Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Belgium

Belgium: Government Effectiveness - Governance score was 74.57 0-100 in 2024. ▼ Falling

Latest (2024)
74.57 0-100
Change on year
up 0.8%
World rank
29th
of 204 countries
All-time high
88.99 0-100
in 2002
All-time low
73.13 0-100
in 2019
Years of data
26
1996–2024

Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Belgium, 1996–2024

0204060801996201020241996: 84 0-1001998: 83.1 0-1002000: 86 0-1002002: 89 0-1002003: 84.5 0-1002004: 83.2 0-1002005: 84.4 0-1002006: 81.1 0-1002007: 80.7 0-1002008: 81.5 0-1002009: 85.3 0-1002010: 83.6 0-1002011: 86.3 0-1002012: 86.4 0-1002013: 86.6 0-1002014: 81.4 0-1002015: 81 0-1002016: 77.6 0-1002017: 73.7 0-1002018: 75.3 0-1002019: 73.1 0-1002020: 74.1 0-1002021: 75.2 0-1002022: 76.8 0-1002023: 74 0-1002024: 74.6 0-100

Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.

Analysis

Belgium recorded 74.57 0-100 for government effectiveness - governance score in 2024.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.8% on the previous year and down 8.4% over ten years.

Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Belgium peaked at 88.99 0-100 in 2002 and was at its lowest, 73.13 0-100, in 2019.

Belgium ranks 29th of 204 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 26 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 83.55 0-100 83.13 0-100 83.97 0-100 2
2000s 83.97 0-100 80.75 0-100 88.99 0-100 9
2010s 80.51 0-100 73.13 0-100 86.64 0-100 10
2020s 74.94 0-100 73.99 0-100 76.82 0-100 5

Countries ranked near Belgium

  1. 26 United Arab Emirates 75.84 0-100 compare
  2. 27 Lithuania 74.7 0-100 compare
  3. 28 France 74.69 0-100 compare
  4. 30 United Kingdom 74.38 0-100 compare
  5. 31 Cayman Islands 74.37 0-100 compare
  6. 32 Czechia 74.23 0-100 compare

See the full ranking of 204 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is government effectiveness - governance score in Belgium?
Government effectiveness - governance score in Belgium was 74.57 0-100 in 2024, according to The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG).
What is the highest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Belgium?
The highest recorded value was 88.99 0-100 in 2002.
What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Belgium?
The lowest recorded value was 73.13 0-100 in 2019.
How does Belgium rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
Belgium ranks 29th out of 204 countries with data for 2024.
Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Belgium?
Over the last ten years it is down 8.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Belgium data come from?
The figures come from The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG), published as part of Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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About this data

Indicator
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100)
Unit
0-100
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
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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).