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Political Stability/No Violence (standard error) by country

See definition GV.POLI.ST.SD. 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
0.3928 standard error
Comoros
Lowest
0.2404 standard error
South Africa
Median
0.2491 standard error
Years covered
16
1996–2011
Data points
689

What the numbers show

Political Stability/No Violence (standard error) is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 0.3928 standard error in Comoros; the lowest is 0.2404 standard error in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.2491 standard error, and the mean is 0.2626 standard error.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Political Stability/No Violence: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Comoros 0.3928 standard error 2011 down 15.6% falling
2 Guinea-Bissau 0.3525 standard error 2011 down 12.4% falling
3 Sao Tome and Principe 0.3253 standard error 2011 down 30.1% falling
4 Lesotho 0.3119 standard error 2011 down 33.0% falling
4 Cape Verde 0.3119 standard error 2011 down 49.6% falling
6 Gambia 0.2905 standard error 2011 down 27.8% falling
7 Mauritius 0.2842 standard error 2011 down 33.8% falling
8 Seychelles 0.2835 standard error 2011 down 39.1% falling
8 Equatorial Guinea 0.2835 standard error 2011 down 22.7% falling
8 Djibouti 0.2835 standard error 2011 down 39.1% falling
8 Eritrea 0.2835 standard error 2011 down 39.1% falling
12 Burundi 0.2745 standard error 2011 down 41.0% falling
12 Eswatini 0.2745 standard error 2011 down 41.0% falling
12 Rwanda 0.2745 standard error 2011 down 41.0% falling
15 Sierra Leone 0.2672 standard error 2011 down 33.6% falling
15 Somalia 0.2672 standard error 2011 down 33.6% falling
15 Guinea 0.2672 standard error 2011 down 33.6% falling
15 Liberia 0.2672 standard error 2011 down 33.6% falling
19 Central African Republic 0.2622 standard error 2011 down 43.6% falling
20 Malawi 0.2596 standard error 2011 down 22.1% falling
21 Mauritania 0.255 standard error 2011 down 45.2% falling
21 Benin 0.255 standard error 2011 down 45.2% falling
21 Chad 0.255 standard error 2011 down 45.2% falling
24 Togo 0.2491 standard error 2011 down 38.1% falling
24 Sudan 0.2491 standard error 2011 down 25.3% falling
24 Niger 0.2491 standard error 2011 down 38.1% falling
24 Morocco 0.2491 standard error 2011 down 25.3% falling
24 Libya 0.2491 standard error 2011 down 25.3% falling
24 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.2491 standard error 2011 down 38.1% falling
24 Congo 0.2491 standard error 2011 down 38.1% falling
24 Gabon 0.2491 standard error 2011 down 25.3% falling
32 Zimbabwe 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Angola 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Tunisia 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Tanzania 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Burkina Faso 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 39.6% falling
32 Uganda 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Zambia 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Egypt 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Senegal 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Botswana 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Nigeria 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Namibia 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Mozambique 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Mali 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 39.6% falling
32 Madagascar 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 39.6% falling
32 Cote d'Ivoire 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Kenya 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Cameroon 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Ghana 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Ethiopia 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
32 Algeria 0.2429 standard error 2011 down 27.1% falling
53 South Africa 0.2404 standard error 2011 down 20.8% falling

About this data

Indicator
Political Stability/No Violence (standard error)
Unit
standard error
Source
World Bank Institute
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
53 places, 689 data points, 1996–2011
Last refreshed

See definition GV.POLI.ST.SD. 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.