Brazil vs South Africa: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score)
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) over time
- Brazil
- South Africa
How they compare
South Africa currently reports 51.87 0-100 against 51.61 0-100 in Brazil, a difference of 0.26 0-100.
Across all 27 years both countries report, South Africa has been ahead every year.
Brazil ranks 111th and South Africa ranks 109th of 206 countries.
South Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Brazil | South Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 49.28 0-100 | 61.08 0-100 | 11.8 0-100 | South Africa |
| 2000s | 48.91 0-100 | 60.82 0-100 | 11.9 0-100 | South Africa |
| 2010s | 54.27 0-100 | 60 0-100 | 5.73 0-100 | South Africa |
| 2020s | 49.95 0-100 | 52.74 0-100 | 2.79 0-100 | South Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher government effectiveness - governance score, Brazil or South Africa?
- South Africa, at 51.87 0-100 against 51.61 0-100 in Brazil as of 2025.
- What is the difference in government effectiveness - governance score between Brazil and South Africa?
- 0.26 0-100, with South Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and South Africa?
- 27 years are reported by both, from 1996 to 2025.
- How do Brazil and South Africa rank globally for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Brazil ranks 111th and South Africa ranks 109th of 206 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG), published as Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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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).