Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Maldives
Maldives: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) was 47.41 0-100 in 2025. ▼ Falling
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Maldives, 1996–2025
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
Maldives recorded 47.41 0-100 for government effectiveness - governance score in 2025.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 0.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Maldives peaked at 67.18 0-100 in 1996 and was at its lowest, 46.01 0-100, in 2017.
That places Maldives 130th out of 206 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 27 years of available data.
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Maldives, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 67.18 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 66.9 0-100 | -0.4% |
| 2000 | 66.89 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2002 | 67.03 0-100 | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 66.95 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2004 | 55.11 0-100 | -17.7% |
| 2005 | 51.59 0-100 | -6.4% |
| 2006 | 51.57 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2007 | 51.59 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 49.41 0-100 | -4.2% |
| 2009 | 48.66 0-100 | -1.5% |
| 2010 | 51.89 0-100 | +6.6% |
| 2011 | 50.03 0-100 | -3.6% |
| 2012 | 51.25 0-100 | +2.4% |
| 2013 | 50.03 0-100 | -2.4% |
| 2014 | 48.62 0-100 | -2.8% |
| 2015 | 47.38 0-100 | -2.5% |
| 2016 | 50.92 0-100 | +7.5% |
| 2017 | 46.01 0-100 | -9.6% |
| 2018 | 46.03 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 52.48 0-100 | +14.0% |
| 2020 | 50.2 0-100 | -4.3% |
| 2021 | 55.12 0-100 | +9.8% |
| 2022 | 47.33 0-100 | -14.1% |
| 2023 | 47.33 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 47.33 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 47.41 0-100 | +0.2% |
Maldives compared with similar countries
- Maldives's 47.41 0-100 is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 51.87 0-100, 91% of the median. (59 countries reporting)
- Maldives's 47.41 0-100 is below the median for South Asia, which is 48.56 0-100, 98% of the median. (6 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 67.04 0-100 | 66.9 0-100 | 67.18 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 56.53 0-100 | 48.66 0-100 | 67.03 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 49.46 0-100 | 46.01 0-100 | 52.48 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 49.12 0-100 | 47.33 0-100 | 55.12 0-100 | 6 |
Countries ranked near Maldives
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Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Maldives?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Maldives was 47.41 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 Maldives?
- The highest recorded value was 67.18 0-100 in 1996.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Maldives?
- The lowest recorded value was 46.01 0-100 in 2017.
- How does Maldives rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Maldives ranks 130th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Maldives?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Maldives 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).