Spain vs United States: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score)
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) over time
- Spain
- United States
How they compare
United States currently reports 76.72 0-100 against 75.48 0-100 in Spain, a difference of 1.24 0-100.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 27 shared years of data; in 1996 it was United States ahead.
Spain ranks 34th and United States ranks 32nd of 206 countries.
United States has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Spain | United States | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 80.92 0-100 | 88.39 0-100 | 7.47 0-100 | United States |
| 2000s | 79.76 0-100 | 85.65 0-100 | 5.89 0-100 | United States |
| 2010s | 72.87 0-100 | 83.51 0-100 | 10.64 0-100 | United States |
| 2020s | 75.16 0-100 | 79.15 0-100 | 3.99 0-100 | United States |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher government effectiveness - governance score, Spain or United States?
- United States, at 76.72 0-100 against 75.48 0-100 in Spain as of 2025.
- What is the difference in government effectiveness - governance score between Spain and United States?
- 1.24 0-100, with United States ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Spain and United States?
- 27 years are reported by both, from 1996 to 2025.
- How do Spain and United States rank globally for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Spain ranks 34th and United States ranks 32nd 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.
Individual pages
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).