Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) was 28.71 0-100 in 2025. ▲ Rising
Government Effectiveness - Governance score in Turkmenistan, 1996–2025
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
Turkmenistan recorded 28.71 0-100 for government effectiveness - governance score in 2025.
The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and down 21.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - governance score in Turkmenistan peaked at 39.8 0-100 in 2023 and was at its lowest, 14.99 0-100, in 2005.
That places Turkmenistan 185th out of 206 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom 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 Turkmenistan, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 24.67 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 24.4 0-100 | -1.1% |
| 2000 | 24.38 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 15.42 0-100 | -36.7% |
| 2003 | 15.37 0-100 | -0.3% |
| 2004 | 21.22 0-100 | +38.0% |
| 2005 | 14.99 0-100 | -29.3% |
| 2006 | 19.65 0-100 | +31.1% |
| 2007 | 19.67 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 21.48 0-100 | +9.2% |
| 2009 | 21.5 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 16.83 0-100 | -21.7% |
| 2011 | 16.82 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 23.68 0-100 | +40.8% |
| 2013 | 23.32 0-100 | -1.5% |
| 2014 | 36.38 0-100 | +56.0% |
| 2015 | 36.33 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 33.06 0-100 | -9.0% |
| 2017 | 31.47 0-100 | -4.8% |
| 2018 | 30.84 0-100 | -2.0% |
| 2019 | 32.61 0-100 | +5.7% |
| 2020 | 29.62 0-100 | -9.2% |
| 2021 | 29.63 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 39.8 0-100 | +34.3% |
| 2023 | 39.8 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 28.64 0-100 | -28.0% |
| 2025 | 28.71 0-100 | +0.2% |
Turkmenistan compared with similar countries
- Turkmenistan's 28.71 0-100 is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 51.87 0-100, 55% of the median. (59 countries reporting)
- Turkmenistan's 28.71 0-100 is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 69.35 0-100, 41% of the median. (54 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) in Turkmenistan changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | +56.0% | 23.32 0-100 | 36.38 0-100 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 24.53 0-100 | 24.4 0-100 | 24.67 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 19.3 0-100 | 14.99 0-100 | 24.38 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 28.14 0-100 | 16.82 0-100 | 36.38 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 32.7 0-100 | 28.64 0-100 | 39.8 0-100 | 6 |
Countries ranked near Turkmenistan
More reference data data for Turkmenistan
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 0.6549 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 1.75 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 2.51 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.1077 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Agricultural Soils 2.51 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 2.2 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure Management 1.76 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 6.69 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 11.25 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.5864 (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - governance score in Turkmenistan?
- Government effectiveness - governance score in Turkmenistan was 28.71 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 Turkmenistan?
- The highest recorded value was 39.8 0-100 in 2023.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - governance score recorded in Turkmenistan?
- The lowest recorded value was 14.99 0-100 in 2005.
- How does Turkmenistan rank for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Turkmenistan ranks 185th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is government effectiveness - governance score rising or falling in Turkmenistan?
- Over the last ten years it is down 21.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Turkmenistan 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).