Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) in Germany
Germany: Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) was 76.43 0-100 in 2025. ▬ Flat
Regulatory Quality - Governance score in Germany, 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 Germany stood at 76.43 0-100. That is the lowest value across all 27 years on record.
That represents a change of down 3.0% on the previous year and down 8.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, regulatory quality - governance score in Germany peaked at 85.16 0-100 in 2002 and was at its lowest, 76.43 0-100, in 2025.
Germany ranks 21st of 206 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) in Germany, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 77.86 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 77.97 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2000 | 83.49 0-100 | +7.1% |
| 2002 | 85.16 0-100 | +2.0% |
| 2003 | 82.25 0-100 | -3.4% |
| 2004 | 81.03 0-100 | -1.5% |
| 2005 | 81.85 0-100 | +1.0% |
| 2006 | 81.81 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2007 | 82.05 0-100 | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 79.44 0-100 | -3.2% |
| 2009 | 80.18 0-100 | +0.9% |
| 2010 | 80.42 0-100 | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 81.05 0-100 | +0.8% |
| 2012 | 81.15 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 80.81 0-100 | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 82.05 0-100 | +1.5% |
| 2015 | 83.33 0-100 | +1.6% |
| 2016 | 84.04 0-100 | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 84.06 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 83.86 0-100 | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 83.67 0-100 | -0.2% |
| 2020 | 82.15 0-100 | -1.8% |
| 2021 | 82.93 0-100 | +1.0% |
| 2022 | 81.91 0-100 | -1.2% |
| 2023 | 79.12 0-100 | -3.4% |
| 2024 | 78.8 0-100 | -0.4% |
| 2025 | 76.43 0-100 | -3.0% |
Germany compared with similar countries
- Germany's 76.43 0-100 is above the median for high income countries, which is 71.12 0-100, 1.1× the median. (74 countries reporting)
- Germany's 76.43 0-100 is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 66.01 0-100, 1.2× the median. (54 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 77.92 0-100 | 77.86 0-100 | 77.97 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 81.92 0-100 | 79.44 0-100 | 85.16 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 82.44 0-100 | 80.42 0-100 | 84.06 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 80.22 0-100 | 76.43 0-100 | 82.93 0-100 | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is regulatory quality - governance score in Germany?
- Regulatory quality - governance score in Germany was 76.43 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 Germany?
- The highest recorded value was 85.16 0-100 in 2002.
- What is the lowest regulatory quality - governance score recorded in Germany?
- The lowest recorded value was 76.43 0-100 in 2025.
- How does Germany rank for regulatory quality - governance score?
- Germany ranks 21st out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is regulatory quality - governance score rising or falling in Germany?
- Over the last ten years it is down 8.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Germany 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).