Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) in Palau
Palau: Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) was 63.16 0-100 in 2025. ▲ Rising
Regulatory Quality - Governance score in Palau, 2008–2025
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 Palau stood at 63.16 0-100.
That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, regulatory quality - governance score in Palau peaked at 63.22 0-100 in 2024 and was at its lowest, 42.86 0-100, in 2009.
Palau ranks 58th of 206 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 18 years of available data.
Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) in Palau, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 42.92 0-100 | — |
| 2009 | 42.86 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2010 | 42.93 0-100 | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 47.75 0-100 | +11.2% |
| 2012 | 47.21 0-100 | -1.1% |
| 2013 | 47.16 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 47.2 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 62.56 0-100 | +32.5% |
| 2016 | 62.6 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 62.67 0-100 | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 59.02 0-100 | -5.8% |
| 2019 | 62.77 0-100 | +6.4% |
| 2020 | 62.66 0-100 | -0.2% |
| 2021 | 62.63 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2022 | 62.52 0-100 | -0.2% |
| 2023 | 62.53 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 63.22 0-100 | +1.1% |
| 2025 | 63.16 0-100 | -0.1% |
Palau compared with similar countries
- Palau's 63.16 0-100 is below the median for high income countries, which is 71.12 0-100, 89% of the median. (74 countries reporting)
- Palau's 63.16 0-100 is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 54.42 0-100, 1.2× the median. (34 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Regulatory Quality - Governance score (0-100) (Regulatory score 0-100) in Palau 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | +32.5% | 47.2 0-100 | 62.56 0-100 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 42.89 0-100 | 42.86 0-100 | 42.92 0-100 | 2 |
| 2010s | 54.19 0-100 | 42.93 0-100 | 62.77 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 62.79 0-100 | 62.52 0-100 | 63.22 0-100 | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is regulatory quality - governance score in Palau?
- Regulatory quality - governance score in Palau was 63.16 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 Palau?
- The highest recorded value was 63.22 0-100 in 2024.
- What is the lowest regulatory quality - governance score recorded in Palau?
- The lowest recorded value was 42.86 0-100 in 2009.
- How does Palau rank for regulatory quality - governance score?
- Palau ranks 58th out of 206 countries with data for 2025.
- Is regulatory quality - governance score rising or falling in Palau?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Palau 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).