Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Panama
Panama: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) was 56.78 0-100 in 2025. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Panama, 1996–2025
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
Panama recorded 56.78 0-100 for government effectiveness - governance score in 2025.
The figure is down 1.2% on the previous year and down 5.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Panama peaked at 62.62 0-100 in 2019 and was at its lowest, 42.38 0-100, in 1996.
Panama ranks 86th 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 Panama, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 42.38 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 52.92 0-100 | +24.9% |
| 2000 | 49.99 0-100 | -5.5% |
| 2002 | 47 0-100 | -6.0% |
| 2003 | 46.31 0-100 | -1.5% |
| 2004 | 48.94 0-100 | +5.7% |
| 2005 | 49.39 0-100 | +0.9% |
| 2006 | 50.65 0-100 | +2.6% |
| 2007 | 52.47 0-100 | +3.6% |
| 2008 | 56.4 0-100 | +7.5% |
| 2009 | 57.63 0-100 | +2.2% |
| 2010 | 57.78 0-100 | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 57.45 0-100 | -0.6% |
| 2012 | 59.2 0-100 | +3.1% |
| 2013 | 58.88 0-100 | -0.5% |
| 2014 | 59.21 0-100 | +0.6% |
| 2015 | 59.95 0-100 | +1.2% |
| 2016 | 61.36 0-100 | +2.4% |
| 2017 | 60.8 0-100 | -0.9% |
| 2018 | 59.64 0-100 | -1.9% |
| 2019 | 62.62 0-100 | +5.0% |
| 2020 | 60.66 0-100 | -3.1% |
| 2021 | 59.63 0-100 | -1.7% |
| 2022 | 56.29 0-100 | -5.6% |
| 2023 | 54.82 0-100 | -2.6% |
| 2024 | 57.47 0-100 | +4.8% |
| 2025 | 56.78 0-100 | -1.2% |
Panama compared with similar countries
- Panama's 56.78 0-100 is below the median for high income countries, which is 73.88 0-100, 77% of the median. (74 countries reporting)
- Panama's 56.78 0-100 is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 53.22 0-100, 1.1× the median. (37 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 47.65 0-100 | 42.38 0-100 | 52.92 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 50.97 0-100 | 46.31 0-100 | 57.63 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 59.69 0-100 | 57.45 0-100 | 62.62 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 57.61 0-100 | 54.82 0-100 | 60.66 0-100 | 6 |
Countries ranked near Panama
- 83 Senegal 57.47 0-100 compare
- 84 Trinidad and Tobago 57.14 0-100 compare
- 85 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 56.89 0-100 compare
- 87 Moldova 56.73 0-100 compare
- 88 Samoa 56.49 0-100 compare
- 89 North Macedonia 56.37 0-100 compare
More reference data data for Panama
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 0.1446 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 0.6179 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.9793 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.0285 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Agricultural Soils 0.9793 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 0.4849 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure Management 0.2267 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 3.44 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 5.08 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.1553 (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Panama?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Panama was 56.78 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 Panama?
- The highest recorded value was 62.62 0-100 in 2019.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Panama?
- The lowest recorded value was 42.38 0-100 in 1996.
- How does Panama rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Panama ranks 86th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Panama?
- Over the last ten years it is down 5.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Panama 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).