Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Japan
Japan: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) was 94.12 0-100 in 2025. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Japan, 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 Japan stood at 94.12 0-100.
That represents a change of down 0.6% on the previous year and up 7.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Japan peaked at 94.67 0-100 in 2024 and was at its lowest, 75.55 0-100, in 1996.
Japan ranks 2nd of 206 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 27 years of available data.
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Japan, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 75.55 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 76.77 0-100 | +1.6% |
| 2000 | 80.63 0-100 | +5.0% |
| 2002 | 78.98 0-100 | -2.0% |
| 2003 | 78.85 0-100 | -0.2% |
| 2004 | 79.07 0-100 | +0.3% |
| 2005 | 80.8 0-100 | +2.2% |
| 2006 | 81.69 0-100 | +1.1% |
| 2007 | 78.71 0-100 | -3.7% |
| 2008 | 79.57 0-100 | +1.1% |
| 2009 | 80.19 0-100 | +0.8% |
| 2010 | 80.29 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 80.31 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 79.96 0-100 | -0.4% |
| 2013 | 82.36 0-100 | +3.0% |
| 2014 | 88.42 0-100 | +7.3% |
| 2015 | 87.25 0-100 | -1.3% |
| 2016 | 89.34 0-100 | +2.4% |
| 2017 | 87.36 0-100 | -2.2% |
| 2018 | 89.53 0-100 | +2.5% |
| 2019 | 89.76 0-100 | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 90.58 0-100 | +0.9% |
| 2021 | 88.03 0-100 | -2.8% |
| 2022 | 94.35 0-100 | +7.2% |
| 2023 | 93.85 0-100 | -0.5% |
| 2024 | 94.67 0-100 | +0.9% |
| 2025 | 94.12 0-100 | -0.6% |
Japan compared with similar countries
- Japan's 94.12 0-100 is above the median for high income countries, which is 73.88 0-100, 1.3× the median. (74 countries reporting)
- Japan's 94.12 0-100 is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 56.14 0-100, 1.7× the median. (34 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 76.16 0-100 | 75.55 0-100 | 76.77 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 79.83 0-100 | 78.71 0-100 | 81.69 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 85.46 0-100 | 79.96 0-100 | 89.76 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 92.6 0-100 | 88.03 0-100 | 94.67 0-100 | 6 |
Countries ranked near Japan
- 1 Singapore 95.17 0-100 compare
- 3 Luxembourg 92.81 0-100 compare
- 4 Switzerland 92.64 0-100 compare
- 5 Denmark 92.44 0-100 compare
More reference data data for Japan
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 1.19 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 0.981 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 4.49 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.3629 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Agricultural Soils 4.49 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 3.98 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure Management 4.16 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 5.57 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 23.74 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 1.98 (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Japan?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Japan was 94.12 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 Japan?
- The highest recorded value was 94.67 0-100 in 2024.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Japan?
- The lowest recorded value was 75.55 0-100 in 1996.
- How does Japan rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Japan ranks 2nd out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Japan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Japan 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).