Estonia vs South Korea: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score)
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) over time
- Estonia
- South Korea
How they compare
South Korea currently reports 83.11 0-100 against 83.04 0-100 in Estonia, a difference of 0.07 0-100.
The two have swapped places 6 times across 27 shared years of data; in 1996 it was South Korea ahead.
Estonia ranks 20th and South Korea ranks 19th of 206 countries.
South Korea has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Estonia | South Korea | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 55.97 0-100 | 63.14 0-100 | 7.16 0-100 | South Korea |
| 2000s | 69.92 0-100 | 71.94 0-100 | 2.02 0-100 | South Korea |
| 2010s | 75.87 0-100 | 78.7 0-100 | 2.83 0-100 | South Korea |
| 2020s | 79.84 0-100 | 83.02 0-100 | 3.18 0-100 | South Korea |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher government effectiveness - governance score, Estonia or South Korea?
- South Korea, at 83.11 0-100 against 83.04 0-100 in Estonia as of 2025.
- What is the difference in government effectiveness - governance score between Estonia and South Korea?
- 0.07 0-100, with South Korea ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Estonia and South Korea?
- 27 years are reported by both, from 1996 to 2025.
- How do Estonia and South Korea rank globally for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Estonia ranks 20th and South Korea ranks 19th 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).