Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Government Effectiveness - Governance score was 56.92 0-100 in 2024. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Costa Rica, 1996–2024
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
Costa Rica recorded 56.92 0-100 for government effectiveness - governance score in 2024.
That represents a change of down 1.6% on the previous year and down 2.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Costa Rica peaked at 59.77 0-100 in 2012 and was at its lowest, 50.81 0-100, in 1998.
That places Costa Rica 77th out of 204 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 50.85 0-100 | 50.81 0-100 | 50.88 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 55.86 0-100 | 53.46 0-100 | 59.16 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 58.29 0-100 | 57.26 0-100 | 59.77 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 56.16 0-100 | 53.7 0-100 | 57.84 0-100 | 5 |
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More reference data data for Costa Rica
- Number of child deaths per woman 0.0176 under-five deaths per woman (2024)
- Fertility rate: births per woman 1.33 live births per woman (2023)
- Fertility rate: births per woman 1.33 live births per woman (2023)
- Fertility rate vs. Human Development Index 1.33 live births per woman (2023)
- Human Development Index 0.833 (2023)
- Rule of Law - Governance score 67.58 0-100 (2024)
- Rule of Law - Governance estimate 0.6167 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
- Voice and Accountability - Governance estimate 1.01 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
- Voice and Accountability - Governance score 74.55 0-100 (2024)
- Political Stability - Governance estimate 1.18 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Costa Rica?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Costa Rica was 56.92 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 Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 59.77 0-100 in 2012.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 50.81 0-100 in 1998.
- How does Costa Rica rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Costa Rica ranks 77th out of 204 countries with data for 2024.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Costa Rica 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).