Government Effectiveness: Lower bound of the 90% confidence in Haiti
Haiti: Government Effectiveness: Lower bound of the 90% confidence was 2.9% in 2025. ▼ Falling
Government Effectiveness - Lower bound of the 90% confidence interval in Haiti, 1996–2025
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
In 2025, government effectiveness - lower bound of the 90% confidence interval in Haiti stood at 2.9%. That is the lowest value across all 27 years on record.
That represents a change of down 7.3% on the previous year and down 67.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - lower bound of the 90% confidence interval in Haiti peaked at 17.7% in 2008 and was at its lowest, 2.9%, in 2025.
That places Haiti 205th out of 206 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 27 years of available data.
Government Effectiveness: Lower bound of the 90% confidence in Haiti, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 10.8% | — |
| 1998 | 10.6% | -1.6% |
| 2000 | 10.6% | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 6.1% | -42.4% |
| 2003 | 6.2% | +1.6% |
| 2004 | 6.3% | +0.8% |
| 2005 | 11.3% | +81.1% |
| 2006 | 11.4% | +0.5% |
| 2007 | 11.4% | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 17.7% | +54.9% |
| 2009 | 17.5% | -0.8% |
| 2010 | 13.0% | -25.8% |
| 2011 | 13.5% | +3.8% |
| 2012 | 14.1% | +4.9% |
| 2013 | 15.5% | +9.5% |
| 2014 | 7.7% | -50.1% |
| 2015 | 8.8% | +13.8% |
| 2016 | 8.5% | -2.8% |
| 2017 | 8.4% | -1.5% |
| 2018 | 11.8% | +39.6% |
| 2019 | 8.5% | -27.5% |
| 2020 | 7.6% | -10.3% |
| 2021 | 3.4% | -55.4% |
| 2022 | 4.5% | +31.1% |
| 2023 | 4.5% | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 3.1% | -31.2% |
| 2025 | 2.9% | -7.3% |
Haiti compared with similar countries
- Haiti's 2.9% is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 32.3%, 9% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
- Haiti's 2.9% is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 44.2%, 6% of the median. (37 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Government Effectiveness: Lower bound of the 90% confidence in Haiti 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | +81.1% | 6.3% | 11.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 10.7% | 10.6% | 10.8% | 2 |
| 2000s | 10.9% | 6.1% | 17.7% | 9 |
| 2010s | 11.0% | 7.7% | 15.5% | 10 |
| 2020s | 4.3% | 2.9% | 7.6% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Haiti
- 202 Yemen 6.5% compare
- 203 Sudan 5.9% compare
- 204 Afghanistan 3.9% compare
- 206 South Sudan 0.0% compare
More reference data data for Haiti
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 0.2934 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 1.01 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 1.35 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.0485 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Agricultural Soils 1.35 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 0.9837 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure Management 0.6522 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 4.73 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 6.65 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.2643 (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - lower bound of the 90% confidence interval in Haiti?
- Government effectiveness - lower bound of the 90% confidence interval in Haiti was 2.9% in 2025, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest government effectiveness - lower bound of the 90% confidence interval recorded in Haiti?
- The highest recorded value was 17.7% in 2008.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - lower bound of the 90% confidence interval recorded in Haiti?
- The lowest recorded value was 2.9% in 2025.
- How does Haiti rank for government effectiveness - lower bound of the 90% confidence interval?
- Haiti ranks 205th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is government effectiveness - lower bound of the 90% confidence interval rising or falling in Haiti?
- Over the last ten years it is down 67.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Haiti data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Government Effectiveness - Lower bound of the 90% confidence interval for the governance score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 27 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).