Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) by country
Regulatory Quality (RQ) captures perceptions of the government’s ability to design and implement policies and regulations that promote private sector development. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score...
Countries reporting
205
Highest
88.49 0-100
Singapore
Lowest
22.76 0-100
Eritrea
Median
53.35 0-100
Years covered
29
1996–2024
Data points
5,160
What the numbers show
Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) is currently reported for 205 countries. The highest value is 88.49 0-100 in Singapore; the lowest is 22.76 0-100 in Eritrea.
The median across all reporting countries is 53.35 0-100, and the mean is 54.4 0-100.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4.
Over the past decade 106 countries rose and 99 fell. The largest increase was in Uzbekistan (up 46.7%), and the largest decrease in Yemen (down 25.1%).
Regulatory Quality - Governance score: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore | 88.49 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 2 | Finland | 85.83 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.6% | flat |
| 3 | Denmark | 85.31 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.2% | flat |
| 4 | New Zealand | 83.95 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.1% | flat |
| 5 | Luxembourg | 83.86 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.0% | flat |
| 6 | Ireland | 83.16 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.7% | flat |
| 7 | Switzerland | 82.79 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.7% | flat |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 82.3 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.6% | flat |
| 9 | Australia | 82.03 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 10 | Netherlands | 82.02 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.1% | flat |
| 11 | Sweden | 81.23 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.0% | rising |
| 12 | Norway | 81.21 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 13 | Liechtenstein | 79.09 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 14 | United Kingdom | 78.7 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.3% | falling |
| 15 | Greenland | 78.58 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 16 | Germany | 78.49 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 17 | Estonia | 76.91 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.4% | rising |
| 18 | Macao | 76.49 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.4% | rising |
| 19 | Canada | 76.35 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.2% | flat |
| 20 | United States | 76.19 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.4% | falling |
| 21 | Austria | 76.17 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 22 | Iceland | 75.84 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.8% | flat |
| 23 | Japan | 75.83 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 24 | Lithuania | 75.23 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 25 | Belgium | 74.48 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.0% | flat |
| 26 | Czechia | 74.29 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 27 | France | 72.94 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.5% | flat |
| 28 | United Arab Emirates | 72.62 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 29 | Israel | 72.43 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.7% | rising |
| 30 | Monaco | 72.25 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.9% | flat |
| 30 | United States Virgin Islands | 72.25 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.8% | flat |
| 32 | Latvia | 72.21 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 33 | Cayman Islands | 71.82 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.5% | falling |
| 34 | South Korea | 70.85 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 35 | Aruba | 70.33 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.6% | flat |
| 36 | Qatar | 70.1 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 37 | Bahrain | 69.85 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.9% | flat |
| 38 | Mauritius | 69.69 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.3% | rising |
| 39 | Brunei | 68.85 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.8% | flat |
| 40 | San Marino | 68.51 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 41 | Slovenia | 67.45 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.4% | flat |
| 42 | Chile | 67.18 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.3% | falling |
| 43 | Portugal | 66.54 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.5% | falling |
| 44 | Cyprus | 66.53 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.6% | falling |
| 45 | Saudi Arabia | 66.06 0-100 | 2024 | up 14.0% | rising |
| 46 | Oman | 65.71 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.1% | rising |
| 47 | Poland | 65.68 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.1% | flat |
| 48 | Malaysia | 65.59 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.6% | rising |
| 49 | Puerto Rico | 65.16 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.3% | falling |
| 50 | Georgia | 65.11 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.9% | rising |
| 51 | Uruguay | 65.06 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 52 | Italy | 64.96 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.8% | falling |
| 53 | Antigua and Barbuda | 64.87 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.5% | flat |
| 54 | Bermuda | 64.78 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.2% | falling |
| 55 | Spain | 64.65 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.8% | falling |
| 56 | Costa Rica | 64.04 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.4% | flat |
| 57 | Malta | 62.62 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.8% | falling |
| 58 | Palau | 62.45 0-100 | 2024 | up 33.8% | rising |
| 59 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 62.43 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.2% | falling |
| 60 | Greece | 62.43 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.0% | falling |
| 61 | Barbados | 61.81 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.0% | falling |
| 62 | Slovakia | 61.25 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.7% | flat |
| 63 | Kuwait | 61.23 0-100 | 2024 | up 13.7% | rising |
| 64 | Botswana | 61.2 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.6% | falling |
| 65 | American Samoa | 61.04 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.8% | falling |
| 65 | Guam | 61.04 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.8% | falling |
| 67 | Seychelles | 61.01 0-100 | 2024 | up 14.1% | rising |
| 68 | Romania | 60.91 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 69 | Hungary | 60.15 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.6% | falling |
| 70 | Bulgaria | 59.41 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 71 | Croatia | 59.37 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 72 | Jordan | 59.22 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.8% | flat |
| 73 | Rwanda | 59.11 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 74 | North Macedonia | 59.06 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 75 | Dominican Republic | 58.13 0-100 | 2024 | up 10.7% | rising |
| 76 | Saint Lucia | 57.73 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.2% | falling |
| 77 | Armenia | 57.04 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 78 | Albania | 57 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 79 | Namibia | 56.99 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.2% | falling |
| 80 | Azerbaijan | 56.99 0-100 | 2024 | up 12.9% | rising |
| 81 | Montenegro | 56.87 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.8% | rising |
| 82 | Indonesia | 56.83 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 83 | Thailand | 56.54 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.5% | flat |
| 84 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 56.54 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.4% | falling |
| 85 | Jamaica | 56.3 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.0% | flat |
| 86 | Peru | 56.17 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.7% | flat |
| 87 | Philippines | 56.11 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.6% | flat |
| 88 | Serbia | 56.1 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 89 | Fiji | 55.89 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 90 | Dominica | 55.81 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.2% | falling |
| 91 | Grenada | 55.65 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.3% | falling |
| 92 | Kazakhstan | 55.6 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 93 | Cape Verde | 55.57 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 94 | Colombia | 55.07 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.5% | rising |
| 95 | Morocco | 54.44 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 96 | Moldova | 54.13 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 97 | South Africa | 53.91 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.9% | falling |
| 98 | Mongolia | 53.75 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 99 | China | 53.74 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 100 | Panama | 53.7 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.9% | falling |
| 101 | Ghana | 53.45 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 102 | Bhutan | 53.42 0-100 | 2024 | up 23.1% | flat |
| 103 | India | 53.35 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.2% | rising |
| 104 | Samoa | 53.26 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.9% | falling |
| 105 | Bahamas | 53.17 0-100 | 2024 | down 12.1% | falling |
| 106 | Paraguay | 52.64 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.8% | rising |
| 107 | Cote d'Ivoire | 52.23 0-100 | 2024 | up 13.0% | rising |
| 108 | El Salvador | 52.08 0-100 | 2024 | down 10.0% | falling |
| 109 | Tonga | 51.8 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.9% | rising |
| 110 | Mexico | 51.77 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.0% | falling |
| 111 | Trinidad and Tobago | 51.6 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.4% | falling |
| 112 | Turkey | 51.53 0-100 | 2024 | down 15.1% | falling |
| 113 | Kosovo | 51.35 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 113 | Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) | 51.35 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 115 | Argentina | 51.16 0-100 | 2024 | up 31.5% | falling |
| 116 | Maldives | 51.15 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.9% | falling |
| 117 | Senegal | 51.05 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.8% | flat |
| 118 | Vietnam | 50.65 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 119 | Benin | 50.49 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.6% | flat |
| 120 | Brazil | 50.22 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.5% | falling |
| 121 | Sri Lanka | 50.14 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.4% | flat |
| 122 | Ukraine | 50.12 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 123 | Guatemala | 49.98 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.4% | flat |
| 124 | Vanuatu | 49.74 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 125 | Kenya | 49.6 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 126 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 49.35 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.0% | rising |
| 127 | Tunisia | 48.71 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.2% | falling |
| 128 | Tuvalu | 48.52 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.3% | flat |
| 129 | Togo | 48.43 0-100 | 2024 | up 15.9% | rising |
| 130 | Zambia | 48.23 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 131 | Guyana | 47.81 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.5% | falling |
| 132 | Belize | 47.76 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.5% | falling |
| 133 | Palestine | 47.49 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.7% | rising |
