Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Ghana
Ghana: Government Effectiveness - Governance score was 52.5 0-100 in 2024. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Ghana, 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 Ghana stood at 52.5 0-100.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.9% on the previous year and up 5.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Ghana peaked at 52.88 0-100 in 2009 and was at its lowest, 42.81 0-100, in 2003.
Ghana ranks 98th of 204 countries on this measure, 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 | 48.04 0-100 | 45.37 0-100 | 50.71 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 48.93 0-100 | 42.81 0-100 | 52.88 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 50.93 0-100 | 49.62 0-100 | 52.06 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 51.03 0-100 | 50.05 0-100 | 52.5 0-100 | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ghana
More reference data data for Ghana
- Number of child deaths per woman 0.1281 under-five deaths per woman (2024)
- Fertility rate: births per woman 3.4 live births per woman (2023)
- Fertility rate: births per woman 3.4 live births per woman (2023)
- Fertility rate vs. Human Development Index 3.4 live births per woman (2023)
- Human Development Index 0.628 (2023)
- Rule of Law - Governance estimate 0.054 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
- Rule of Law - Governance score 57.89 0-100 (2024)
- Voice and Accountability - Governance estimate 0.2043 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
- Voice and Accountability - Governance score 60.43 0-100 (2024)
- Political Stability - Governance estimate 0.0115 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Ghana?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Ghana was 52.5 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 Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 52.88 0-100 in 2009.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 42.81 0-100 in 2003.
- How does Ghana rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Ghana ranks 98th out of 204 countries with data for 2024.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ghana 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).