Benin vs Malawi: Government Effectiveness

Benin
-0.4632
in 2011
Malawi
-0.4328
in 2011
Benin rank
15th
Malawi rank
13th

Government Effectiveness over time

  • Benin
  • Malawi
-0.8-0.6-0.4-0.2199620032011

How they compare

Malawi currently reports -0.4328 against -0.4632 in Benin, a difference of 0.0304.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 13 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Benin ahead.

Benin ranks 15th and Malawi ranks 13th of 53 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Government Effectiveness (estimate)
Source
World Bank Institute
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
53 places, 688 data points, 1996–2011
Last refreshed

Government effectiveness measures the quality of public services, the quality and degree of independence from political pressures of the civil service, the quality of policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of the government’s commitment to such policies. Further documentation and research using the World Governance Indicators (WGI) is available at www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance.