Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in China
China: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) was 65.11 0-100 in 2025. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in China, 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 China stood at 65.11 0-100.
That represents a change of down 2.5% on the previous year and up 5.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in China peaked at 66.76 0-100 in 2024 and was at its lowest, 40.67 0-100, in 2002.
That places China 59th out of 206 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 27 years of available data.
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in China, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 46.54 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 42.24 0-100 | -9.2% |
| 2000 | 41.2 0-100 | -2.5% |
| 2002 | 40.67 0-100 | -1.3% |
| 2003 | 40.93 0-100 | +0.7% |
| 2004 | 44.43 0-100 | +8.5% |
| 2005 | 42.36 0-100 | -4.7% |
| 2006 | 43.54 0-100 | +2.8% |
| 2007 | 46.22 0-100 | +6.2% |
| 2008 | 50.42 0-100 | +9.1% |
| 2009 | 50.26 0-100 | -0.3% |
| 2010 | 50.65 0-100 | +0.8% |
| 2011 | 51.01 0-100 | +0.7% |
| 2012 | 50.3 0-100 | -1.4% |
| 2013 | 50.11 0-100 | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 60.88 0-100 | +21.5% |
| 2015 | 61.77 0-100 | +1.5% |
| 2016 | 61.97 0-100 | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 62.88 0-100 | +1.5% |
| 2018 | 61.64 0-100 | -2.0% |
| 2019 | 63.58 0-100 | +3.1% |
| 2020 | 64.77 0-100 | +1.9% |
| 2021 | 63.56 0-100 | -1.9% |
| 2022 | 61.22 0-100 | -3.7% |
| 2023 | 64.83 0-100 | +5.9% |
| 2024 | 66.76 0-100 | +3.0% |
| 2025 | 65.11 0-100 | -2.5% |
China compared with similar countries
- China's 65.11 0-100 is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 51.87 0-100, 1.3× the median. (59 countries reporting)
- China's 65.11 0-100 is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 56.14 0-100, 1.2× the median. (34 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 44.39 0-100 | 42.24 0-100 | 46.54 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 44.45 0-100 | 40.67 0-100 | 50.42 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 57.48 0-100 | 50.11 0-100 | 63.58 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 64.37 0-100 | 61.22 0-100 | 66.76 0-100 | 6 |
Countries ranked near China
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Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in China?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in China was 65.11 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 China?
- The highest recorded value was 66.76 0-100 in 2024.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in China?
- The lowest recorded value was 40.67 0-100 in 2002.
- How does China rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- China ranks 59th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in China?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China 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).