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Government Effectiveness (standard error) by country

See definition GV.GOVT.EF.ES. Inherent to all Governance Indicators is a margin of error, which might vary from country to country, normally attributable to two factors: (i) cross-country differences in the number of sources in which a country appears, and (ii) differences in the precision of the sources in which...

Countries reporting
53
Highest
0.2551 standard error
Comoros
Lowest
0.1726 standard error
South Africa
Median
0.1899 standard error
Years covered
16
1996–2011
Data points
688

What the numbers show

Government Effectiveness (standard error) is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 0.2551 standard error in Comoros; the lowest is 0.1726 standard error in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1899 standard error, and the mean is 0.1941 standard error.

Over the past decade 1 countries rose and 52 fell. The largest increase was in Equatorial Guinea (up 1.6%), and the largest decrease in Cape Verde (down 46.0%).

Government Effectiveness: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Comoros 0.2551 standard error 2011 down 7.5% falling
2 Seychelles 0.2402 standard error 2011 down 12.9% falling
3 Guinea-Bissau 0.2318 standard error 2011 down 5.7% falling
4 Sao Tome and Principe 0.2285 standard error 2011 down 17.2% falling
4 Equatorial Guinea 0.2285 standard error 2011 up 1.6% flat
6 Djibouti 0.226 standard error 2011 down 18.1% falling
7 Somalia 0.2232 standard error 2011 down 13.8% falling
8 Eritrea 0.2177 standard error 2011 down 21.1% falling
9 Eswatini 0.2104 standard error 2011 down 23.7% falling
10 Libya 0.2104 standard error 2011 down 12.4% falling
11 Cape Verde 0.2083 standard error 2011 down 46.0% falling
12 Central African Republic 0.2039 standard error 2011 down 26.1% falling
13 Burundi 0.2002 standard error 2011 down 27.4% falling
13 Rwanda 0.2002 standard error 2011 down 27.4% falling
15 Lesotho 0.2001 standard error 2011 down 27.5% falling
16 Sierra Leone 0.1992 standard error 2011 down 18.9% falling
16 Guinea 0.1992 standard error 2011 down 18.9% falling
18 Gabon 0.1986 standard error 2011 down 4.4% falling
19 Liberia 0.1974 standard error 2011 down 19.7% falling
20 Gambia 0.1951 standard error 2011 down 20.6% falling
21 Mauritius 0.1907 standard error 2011 down 22.0% falling
21 Mauritania 0.1907 standard error 2011 down 30.9% falling
21 Chad 0.1907 standard error 2011 down 30.9% falling
24 Congo 0.1899 standard error 2011 down 22.7% falling
24 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.1899 standard error 2011 down 22.7% falling
24 Morocco 0.1899 standard error 2011 down 8.6% falling
24 Niger 0.1899 standard error 2011 down 22.7% falling
24 Togo 0.1899 standard error 2011 down 22.7% falling
24 Sudan 0.1899 standard error 2011 down 8.6% falling
30 Benin 0.1892 standard error 2011 down 31.4% falling
31 Malawi 0.1854 standard error 2011 down 10.7% falling
32 Algeria 0.1846 standard error 2011 down 11.1% falling
33 Namibia 0.1832 standard error 2011 down 11.8% falling
34 Ethiopia 0.1791 standard error 2011 down 13.8% falling
34 Cameroon 0.1791 standard error 2011 down 13.8% falling
34 Cote d'Ivoire 0.1791 standard error 2011 down 13.8% falling
34 Tunisia 0.1791 standard error 2011 down 13.8% falling
34 Angola 0.1791 standard error 2011 down 13.8% falling
34 Egypt 0.1791 standard error 2011 down 7.7% falling
40 Nigeria 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 8.3% falling
40 Mozambique 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 14.4% falling
40 Senegal 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 14.4% falling
40 Mali 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 27.6% falling
40 Madagascar 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 27.6% falling
40 Botswana 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 14.4% falling
40 Burkina Faso 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 27.6% falling
40 Kenya 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 14.4% falling
40 Ghana 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 14.4% falling
40 Tanzania 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 14.4% falling
40 Uganda 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 14.4% falling
40 Zambia 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 14.4% falling
40 Zimbabwe 0.1779 standard error 2011 down 8.3% falling
53 South Africa 0.1726 standard error 2011 down 6.5% falling

About this data

Indicator
Government Effectiveness (standard error)
Unit
standard error
Source
World Bank Institute
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
53 places, 688 data points, 1996–2011
Last refreshed

See definition GV.GOVT.EF.ES. Inherent to all Governance Indicators is a margin of error, which might vary from country to country, normally attributable to two factors: (i) cross-country differences in the number of sources in which a country appears, and (ii) differences in the precision of the sources in which each country appears.