Eswatini vs Malawi: Government Effectiveness - Governance score

Eswatini
36.15 0-100
in 2024
Malawi
37.23 0-100
in 2024
Eswatini rank
162nd
Malawi rank
159th

Government Effectiveness - Governance score over time

  • Eswatini
  • Malawi
01020304050199620102024

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 37.23 0-100 against 36.15 0-100 in Eswatini, a difference of 1.08 0-100.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 26 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Eswatini ahead.

Eswatini ranks 162nd and Malawi ranks 159th of 205 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Eswatini Malawi Difference Ahead
1990s 45.94 0-100 36.94 0-100 8.99 0-100 Eswatini
2000s 39.58 0-100 35.07 0-100 4.51 0-100 Eswatini
2010s 45.41 0-100 39.85 0-100 5.55 0-100 Eswatini
2020s 37.82 0-100 36.94 0-100 0.8793 0-100 Eswatini

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher government effectiveness - governance score, Eswatini or Malawi?
Malawi, at 37.23 0-100 against 36.15 0-100 in Eswatini as of 2024.
What is the difference in government effectiveness - governance score between Eswatini and Malawi?
1.08 0-100, with Malawi ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Eswatini and Malawi?
26 years are reported by both, from 1996 to 2024.
How do Eswatini and Malawi rank globally for government effectiveness - governance score?
Eswatini ranks 162nd and Malawi ranks 159th of 205 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.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Eswatini vs Malawi: Government Effectiveness - Governance score. Statizoid, drawing on The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Retrieved 24 September 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/compare/government-effectiveness-governance-score-0-100/eswatini/malawi/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/compare/government-effectiveness-governance-score-0-100/eswatini/malawi/">Eswatini vs Malawi: Government Effectiveness - Governance score</a> — Statizoid

About this data

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
205 places, 5,161 data points, 1996–2024
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).