Botswana vs Ghana: Voice and Accountability

Botswana
0.4244
in 2011
Ghana
0.4963
in 2011
Botswana rank
5th
Ghana rank
4th

Voice and Accountability over time

  • Botswana
  • Ghana
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How they compare

Ghana currently reports 0.4963 against 0.4244 in Botswana, a difference of 0.0719.

That makes Ghana's figure about 1.2 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 13 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 5th and Ghana ranks 4th of 53 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Voice and Accountability (estimate)
Source
World Bank Institute
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
53 places, 689 data points, 1996–2011
Last refreshed

Voice and accountability measures the extent to which a country’s citizens are able to participate in selecting their government and to enjoy freedom of expression, freedom of association, and a free media. Further documentation and research using the World Governance Indicators (WGI) is available at www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance.