Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Cayman Islands
Cayman Islands: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) was 74.09 0-100 in 2025. ▼ Falling
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Cayman Islands, 1996–2025
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
In 2025, government effectiveness - governance score in Cayman Islands stood at 74.09 0-100.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 2.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Cayman Islands peaked at 88.43 0-100 in 1996 and was at its lowest, 68.35 0-100, in 2020.
That places Cayman Islands 37th out of 206 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 27 years of available data.
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Cayman Islands, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 88.43 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 88.16 0-100 | -0.3% |
| 2000 | 88.14 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2002 | 88.28 0-100 | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 77.57 0-100 | -12.1% |
| 2004 | 70.07 0-100 | -9.7% |
| 2005 | 77.47 0-100 | +10.6% |
| 2006 | 77.45 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2007 | 77.48 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 77.97 0-100 | +0.6% |
| 2009 | 70.14 0-100 | -10.0% |
| 2010 | 70.15 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 70.14 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2012 | 70.14 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 70.14 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2014 | 72.26 0-100 | +3.0% |
| 2015 | 72.25 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2016 | 72.27 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 72.26 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2018 | 72.27 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 72.3 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 68.35 0-100 | -5.5% |
| 2021 | 72.2 0-100 | +5.6% |
| 2022 | 74 0-100 | +2.5% |
| 2023 | 74.01 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 74.01 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 74.09 0-100 | +0.1% |
Cayman Islands compared with similar countries
- Cayman Islands's 74.09 0-100 is above the median for high income countries, which is 73.88 0-100, 1.0× the median. (74 countries reporting)
- Cayman Islands's 74.09 0-100 is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 53.22 0-100, 1.4× the median. (37 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 88.29 0-100 | 88.16 0-100 | 88.43 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 78.29 0-100 | 70.07 0-100 | 88.28 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 71.42 0-100 | 70.14 0-100 | 72.3 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 72.78 0-100 | 68.35 0-100 | 74.09 0-100 | 6 |
Countries ranked near Cayman Islands
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- Country level monthly temperature anomalies 0.359 (2026)
- Spring temperature anomalies 0.4176 (2026)
- Summer temperature anomalies 0.8137 (2026)
- Autumn temperature anomalies 1.01 (2026)
- Official exchange rate, LCU per USD, period average 0.8333 (2026)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Cayman Islands?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Cayman Islands was 74.09 0-100 in 2025, according to The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG).
- What is the highest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Cayman Islands?
- The highest recorded value was 88.43 0-100 in 1996.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Cayman Islands?
- The lowest recorded value was 68.35 0-100 in 2020.
- How does Cayman Islands rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Cayman Islands ranks 37th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Cayman Islands?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Cayman Islands data come from?
- The figures come from The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG), published as part of Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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).