Government Effectiveness - Governance score in United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Government Effectiveness - Governance score was 74.38 0-100 in 2024. ▼ Falling
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in United Kingdom, 1996–2024
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
The most recent figure for government effectiveness - governance score in United Kingdom is 74.38 0-100, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 1.2% on the previous year and down 11.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in United Kingdom peaked at 87.05 0-100 in 2005 and was at its lowest, 73.47 0-100, in 2023.
United Kingdom ranks 30th of 204 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 26 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 83.61 0-100 | 83.61 0-100 | 83.61 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 84.12 0-100 | 80.21 0-100 | 87.05 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 81.16 0-100 | 78.5 0-100 | 83.58 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 75.91 0-100 | 73.47 0-100 | 78.03 0-100 | 5 |
Countries ranked near United Kingdom
More reference data data for United Kingdom
- Number of child deaths per woman 0.0088 under-five deaths per woman (2024)
- Fertility rate: births per woman 1.56 live births per woman (2023)
- Fertility rate: births per woman 1.56 live births per woman (2023)
- Fertility rate vs. Human Development Index 1.56 live births per woman (2023)
- Human Development Index 0.946 (2023)
- Rule of Law - Governance score 78.82 0-100 (2024)
- Rule of Law - Governance estimate 1.27 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
- Voice and Accountability - Governance estimate 1.3 approx. -2.5 to +2.5 (2024)
- Voice and Accountability - Governance score 79.61 0-100 (2024)
- Political Stability - Governance score 70.3 0-100 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in United Kingdom?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in United Kingdom was 74.38 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 United Kingdom?
- The highest recorded value was 87.05 0-100 in 2005.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in United Kingdom?
- The lowest recorded value was 73.47 0-100 in 2023.
- How does United Kingdom rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- United Kingdom ranks 30th out of 204 countries with data for 2024.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in United Kingdom?
- Over the last ten years it is down 11.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this United Kingdom 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).