| 134 | Lesotho | 47.22 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.4% | flat |
| 135 | Egypt | 46.99 0-100 | 2024 | up 8.9% | falling |
| 136 | Kiribati | 46.95 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 137 | Kyrgyzstan | 46.71 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.8% | flat |
| 138 | Uganda | 46.59 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.8% | falling |
| 139 | Nauru | 46.59 0-100 | 2024 | up 16.0% | rising |
| 140 | Burkina Faso | 46.57 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.5% | flat |
| 141 | Uzbekistan | 46.56 0-100 | 2024 | up 46.7% | rising |
| 142 | Tanzania | 46.42 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.7% | flat |
| 143 | Nepal | 46.15 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.0% | flat |
| 144 | Malawi | 45.64 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.0% | falling |
| 145 | Papua New Guinea | 45.39 0-100 | 2024 | down 10.6% | flat |
| 146 | Honduras | 44.96 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.5% | flat |
| 147 | Cambodia | 44.91 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.7% | falling |
| 148 | Nigeria | 44.87 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 149 | Laos | 44.83 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.0% | rising |
| 150 | Eswatini | 44.8 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.3% | flat |
| 151 | Ecuador | 44.67 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.2% | flat |
| 152 | Gambia | 44.39 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 153 | Marshall Islands | 44.02 0-100 | 2024 | up 16.8% | flat |
| 154 | Gabon | 43.45 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.3% | falling |
| 155 | Cameroon | 43.37 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 156 | East Timor | 43.28 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 157 | Madagascar | 43.06 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.6% | falling |
| 158 | Algeria | 42.99 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.3% | falling |
| 159 | Tajikistan | 42.9 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 160 | Mali | 42.84 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.0% | falling |
| 161 | Niger | 42.84 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.6% | rising |
| 162 | Micronesia (country) | 42.82 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.7% | falling |
| 163 | Mozambique | 42.82 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.3% | falling |
| 164 | Angola | 42.67 0-100 | 2024 | up 10.4% | rising |
| 165 | Mauritania | 42.59 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.1% | falling |
| 166 | Pakistan | 42.36 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 167 | Burundi | 42.03 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.7% | rising |
| 168 | Ethiopia | 41.72 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 169 | Liberia | 41.59 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.6% | rising |
| 170 | Djibouti | 41.41 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.8% | flat |
| 171 | Solomon Islands | 40.85 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 172 | Sao Tome and Principe | 40.81 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.5% | falling |
| 173 | Guinea | 40.8 0-100 | 2024 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 174 | Suriname | 40.37 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.5% | rising |
| 175 | Bangladesh | 39.88 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.1% | rising |
| 176 | Lebanon | 39.74 0-100 | 2024 | down 17.0% | falling |
| 177 | Nicaragua | 39.23 0-100 | 2024 | down 19.1% | falling |
| 178 | Iraq | 38.61 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.7% | rising |
| 179 | Sierra Leone | 38.16 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.5% | rising |
| 180 | Russia | 38.01 0-100 | 2024 | down 20.4% | falling |
| 181 | Chad | 37.71 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.4% | rising |
| 182 | Congo | 36.7 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.5% | rising |
| 183 | Zimbabwe | 36.28 0-100 | 2024 | up 29.9% | rising |
| 184 | Guinea-Bissau | 36.09 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.7% | flat |
| 185 | Belarus | 35.43 0-100 | 2024 | down 13.1% | rising |
| 186 | Comoros | 35.17 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 187 | Bolivia | 35.08 0-100 | 2024 | down 15.6% | falling |
| 188 | Central African Republic | 34.86 0-100 | 2024 | up 12.8% | flat |
| 189 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 34.6 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.9% | rising |
| 190 | Equatorial Guinea | 32.8 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 191 | Myanmar | 32.47 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.1% | rising |
| 192 | Cuba | 32.2 0-100 | 2024 | down 14.3% | rising |
| 193 | Haiti | 31.78 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.9% | flat |
| 194 | Iran | 31.03 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.6% | rising |
| 195 | Afghanistan | 30.6 0-100 | 2024 | down 15.5% | rising |
| 196 | Yemen | 29.88 0-100 | 2024 | down 25.1% | falling |
| 197 | Sudan | 28.64 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.3% | falling |
| 198 | Turkmenistan | 28.23 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 199 | Somalia | 27.62 0-100 | 2024 | up 25.3% | rising |
| 200 | Libya | 27.43 0-100 | 2024 | up 13.5% | falling |
| 201 | North Korea | 25.3 0-100 | 2024 | up 13.2% | rising |
| 202 | Venezuela | 24.85 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.1% | falling |
| 203 | South Sudan | 24.43 0-100 | 2024 | down 14.4% | falling |
| 204 | Syria | 23.36 0-100 | 2024 | down 19.6% | falling |
| 205 | Eritrea | 22.76 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.3% | falling |
About this data
Regulatory Quality (RQ) captures perceptions of the government’s ability to design and implement policies and regulations that promote private sector development. 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).