Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Palau
Palau: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) was 54.47 0-100 in 2025. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Palau, 2008–2025
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 Palau stood at 54.47 0-100. That is the highest value across all 18 years on record.
That represents a change of up 5.9% on the previous year and up 19.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Palau peaked at 54.47 0-100 in 2025 and was at its lowest, 41.35 0-100, in 2010.
Palau ranks 100th of 206 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 18 years of available data.
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Palau, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 43.71 0-100 | — |
| 2009 | 43.9 0-100 | +0.4% |
| 2010 | 41.35 0-100 | -5.8% |
| 2011 | 46.49 0-100 | +12.4% |
| 2012 | 46.5 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 46.46 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 48.05 0-100 | +3.4% |
| 2015 | 45.41 0-100 | -5.5% |
| 2016 | 45.44 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 45.43 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2018 | 52.14 0-100 | +14.8% |
| 2019 | 52.2 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 51.39 0-100 | -1.5% |
| 2021 | 51.42 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 50.81 0-100 | -1.2% |
| 2023 | 50.81 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 51.42 0-100 | +1.2% |
| 2025 | 54.47 0-100 | +5.9% |
Palau compared with similar countries
- Palau's 54.47 0-100 is below the median for high income countries, which is 73.88 0-100, 74% of the median. (74 countries reporting)
- Palau's 54.47 0-100 is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 56.14 0-100, 97% of the median. (34 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 43.81 0-100 | 43.71 0-100 | 43.9 0-100 | 2 |
| 2010s | 46.95 0-100 | 41.35 0-100 | 52.2 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 51.72 0-100 | 50.81 0-100 | 54.47 0-100 | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Palau?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Palau was 54.47 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 Palau?
- The highest recorded value was 54.47 0-100 in 2025.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Palau?
- The lowest recorded value was 41.35 0-100 in 2010.
- How does Palau rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Palau ranks 100th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Palau?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Palau 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).