Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) in Australia
Australia: Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) was 84.23 0-100 in 2025. ▲ Rising
Regulatory Quality - Governance score in Australia, 1996–2025
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
In 2025, regulatory quality - governance score in Australia stood at 84.23 0-100.
The figure is down 0.5% on the previous year and down 2.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, regulatory quality - governance score in Australia peaked at 88.5 0-100 in 2012 and was at its lowest, 73.83 0-100, in 1996.
Australia ranks 5th of 206 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 27 years of available data.
Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) in Australia, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 73.83 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 78.2 0-100 | +5.9% |
| 2000 | 83.45 0-100 | +6.7% |
| 2002 | 82.54 0-100 | -1.1% |
| 2003 | 85.21 0-100 | +3.2% |
| 2004 | 87.93 0-100 | +3.2% |
| 2005 | 86.74 0-100 | -1.4% |
| 2006 | 86.67 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2007 | 86.85 0-100 | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 87.06 0-100 | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 85.85 0-100 | -1.4% |
| 2010 | 84.46 0-100 | -1.6% |
| 2011 | 86.98 0-100 | +3.0% |
| 2012 | 88.5 0-100 | +1.8% |
| 2013 | 88.29 0-100 | -0.2% |
| 2014 | 85.99 0-100 | -2.6% |
| 2015 | 85.97 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2016 | 87.19 0-100 | +1.4% |
| 2017 | 87.16 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2018 | 87.33 0-100 | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 87.59 0-100 | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 86.35 0-100 | -1.4% |
| 2021 | 86.6 0-100 | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 87.09 0-100 | +0.6% |
| 2023 | 87.1 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 84.66 0-100 | -2.8% |
| 2025 | 84.23 0-100 | -0.5% |
Australia compared with similar countries
- Australia's 84.23 0-100 is above the median for high income countries, which is 71.12 0-100, 1.2× the median. (74 countries reporting)
- Australia's 84.23 0-100 is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 54.42 0-100, 1.5× the median. (34 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 76.02 0-100 | 73.83 0-100 | 78.2 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 85.81 0-100 | 82.54 0-100 | 87.93 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 86.95 0-100 | 84.46 0-100 | 88.5 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 86.01 0-100 | 84.23 0-100 | 87.1 0-100 | 6 |
Countries ranked near Australia
- 2 New Zealand 87.41 0-100 compare
- 3 Denmark 84.69 0-100 compare
- 4 Switzerland 84.48 0-100 compare
- 6 Luxembourg 83.78 0-100 compare
- 7 Finland 83.62 0-100 compare
- 8 Ireland 83.34 0-100 compare
More reference data data for Australia
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 1.21 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 28.02 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 38.41 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 2.55 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Agricultural Soils 38.41 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 4.07 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure Management 6.14 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 118.71 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 170.29 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 13.9 (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is regulatory quality - governance score in Australia?
- Regulatory quality - governance score in Australia was 84.23 0-100 in 2025, according to The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG).
- What is the highest regulatory quality - governance score recorded in Australia?
- The highest recorded value was 88.5 0-100 in 2012.
- What is the lowest regulatory quality - governance score recorded in Australia?
- The lowest recorded value was 73.83 0-100 in 1996.
- How does Australia rank for regulatory quality - governance score?
- Australia ranks 5th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is regulatory quality - governance score rising or falling in Australia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia data come from?
- The figures come from The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG), published as part of Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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).