Statizoid

Gambia vs Kenya: Government Effectiveness

Gambia
-0.6136
in 2011
Kenya
-0.5403
in 2011
Gambia rank
22nd
Kenya rank
19th

Government Effectiveness over time

  • Gambia
  • Kenya
-0.7-0.6-0.5-0.4-0.3199620032011

How they compare

Kenya currently reports -0.5403 against -0.6136 in Gambia, a difference of 0.0733.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 13 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Kenya ahead.

Gambia ranks 22nd and Kenya ranks 19th 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.