Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Government Effectiveness - Governance score was 46 0-100 in 2024. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Sri Lanka, 1996–2024
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
The most recent figure for government effectiveness - governance score in Sri Lanka is 46 0-100, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and down 14.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Sri Lanka peaked at 54.06 0-100 in 2014 and was at its lowest, 39.53 0-100, in 1998.
Sri Lanka ranks 126th of 204 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 42.49 0-100 | 39.53 0-100 | 45.45 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 45.63 0-100 | 41.82 0-100 | 49.48 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 49.95 0-100 | 47.73 0-100 | 54.06 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 45.85 0-100 | 41.54 0-100 | 49.13 0-100 | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Sri Lanka?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Sri Lanka was 46 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 Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 54.06 0-100 in 2014.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 39.53 0-100 in 1998.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Sri Lanka ranks 126th out of 204 countries with data for 2024.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is down 14.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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).