Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in India
India: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) was 62.62 0-100 in 2025. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in India, 1996–2025
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
The most recent figure for government effectiveness - governance score in India is 62.62 0-100, measured in 2025.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 0.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in India peaked at 63.71 0-100 in 2019 and was at its lowest, 40.86 0-100, in 2000.
India ranks 64th 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 India, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 46.31 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 42.66 0-100 | -7.9% |
| 2000 | 40.86 0-100 | -4.2% |
| 2002 | 42.5 0-100 | +4.0% |
| 2003 | 43.49 0-100 | +2.3% |
| 2004 | 48.08 0-100 | +10.5% |
| 2005 | 48.66 0-100 | +1.2% |
| 2006 | 49.65 0-100 | +2.0% |
| 2007 | 51.64 0-100 | +4.0% |
| 2008 | 53.63 0-100 | +3.9% |
| 2009 | 54.84 0-100 | +2.2% |
| 2010 | 54.66 0-100 | -0.3% |
| 2011 | 54.54 0-100 | -0.2% |
| 2012 | 54.25 0-100 | -0.5% |
| 2013 | 54.54 0-100 | +0.5% |
| 2014 | 55.46 0-100 | +1.7% |
| 2015 | 62.18 0-100 | +12.1% |
| 2016 | 62.01 0-100 | -0.3% |
| 2017 | 61.03 0-100 | -1.6% |
| 2018 | 63.64 0-100 | +4.3% |
| 2019 | 63.71 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 61.65 0-100 | -3.2% |
| 2021 | 59.69 0-100 | -3.2% |
| 2022 | 61.33 0-100 | +2.8% |
| 2023 | 62.75 0-100 | +2.3% |
| 2024 | 62.74 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2025 | 62.62 0-100 | -0.2% |
India compared with similar countries
- India's 62.62 0-100 is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 39.25 0-100, 1.6× the median. (47 countries reporting)
- India's 62.62 0-100 is above the median for South Asia, which is 48.56 0-100, 1.3× the median. (6 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 44.48 0-100 | 42.66 0-100 | 46.31 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 48.15 0-100 | 40.86 0-100 | 54.84 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 58.6 0-100 | 54.25 0-100 | 63.71 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 61.8 0-100 | 59.69 0-100 | 62.75 0-100 | 6 |
Countries ranked near India
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Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in India?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in India was 62.62 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 India?
- The highest recorded value was 63.71 0-100 in 2019.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 40.86 0-100 in 2000.
- How does India rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- India ranks 64th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this India 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).