Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Latvia

Latvia: Government Effectiveness - Governance score was 65.79 0-100 in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
65.79 0-100
Change on year
up 3.2%
World rank
49th
of 204 countries
All-time high
68.44 0-100
in 2021
All-time low
43.21 0-100
in 1996
Years of data
26
1996–2024

Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Latvia, 1996–2024

02040601996201020241996: 43.2 0-1001998: 50 0-1002000: 50.7 0-1002002: 58.2 0-1002003: 59.9 0-1002004: 59.5 0-1002005: 59.2 0-1002006: 59.6 0-1002007: 57.3 0-1002008: 58 0-1002009: 59.7 0-1002010: 62.2 0-1002011: 62.4 0-1002012: 63.2 0-1002013: 65.1 0-1002014: 68.3 0-1002015: 66.1 0-1002016: 64.7 0-1002017: 64.4 0-1002018: 66.9 0-1002019: 67.5 0-1002020: 66.8 0-1002021: 68.4 0-1002022: 65.5 0-1002023: 63.7 0-1002024: 65.8 0-100

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

Analysis

Latvia recorded 65.79 0-100 for government effectiveness - governance score in 2024.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.2% on the previous year and down 3.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Latvia peaked at 68.44 0-100 in 2021 and was at its lowest, 43.21 0-100, in 1996.

Latvia ranks 49th of 204 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

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

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 46.6 0-100 43.21 0-100 49.99 0-100 2
2000s 58 0-100 50.71 0-100 59.91 0-100 9
2010s 65.08 0-100 62.24 0-100 68.35 0-100 10
2020s 66.06 0-100 63.73 0-100 68.44 0-100 5

Countries ranked near Latvia

  1. 46 Saudi Arabia 66.57 0-100 compare
  2. 47 American Samoa 66.26 0-100 compare
  3. 48 Mauritius 66.22 0-100 compare
  4. 50 Croatia 65.14 0-100 compare
  5. 51 Bahamas 65.13 0-100 compare
  6. 52 Saint Kitts and Nevis 64.78 0-100 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is government effectiveness - governance score in Latvia?
Government effectiveness - governance score in Latvia was 65.79 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 Latvia?
The highest recorded value was 68.44 0-100 in 2021.
What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Latvia?
The lowest recorded value was 43.21 0-100 in 1996.
How does Latvia rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
Latvia ranks 49th out of 204 countries with data for 2024.
Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Latvia?
Over the last ten years it is down 3.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Latvia 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
Last refreshed

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).