Government Effectiveness - Governance score in New Zealand

New Zealand: Government Effectiveness - Governance score was 87.3 0-100 in 2024. ▼ Falling

Latest (2024)
87.3 0-100
Change on year
up 2.8%
World rank
5th
of 204 countries
All-time high
90.95 0-100
in 2002
All-time low
82.51 0-100
in 2021
Years of data
26
1996–2024

Government Effectiveness - Governance score in New Zealand, 1996–2024

0204060801001996201020241996: 89.9 0-1001998: 88.1 0-1002000: 86 0-1002002: 90.9 0-1002003: 90.3 0-1002004: 86.3 0-1002005: 88.5 0-1002006: 87.2 0-1002007: 86.7 0-1002008: 86.7 0-1002009: 89.6 0-1002010: 86.5 0-1002011: 89.5 0-1002012: 89.7 0-1002013: 89 0-1002014: 90.9 0-1002015: 89.3 0-1002016: 86.8 0-1002017: 86.1 0-1002018: 84.5 0-1002019: 84.1 0-1002020: 84.2 0-1002021: 82.5 0-1002022: 83.5 0-1002023: 84.9 0-1002024: 87.3 0-100

Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.

Analysis

New Zealand recorded 87.3 0-100 for government effectiveness - governance score in 2024.

The figure is up 2.8% on the previous year and down 3.9% over ten years.

Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in New Zealand peaked at 90.95 0-100 in 2002 and was at its lowest, 82.51 0-100, in 2021.

That places New Zealand 5th out of 204 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 26 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 89.03 0-100 88.13 0-100 89.93 0-100 2
2000s 88.02 0-100 85.95 0-100 90.95 0-100 9
2010s 87.62 0-100 84.08 0-100 90.88 0-100 10
2020s 84.5 0-100 82.51 0-100 87.3 0-100 5

Countries ranked near New Zealand

  1. 2 Japan 91.94 0-100 compare
  2. 3 Luxembourg 91 0-100 compare
  3. 4 Denmark 88.53 0-100 compare
  4. 6 Norway 87.18 0-100 compare
  5. 7 Switzerland 87.12 0-100 compare
  6. 8 Finland 86.67 0-100 compare

See the full ranking of 204 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is government effectiveness - governance score in New Zealand?
Government effectiveness - governance score in New Zealand was 87.3 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 New Zealand?
The highest recorded value was 90.95 0-100 in 2002.
What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in New Zealand?
The lowest recorded value was 82.51 0-100 in 2021.
How does New Zealand rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
New Zealand ranks 5th out of 204 countries with data for 2024.
Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in New Zealand?
Over the last ten years it is down 3.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this New Zealand 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

Indicator
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100)
Unit
0-100
Source
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
204 places, 5,142 data points, 1996–2024
Last refreshed

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).