Islands (up 61.4%), and the largest decrease in South Sudan (down 42.3%).
Government Effectiveness - Governance score: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore | 95.67 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.4% | flat |
| 2 | Japan | 91.94 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 3 | Luxembourg | 91 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.6% | flat |
| 4 | Denmark | 88.53 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.3% | flat |
| 5 | New Zealand | 87.3 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.9% | falling |
| 6 | Norway | 87.18 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.4% | flat |
| 7 | Switzerland | 87.12 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.4% | flat |
| 8 | Finland | 86.67 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.3% | flat |
| 9 | Australia | 86.52 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 10 | Sweden | 85.85 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.1% | flat |
| 11 | Canada | 85.54 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.4% | flat |
| 12 | Netherlands | 85.41 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.6% | flat |
| 13 | Monaco | 85.12 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.4% | flat |
| 14 | Liechtenstein | 84.26 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.7% | rising |
| 15 | Iceland | 83.34 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.1% | flat |
| 16 | Hong Kong | 83.18 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.7% | rising |
| 17 | Ireland | 82.68 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.5% | flat |
| 18 | Germany | 81.41 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.1% | flat |
| 19 | Austria | 80.79 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.1% | falling |
| 20 | South Korea | 80.25 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 21 | Bermuda | 80.03 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 22 | United States | 77.78 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.7% | falling |
| 23 | Greenland | 77.65 0-100 | 2024 | up 27.8% | rising |
| 24 | Estonia | 76.56 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 25 | Guam | 76.02 0-100 | 2024 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 26 | United Arab Emirates | 75.84 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.8% | rising |
| 27 | Lithuania | 74.7 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.8% | rising |
| 28 | France | 74.69 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.2% | falling |
| 29 | Belgium | 74.57 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.4% | falling |
| 30 | United Kingdom | 74.38 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.0% | falling |
| 31 | Cayman Islands | 74.37 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.8% | falling |
| 32 | Czechia | 74.23 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 33 | Israel | 74.14 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.3% | flat |
| 34 | Qatar | 73.4 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 35 | Macao | 73.04 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.3% | rising |
| 36 | Spain | 72.94 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.5% | falling |
| 37 | Slovenia | 72.52 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 38 | Chile | 70.09 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.7% | flat |
| 39 | Portugal | 69.76 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 40 | Malaysia | 69.13 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 41 | San Marino | 68.79 0-100 | 2024 | down 13.6% | falling |
| 42 | China | 68.76 0-100 | 2024 | up 13.0% | rising |
| 43 | Cyprus | 68.25 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.6% | falling |
| 44 | Brunei | 67.58 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.0% | rising |
| 45 | Italy | 66.75 0-100 | 2024 | up 14.5% | flat |
| 46 | Saudi Arabia | 66.57 0-100 | 2024 | up 26.1% | rising |
| 47 | American Samoa | 66.26 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.0% | rising |
| 48 | Mauritius | 66.22 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.8% | rising |
| 49 | Latvia | 65.79 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.7% | rising |
| 50 | Croatia | 65.14 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.3% | rising |
| 51 | Bahamas | 65.13 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.1% | falling |
| 52 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 64.78 0-100 | 2024 | up 8.7% | falling |
| 53 | Uruguay | 64.77 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 54 | Poland | 64.43 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.6% | rising |
| 55 | Slovakia | 64.13 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.7% | flat |
| 56 | Aruba | 64.11 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.2% | falling |
| 57 | Seychelles | 63.53 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.7% | flat |
| 58 | Malta | 63.44 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.9% | flat |
| 59 | Fiji | 63.18 0-100 | 2024 | up 27.9% | rising |
| 60 | Barbados | 63.1 0-100 | 2024 | down 14.7% | falling |
| 61 | Bahrain | 63.01 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 62 | Bhutan | 62.63 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 63 | Oman | 62.38 0-100 | 2024 | up 15.4% | rising |
| 64 | Hungary | 61.1 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.0% | falling |
| 65 | Georgia | 60.21 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.3% | rising |
| 66 | Samoa | 59.79 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.0% | rising |
