Government Effectiveness - Standard error of the governance estimate in Greenland
Greenland: Government Effectiveness - Standard error of the governance estimate was 0.3914 in 2025. ▼ Falling
Government Effectiveness - Standard error of the governance estimate in Greenland, 2009–2025
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Greenland recorded 0.3914 for government effectiveness - standard error of the governance estimate in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of down 13.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government effectiveness - standard error of the governance estimate in Greenland peaked at 0.4532 in 2009 and was at its lowest, 0.3914, in 2022.
Greenland ranks 9th of 206 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 17 years of available data.
Government Effectiveness - Standard error of the governance estimate in Greenland, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 0.4532 | — |
| 2010 | 0.4532 | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 0.4532 | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 0.4532 | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 0.4532 | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 0.4532 | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 0.4532 | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.4532 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.4532 | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.4532 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.4532 | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.4532 | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.4532 | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.3914 | -13.6% |
| 2023 | 0.3914 | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.3914 | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.3914 | +0.0% |
Greenland compared with similar countries
- Greenland's 0.3914 is above the median for high income countries, which is 0.2317, 1.7× the median. (74 countries reporting)
- Greenland's 0.3914 is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 0.2195, 1.8× the median. (54 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.4532 | 0.4532 | 0.4532 | 1 |
| 2010s | 0.4532 | 0.4532 | 0.4532 | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.412 | 0.3914 | 0.4532 | 6 |
Countries ranked near Greenland
More reference data data for Greenland
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0004 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.2128 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.1141 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0041 (2019)
- Country level monthly temperature anomalies 5.41 (2026)
- Spring temperature anomalies -0.3783 (2026)
- Autumn temperature anomalies -1.66 (2026)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0986 (2019)
- Summer temperature anomalies 0.7088 (2026)
- Official exchange rate, LCU per USD, period average 6.82 (2017)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government effectiveness - standard error of the governance estimate in Greenland?
- Government effectiveness - standard error of the governance estimate in Greenland was 0.3914 in 2025, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest government effectiveness - standard error of the governance estimate recorded in Greenland?
- The highest recorded value was 0.4532 in 2009.
- What is the lowest government effectiveness - standard error of the governance estimate recorded in Greenland?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.3914 in 2022.
- How does Greenland rank for government effectiveness - standard error of the governance estimate?
- Greenland ranks 9th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is government effectiveness - standard error of the governance estimate rising or falling in Greenland?
- Over the last ten years it is down 13.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Greenland data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Government Effectiveness - Standard error of the governance estimate. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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