Malaysia vs Saudi Arabia: Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100)
Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) over time
- Malaysia
- Saudi Arabia
How they compare
Malaysia currently reports 67.28 0-100 against 67.02 0-100 in Saudi Arabia, a difference of 0.26 0-100.
Across all 27 years both countries report, Malaysia has been ahead every year.
Malaysia ranks 44th and Saudi Arabia ranks 46th of 206 countries.
Malaysia has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Malaysia | Saudi Arabia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 62.52 0-100 | 50.78 0-100 | 11.73 0-100 | Malaysia |
| 2000s | 64.82 0-100 | 55.05 0-100 | 9.77 0-100 | Malaysia |
| 2010s | 68.32 0-100 | 58.59 0-100 | 9.73 0-100 | Malaysia |
| 2020s | 67.03 0-100 | 63.47 0-100 | 3.56 0-100 | Malaysia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher regulatory quality - governance score, Malaysia or Saudi Arabia?
- Malaysia, at 67.28 0-100 against 67.02 0-100 in Saudi Arabia as of 2025.
- What is the difference in regulatory quality - governance score between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia?
- 0.26 0-100, with Malaysia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Malaysia and Saudi Arabia?
- 27 years are reported by both, from 1996 to 2025.
- How do Malaysia and Saudi Arabia rank globally for regulatory quality - governance score?
- Malaysia ranks 44th and Saudi Arabia ranks 46th 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).