Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Nigeria
Nigeria: Government Effectiveness - Governance score was 31.77 0-100 in 2024. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Nigeria, 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 Nigeria stood at 31.77 0-100.
The figure is down 7.8% on the previous year and up 3.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Nigeria peaked at 34.89 0-100 in 2018 and was at its lowest, 21.66 0-100, in 2002.
Nigeria ranks 178th of 204 countries on this measure, in the bottom 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 | 27.99 0-100 | 25.6 0-100 | 30.37 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 28.69 0-100 | 21.66 0-100 | 32.75 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 32.34 0-100 | 29.22 0-100 | 34.89 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 32.03 0-100 | 30.79 0-100 | 34.47 0-100 | 5 |
Countries ranked near Nigeria
More reference data data for Nigeria
- Number of child deaths per woman 0.5759 under-five deaths per woman (2024)
- Fertility rate vs. Human Development Index 4.48 live births per woman (2023)
- Fertility rate: births per woman 4.48 live births per woman (2023)
- Fertility rate: births per woman 4.48 live births per woman (2023)
- Human Development Index 0.56 (2023)
- Rule of Law - Governance estimate -1.01 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
- Rule of Law - Governance score 39.63 0-100 (2024)
- Voice and Accountability - Governance score 44.13 0-100 (2024)
- Voice and Accountability - Governance estimate -0.7265 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
- Political Stability - Governance estimate -2 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Nigeria?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Nigeria was 31.77 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 Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 34.89 0-100 in 2018.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 21.66 0-100 in 2002.
- How does Nigeria rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Nigeria ranks 178th out of 204 countries with data for 2024.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Nigeria?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nigeria 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).