Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Colombia
Colombia: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) was 50.43 0-100 in 2025. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Colombia, 1996–2025
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
Colombia recorded 50.43 0-100 for government effectiveness - governance score in 2025.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.2% on the previous year and down 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Colombia peaked at 53.73 0-100 in 2011 and was at its lowest, 36.15 0-100, in 2002.
Colombia ranks 115th of 206 countries on this measure, 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 Colombia, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 51.63 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 43.92 0-100 | -14.9% |
| 2000 | 43.33 0-100 | -1.3% |
| 2002 | 36.15 0-100 | -16.6% |
| 2003 | 42.44 0-100 | +17.4% |
| 2004 | 46.48 0-100 | +9.5% |
| 2005 | 45.43 0-100 | -2.3% |
| 2006 | 47.41 0-100 | +4.4% |
| 2007 | 47.64 0-100 | +0.5% |
| 2008 | 50.53 0-100 | +6.1% |
| 2009 | 49.28 0-100 | -2.5% |
| 2010 | 51.65 0-100 | +4.8% |
| 2011 | 53.73 0-100 | +4.0% |
| 2012 | 52.99 0-100 | -1.4% |
| 2013 | 53.64 0-100 | +1.2% |
| 2014 | 50.97 0-100 | -5.0% |
| 2015 | 52.32 0-100 | +2.7% |
| 2016 | 52.68 0-100 | +0.7% |
| 2017 | 51.8 0-100 | -1.7% |
| 2018 | 52.23 0-100 | +0.8% |
| 2019 | 52.92 0-100 | +1.3% |
| 2020 | 51.97 0-100 | -1.8% |
| 2021 | 51.85 0-100 | -0.2% |
| 2022 | 52.72 0-100 | +1.7% |
| 2023 | 51.51 0-100 | -2.3% |
| 2024 | 51.56 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 50.43 0-100 | -2.2% |
Colombia compared with similar countries
- Colombia's 50.43 0-100 is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 51.87 0-100, 97% of the median. (59 countries reporting)
- Colombia's 50.43 0-100 is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 53.22 0-100, 95% of the median. (37 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 47.78 0-100 | 43.92 0-100 | 51.63 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 45.41 0-100 | 36.15 0-100 | 50.53 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 52.49 0-100 | 50.97 0-100 | 53.73 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 51.67 0-100 | 50.43 0-100 | 52.72 0-100 | 6 |
Countries ranked near Colombia
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- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.4113 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Agricultural Soils 19.02 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 9.81 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure Management 2.67 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 61.25 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 94.56 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 2.24 (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Colombia?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Colombia was 50.43 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 Colombia?
- The highest recorded value was 53.73 0-100 in 2011.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Colombia?
- The lowest recorded value was 36.15 0-100 in 2002.
- How does Colombia rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Colombia ranks 115th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Colombia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Colombia 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).