Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Qatar
Qatar: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) was 72.73 0-100 in 2025. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Qatar, 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 Qatar stood at 72.73 0-100.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 3.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Qatar peaked at 73.87 0-100 in 2022 and was at its lowest, 55.8 0-100, in 2000.
That places Qatar 40th out of 206 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 27 years of available data.
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Qatar, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 55.92 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 55.81 0-100 | -0.2% |
| 2000 | 55.8 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2002 | 57.44 0-100 | +2.9% |
| 2003 | 57.42 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2004 | 56.84 0-100 | -1.0% |
| 2005 | 56.31 0-100 | -0.9% |
| 2006 | 59.5 0-100 | +5.7% |
| 2007 | 64.19 0-100 | +7.9% |
| 2008 | 64.19 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2009 | 69.86 0-100 | +8.8% |
| 2010 | 68.4 0-100 | -2.1% |
| 2011 | 69.82 0-100 | +2.1% |
| 2012 | 70.12 0-100 | +0.4% |
| 2013 | 72.21 0-100 | +3.0% |
| 2014 | 69.27 0-100 | -4.1% |
| 2015 | 70.15 0-100 | +1.3% |
| 2016 | 70.41 0-100 | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 69.49 0-100 | -1.3% |
| 2018 | 66.52 0-100 | -4.3% |
| 2019 | 69 0-100 | +3.7% |
| 2020 | 69.37 0-100 | +0.5% |
| 2021 | 72.37 0-100 | +4.3% |
| 2022 | 73.87 0-100 | +2.1% |
| 2023 | 73.03 0-100 | -1.1% |
| 2024 | 72.46 0-100 | -0.8% |
| 2025 | 72.73 0-100 | +0.4% |
Qatar compared with similar countries
- Qatar's 72.73 0-100 is below the median for high income countries, which is 73.88 0-100, 98% of the median. (74 countries reporting)
- Qatar's 72.73 0-100 is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 48.39 0-100, 1.5× the median. (23 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 55.87 0-100 | 55.81 0-100 | 55.92 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 60.17 0-100 | 55.8 0-100 | 69.86 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 69.54 0-100 | 66.52 0-100 | 72.21 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 72.3 0-100 | 69.37 0-100 | 73.87 0-100 | 6 |
Countries ranked near Qatar
More reference data data for Qatar
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 0.0059 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 0.0397 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0493 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.0003 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Agricultural Soils 0.0493 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 0.0199 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure Management 0.0071 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 0.1746 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.2166 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.0017 (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Qatar?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Qatar was 72.73 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 Qatar?
- The highest recorded value was 73.87 0-100 in 2022.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Qatar?
- The lowest recorded value was 55.8 0-100 in 2000.
- How does Qatar rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Qatar ranks 40th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Qatar?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Qatar 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).