Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Greenland
Greenland: Government Effectiveness - Governance score was 77.65 0-100 in 2024. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Greenland, 2009–2024
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
In 2024, government effectiveness - governance score in Greenland stood at 77.65 0-100. That is the highest value across all 16 years on record.
The figure is up 16.8% on the previous year and up 27.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Greenland peaked at 77.65 0-100 in 2024 and was at its lowest, 60.34 0-100, in 2009.
That places Greenland 23rd out of 205 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 16 years of available data.
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Greenland, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 60.34 0-100 | — |
| 2010 | 60.4 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 60.37 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 60.37 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 60.38 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 60.75 0-100 | +0.6% |
| 2015 | 60.68 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 60.71 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 60.71 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 60.75 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 60.8 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 60.68 0-100 | -0.2% |
| 2021 | 60.75 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 66.47 0-100 | +9.4% |
| 2023 | 66.49 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 77.65 0-100 | +16.8% |
Greenland compared with similar countries
- Greenland's 77.65 0-100 is above the median for high income countries, which is 72.52 0-100, 1.1× the median. (73 countries reporting)
- Greenland's 77.65 0-100 is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 65.79 0-100, 1.2× the median. (53 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 60.34 0-100 | 60.34 0-100 | 60.34 0-100 | 1 |
| 2010s | 60.59 0-100 | 60.37 0-100 | 60.8 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 66.41 0-100 | 60.68 0-100 | 77.65 0-100 | 5 |
Countries ranked near Greenland
- 20 South Korea 80.25 0-100 compare
- 21 Bermuda 80.03 0-100 compare
- 22 United States 77.78 0-100 compare
- 24 Estonia 76.56 0-100 compare
- 25 Guam 76.02 0-100 compare
- 26 United Arab Emirates 75.84 0-100 compare
More reference data data for Greenland
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.2128 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0004 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0986 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.1141 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0041 (2019)
- Official exchange rate, LCU per USD, period average 6.82 (2017)
- Annual precipitation, annual growth rate 7.26 % change on previous year (2025)
- Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture, per unit of GDP 0 metric tons per US$ of GDP (2023)
- Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture, per capita 0.0005 metric tons per person (2024)
- Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture 30 metric tons (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Greenland?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Greenland was 77.65 0-100 in 2024, 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 Greenland?
- The highest recorded value was 77.65 0-100 in 2024.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Greenland?
- The lowest recorded value was 60.34 0-100 in 2009.
- How does Greenland rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Greenland ranks 23rd out of 205 countries with data for 2024.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Greenland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 27.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Greenland 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.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 16 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).
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).