Government Effectiveness - Governance score in China
China: Government Effectiveness - Governance score was 68.76 0-100 in 2024. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in China, 1996–2024
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
In 2024, government effectiveness - governance score in China stood at 68.76 0-100. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of up 3.5% on the previous year and up 13.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in China peaked at 68.76 0-100 in 2024 and was at its lowest, 41.28 0-100, in 2002.
That places China 42nd out of 204 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 44.04 0-100 | 42.82 0-100 | 45.26 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 44.27 0-100 | 41.28 0-100 | 48.61 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 56.87 0-100 | 48.6 0-100 | 64.38 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 64.71 0-100 | 61.63 0-100 | 68.76 0-100 | 5 |
Countries ranked near China
More reference data data for China
- Number of child deaths per woman 0.0096 under-five deaths per woman (2024)
- Fertility rate vs. Human Development Index 0.999 live births per woman (2023)
- Fertility rate: births per woman 0.999 live births per woman (2023)
- Fertility rate: births per woman 0.999 live births per woman (2023)
- Human Development Index 0.797 (2023)
- Rule of Law - Governance estimate -0.5793 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
- Rule of Law - Governance score 46.99 0-100 (2024)
- Voice and Accountability - Governance score 27.91 0-100 (2024)
- Voice and Accountability - Governance estimate -1.65 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
- Political Stability - Governance estimate -0.1533 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in China?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in China was 68.76 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 China?
- The highest recorded value was 68.76 0-100 in 2024.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in China?
- The lowest recorded value was 41.28 0-100 in 2002.
- How does China rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- China ranks 42nd out of 204 countries with data for 2024.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in China?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China 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
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).