Canada vs Norway: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score)

Canada
88.31 0-100
in 2025
Norway
90 0-100
in 2025
Canada rank
10th
Norway rank
8th

Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) over time

  • Canada
  • Norway
020406080100199620102025

How they compare

Norway currently reports 90 0-100 against 88.31 0-100 in Canada, a difference of 1.69 0-100.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 27 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Norway ahead.

Canada ranks 10th and Norway ranks 8th of 206 countries.

Norway has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Canada Norway Difference Ahead
1990s 89.64 0-100 90.86 0-100 1.21 0-100 Norway
2000s 90.95 0-100 91.19 0-100 0.2373 0-100 Norway
2010s 90.62 0-100 91.88 0-100 1.26 0-100 Norway
2020s 87.22 0-100 90.64 0-100 3.41 0-100 Norway

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher government effectiveness - governance score, Canada or Norway?
Norway, at 90 0-100 against 88.31 0-100 in Canada as of 2025.
What is the difference in government effectiveness - governance score between Canada and Norway?
1.69 0-100, with Norway ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and Norway?
27 years are reported by both, from 1996 to 2025.
How do Canada and Norway rank globally for government effectiveness - governance score?
Canada ranks 10th and Norway ranks 8th 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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Indicator
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100)
Unit
0-100
Source
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
206 places, 5,392 data points, 1996–2025
Last refreshed

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).