Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) in Maldives
Maldives: Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) was 48.66 0-100 in 2025. ▼ Falling
Regulatory Quality - Governance score in Maldives, 1996–2025
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
Maldives recorded 48.66 0-100 for regulatory quality - governance score in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 27 years on record.
That represents a change of down 3.3% on the previous year and down 2.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, regulatory quality - governance score in Maldives peaked at 71.44 0-100 in 2002 and was at its lowest, 48.66 0-100, in 2025.
Maldives ranks 126th of 206 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 27 years of available data.
Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) in Maldives, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 70.75 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 71.05 0-100 | +0.4% |
| 2000 | 71.06 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 71.44 0-100 | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 68.42 0-100 | -4.2% |
| 2004 | 51.05 0-100 | -25.4% |
| 2005 | 57.32 0-100 | +12.3% |
| 2006 | 57.29 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2007 | 55.8 0-100 | -2.6% |
| 2008 | 50.17 0-100 | -10.1% |
| 2009 | 50.18 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 51.99 0-100 | +3.6% |
| 2011 | 50.79 0-100 | -2.3% |
| 2012 | 50.57 0-100 | -0.4% |
| 2013 | 50.15 0-100 | -0.8% |
| 2014 | 50.42 0-100 | +0.5% |
| 2015 | 49.72 0-100 | -1.4% |
| 2016 | 51.09 0-100 | +2.8% |
| 2017 | 51.12 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 51.13 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 51.16 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 49.05 0-100 | -4.1% |
| 2021 | 50.6 0-100 | +3.2% |
| 2022 | 48.99 0-100 | -3.2% |
| 2023 | 48.99 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 50.32 0-100 | +2.7% |
| 2025 | 48.66 0-100 | -3.3% |
Maldives compared with similar countries
- Maldives's 48.66 0-100 is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 53.89 0-100, 90% of the median. (59 countries reporting)
- Maldives's 48.66 0-100 is below the median for South Asia, which is 49.46 0-100, 98% of the median. (6 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) in Maldives changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | -25.4% | 68.42 0-100 | 51.05 0-100 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 70.9 0-100 | 70.75 0-100 | 71.05 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 59.19 0-100 | 50.17 0-100 | 71.44 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 50.82 0-100 | 49.72 0-100 | 51.99 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 49.43 0-100 | 48.66 0-100 | 50.6 0-100 | 6 |
Countries ranked near Maldives
More reference data data for Maldives
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- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0044 (2050)
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- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Agricultural Soils 0.0044 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 1.16 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5) - Crop Residues 0.012 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5) - Burning - Crop 0.0004 (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is regulatory quality - governance score in Maldives?
- Regulatory quality - governance score in Maldives was 48.66 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 Maldives?
- The highest recorded value was 71.44 0-100 in 2002.
- What is the lowest regulatory quality - governance score recorded in Maldives?
- The lowest recorded value was 48.66 0-100 in 2025.
- How does Maldives rank for regulatory quality - governance score?
- Maldives ranks 126th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is regulatory quality - governance score rising or falling in Maldives?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Maldives 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).