Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Japan
Japan: Government Effectiveness - Governance score was 91.94 0-100 in 2024. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Japan, 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 Japan stood at 91.94 0-100. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.2% on the previous year and up 7.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Japan peaked at 91.94 0-100 in 2024 and was at its lowest, 73.21 0-100, in 1996.
Japan ranks 2nd of 204 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 73.74 0-100 | 73.21 0-100 | 74.26 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 77.48 0-100 | 76.42 0-100 | 79.67 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 82.64 0-100 | 76.9 0-100 | 87.05 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 88.54 0-100 | 83.48 0-100 | 91.94 0-100 | 5 |
Countries ranked near Japan
- 1 Singapore 95.67 0-100 compare
- 3 Luxembourg 91 0-100 compare
- 4 Denmark 88.53 0-100 compare
- 5 New Zealand 87.3 0-100 compare
More reference data data for Japan
- Number of child deaths per woman 0.0038 under-five deaths per woman (2024)
- Fertility rate: births per woman 1.21 live births per woman (2023)
- Fertility rate: births per woman 1.21 live births per woman (2023)
- Fertility rate vs. Human Development Index 1.21 live births per woman (2023)
- Human Development Index 0.925 (2023)
- Rule of Law - Governance score 82.98 0-100 (2024)
- Rule of Law - Governance estimate 1.51 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
- Voice and Accountability - Governance estimate 1.12 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
- Voice and Accountability - Governance score 76.38 0-100 (2024)
- Political Stability - Governance score 85.27 0-100 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Japan?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Japan was 91.94 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 Japan?
- The highest recorded value was 91.94 0-100 in 2024.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Japan?
- The lowest recorded value was 73.21 0-100 in 1996.
- How does Japan rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Japan ranks 2nd out of 204 countries with data for 2024.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Japan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Japan 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).