Iceland vs United States: Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100)
Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) over time
- Iceland
- United States
How they compare
Iceland currently reports 73.84 0-100 against 72.81 0-100 in United States, a difference of 1.03 0-100.
The two have swapped places 9 times across 27 shared years of data; in 1996 it was United States ahead.
Iceland ranks 29th and United States ranks 31st of 206 countries.
Across the 4 decades both report, Iceland averaged higher in 2 and United States in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Iceland | United States | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 72.11 0-100 | 81.82 0-100 | 9.71 0-100 | United States |
| 2000s | 83.7 0-100 | 83.27 0-100 | 0.4335 0-100 | Iceland |
| 2010s | 78.32 0-100 | 79.15 0-100 | 0.8275 0-100 | United States |
| 2020s | 79.02 0-100 | 78.27 0-100 | 0.7512 0-100 | Iceland |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher regulatory quality - governance score, Iceland or United States?
- Iceland, at 73.84 0-100 against 72.81 0-100 in United States as of 2025.
- What is the difference in regulatory quality - governance score between Iceland and United States?
- 1.03 0-100, with Iceland ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Iceland and United States?
- 27 years are reported by both, from 1996 to 2025.
- How do Iceland and United States rank globally for regulatory quality - governance score?
- Iceland ranks 29th and United States ranks 31st 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 Regulatory Quality - 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
Regulatory Quality (RQ) captures perceptions of the government’s ability to design and implement policies and regulations that promote private sector development. 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).