| 67 | Antigua and Barbuda | 59.7 0-100 | 2024 | up 12.9% | falling |
| 68 | Romania | 59.47 0-100 | 2024 | up 18.1% | rising |
| 69 | Botswana | 59.45 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.2% | flat |
| 70 | Cape Verde | 59.41 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 71 | India | 59.21 0-100 | 2024 | up 15.9% | rising |
| 72 | United States Virgin Islands | 58.63 0-100 | 2024 | down 26.4% | falling |
| 73 | Montenegro | 58.47 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 74 | Rwanda | 58.12 0-100 | 2024 | up 15.0% | rising |
| 75 | Kuwait | 57.72 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.7% | rising |
| 76 | Albania | 57.41 0-100 | 2024 | up 8.5% | rising |
| 77 | Costa Rica | 56.92 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.7% | rising |
| 78 | Saint Lucia | 56.56 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.3% | falling |
| 78 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 56.56 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.1% | falling |
| 80 | Moldova | 56.35 0-100 | 2024 | up 33.2% | rising |
| 81 | Thailand | 56.27 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.5% | flat |
| 82 | Panama | 56.11 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 83 | Senegal | 55.9 0-100 | 2024 | up 14.3% | rising |
| 84 | Jordan | 55.54 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.4% | rising |
| 85 | Greece | 55.06 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.9% | flat |
| 86 | Argentina | 54.91 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 87 | Indonesia | 54.84 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.7% | rising |
| 88 | Morocco | 54.77 0-100 | 2024 | up 18.8% | rising |
| 89 | Jamaica | 54.67 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.1% | rising |
| 90 | Azerbaijan | 54.57 0-100 | 2024 | up 26.7% | rising |
| 91 | Dominica | 54.24 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.0% | falling |
| 92 | Kazakhstan | 54.19 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 93 | Philippines | 54.15 0-100 | 2024 | down 10.0% | rising |
| 94 | Trinidad and Tobago | 53.5 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.4% | flat |
| 95 | Serbia | 53.32 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 96 | Namibia | 53.27 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.3% | falling |
| 97 | Dominican Republic | 52.79 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 98 | Ghana | 52.5 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 99 | Bulgaria | 52.17 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 100 | Grenada | 51.73 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.7% | falling |
| 101 | Nauru | 51.54 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.2% | rising |
| 101 | Palau | 51.54 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.2% | rising |
| 103 | North Macedonia | 50.71 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.2% | rising |
| 104 | Tonga | 50.62 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 106 | Turkey | 49.97 0-100 | 2024 | down 17.6% | rising |
| 107 | Vietnam | 49.55 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.4% | rising |
| 108 | Egypt | 49.45 0-100 | 2024 | up 27.4% | rising |
| 109 | Guyana | 49.43 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.1% | falling |
| 110 | Colombia | 49.18 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.0% | rising |
| 111 | Belize | 48.83 0-100 | 2024 | up 14.0% | flat |
| 112 | Uzbekistan | 48.55 0-100 | 2024 | up 27.1% | rising |
| 113 | El Salvador | 47.78 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.6% | rising |
| 114 | Micronesia (country) | 47.75 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 115 | Benin | 47.74 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.9% | rising |
| 116 | Peru | 47.44 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 117 | Ecuador | 47.07 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.4% | rising |
| 118 | Mexico | 47.06 0-100 | 2024 | down 12.7% | rising |
| 119 | Maldives | 47.04 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.0% | falling |
| 120 | Brazil | 46.98 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.8% | flat |
| 121 | South Africa | 46.95 0-100 | 2024 | down 18.8% | falling |
| 122 | Tunisia | 46.69 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.7% | falling |
| 123 | Algeria | 46.46 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 124 | Puerto Rico | 46.38 0-100 | 2024 | down 20.5% | falling |
| 125 | Cuba | 46.1 0-100 | 2024 | down 10.2% | rising |
| 126 | Sri Lanka | 46 0-100 | 2024 | down 14.9% | rising |
| 127 | Marshall Islands | 45.68 0-100 | 2024 | up 61.4% | rising |
| 128 | Tanzania | 45.65 0-100 | 2024 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 129 | Cambodia | 45.63 0-100 | 2024 | up 14.9% | rising |
| 130 | Kenya | 45.55 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 131 | Cote d'Ivoire | 45.2 0-100 | 2024 | up 21.2% | rising |
| 132 | Russia | 45.09 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.0% | rising |
| 133 | Uganda | 44.53 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 134 | Paraguay | 44.45 0-100 | 2024 | up 20.2% | rising |
| 135 | Armenia | 44.26 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.2% | rising |
| 136 | Mongolia | 43.77 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 137 | Kiribati | 42.9 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.0% | rising |
| 138 | Suriname | 42.51 0-100 | 2024 | down 15.1% | falling |
| 139 | Djibouti | 41.75 0-100 | 2024 | up 10.1% | rising |
| 140 | Zambia | 40.98 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.0% | rising |
| 141 | Gambia | 40.92 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 142 | Gabon | 40.31 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.8% | flat |
| 143 | Laos | 40.03 0-100 | 2024 | down 12.9% | rising |
| 144 | Ukraine | 39.7 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.7% | rising |
| 145 | Pakistan | 39.67 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.2% | flat |
| 146 | Tajikistan | 39.66 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.4% | rising |
| 147 | Bolivia | 39.47 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.9% | flat |
| 148 | Bangladesh | 39.31 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.4% | rising |
| 149 | Honduras | 39.29 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.9% | rising |
| 150 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 38.99 0-100 | 2024 | down 16.5% | rising |
| 151 | Ethiopia | 38.78 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.9% | rising |
| 152 | Lesotho | 38.76 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.9% | falling |
| 153 | Tuvalu | 37.9 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.7% | falling |
| 154 | Belarus | 37.7 0-100 | 2024 | down 10.3% | rising |
| 155 | Iran | 37.61 0-100 | 2024 | down 18.8% | flat |
| 156 | Mozambique | 37.42 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.0% | falling |
| 157 | Sao Tome and Principe | 37.37 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 158 | Malawi | 37.23 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.7% | rising |
| 159 | Mauritania | 36.93 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.8% | falling |
| 160 | Niger | 36.38 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.8% | rising |
| 161 | Eswatini | 36.15 0-100 | 2024 | down 21.4% | falling |
| 162 | Angola | 36.07 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.1% | rising |
| 163 | Cameroon | 35.77 0-100 | 2024 | down 10.9% | rising |
| 164 | Togo | 35.76 0-100 | 2024 | up 18.5% | rising |
| 165 | Vanuatu | 35.46 0-100 | 2024 | down 15.2% | falling |
| 166 | Madagascar | 34.56 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.8% | falling |
| 167 | Solomon Islands | 34.45 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.8% | falling |
| 168 | Burkina Faso | 34.33 0-100 | 2024 | down 15.0% | rising |
| 169 | Nepal | 34.14 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.6% | falling |
| 170 | Guinea | 34.07 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 171 | Kyrgyzstan | 34.06 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.6% | falling |
| 172 | East Timor | 33.87 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.5% | flat |
| 173 | Papua New Guinea | 33.83 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.7% | falling |
| 174 | Guatemala | 33.66 0-100 | 2024 | down 16.3% | rising |
| 175 | Sierra Leone | 32.54 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.1% | rising |
| 176 | Zimbabwe | 32.14 0-100 | 2024 | up 14.8% | falling |
| 177 | Burundi | 31.78 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.4% | rising |
| 178 | Nigeria | 31.77 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 179 | Nicaragua | 30.87 0-100 | 2024 | down 15.5% | rising |
| 180 | Turkmenistan | 30.75 0-100 | 2024 | down 22.2% | rising |
| 181 | Palestine | 29.98 0-100 | 2024 | down 34.9% | rising |
| 182 | Chad | 29.94 0-100 | 2024 | up 10.9% | falling |
| 183 | Iraq | 29.92 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.4% | rising |
| 184 | Congo | 29.75 0-100 | 2024 | down 10.6% | rising |
| 185 | Lebanon | 29.37 0-100 | 2024 | down 36.4% | falling |
| 186 | Equatorial Guinea | 28.35 0-100 | 2024 | down 12.3% | rising |
| 187 | Comoros | 27.84 0-100 | 2024 | up 8.6% | rising |
| 188 | Liberia | 27.11 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.6% | rising |
| 189 | North Korea | 26.62 0-100 | 2024 | up 16.0% | rising |
| 190 | Mali | 26.31 0-100 | 2024 | down 14.9% | flat |
| 191 | Guinea-Bissau | 24.75 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.2% | falling |
| 192 | Libya | 23.74 0-100 | 2024 | up 13.7% | falling |
| 193 | Eritrea | 23.03 0-100 | 2024 | down 14.9% | falling |
| 194 | Venezuela | 22.83 0-100 | 2024 | down 28.1% | falling |
| 195 | Myanmar | 21.04 0-100 | 2024 | down 19.3% | rising |
| 196 | Central African Republic | 20.69 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.8% | falling |
| 197 | Syria | 18.82 0-100 | 2024 | down 40.4% | falling |
| 198 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 18.41 0-100 | 2024 | down 23.6% | rising |
| 199 | Sudan | 16.46 0-100 | 2024 | down 36.4% | falling |
| 200 | Yemen | 14.93 0-100 | 2024 | down 37.2% | falling |
| 201 | Afghanistan | 13.74 0-100 | 2024 | down 36.7% | rising |
| 202 | Somalia | 13.42 0-100 | 2024 | up 58.8% | rising |
| 203 | Haiti | 12.15 0-100 | 2024 | down 12.1% | falling |
| 204 | South Sudan | 9.09 0-100 | 2024 | down 42.3% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Kosovo 50.15 0-100
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 score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance. The (country-series-time) metadata include the (a) number of sources, and (b) confidence intervals (lower and upper bound). The number of sources indicates the number of underlying data sources on which the governance score (respectively the underlying governance estimate) is based. The confidence intervals include the lower and upper bound of the 90% confidence interval for the governance score. Confidence intervals are a statistical range of values that likely contain the true value (of what is being estimated).