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Regulatory Quality (standard error) by country

See definition GV.REGL.LA.ES. Inherent to all Governance Indicators is a margin of error, which might vary from country to country, normally attributable to two factors: (i) cross-country differences in the number of sources in which a country appears, and (ii) differences in the precision of the sources in which...

Countries reporting
53
Highest
0.2155 standard error
Somalia
Lowest
0.1567 standard error
South Africa
Median
0.1645 standard error
Years covered
16
1996–2011
Data points
689

What the numbers show

Regulatory Quality (standard error) is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 0.2155 standard error in Somalia; the lowest is 0.1567 standard error in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1645 standard error, and the mean is 0.1727 standard error.

Regulatory Quality: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Somalia 0.2155 standard error 2011 down 37.9% falling
2 Comoros 0.2138 standard error 2011 down 28.5% falling
3 Seychelles 0.2119 standard error 2011 down 29.1% falling
4 Guinea-Bissau 0.2076 standard error 2011 down 23.8% falling
5 Sao Tome and Principe 0.1991 standard error 2011 down 33.4% falling
5 Djibouti 0.1991 standard error 2011 down 28.2% falling
5 Equatorial Guinea 0.1991 standard error 2011 down 19.5% falling
8 Eswatini 0.1944 standard error 2011 down 29.9% falling
8 Cape Verde 0.1944 standard error 2011 down 42.2% falling
10 Libya 0.1907 standard error 2011 down 37.8% falling
11 Gambia 0.1897 standard error 2011 down 30.4% falling
12 Gabon 0.1847 standard error 2011 down 24.3% falling
13 Eritrea 0.1742 standard error 2011 down 41.7% falling
14 Sudan 0.1719 standard error 2011 down 33.4% falling
15 Burundi 0.1711 standard error 2011 down 42.8% falling
15 Lesotho 0.1711 standard error 2011 down 38.3% falling
15 Rwanda 0.1711 standard error 2011 down 38.3% falling
18 Sierra Leone 0.1708 standard error 2011 down 41.6% falling
18 Guinea 0.1708 standard error 2011 down 37.3% falling
18 Liberia 0.1708 standard error 2011 down 41.6% falling
21 Algeria 0.1683 standard error 2011 down 31.0% falling
21 Namibia 0.1683 standard error 2011 down 31.0% falling
23 Malawi 0.1678 standard error 2011 down 31.2% falling
24 Central African Republic 0.1673 standard error 2011 down 44.0% falling
25 Benin 0.1645 standard error 2011 down 40.7% falling
25 Mauritius 0.1645 standard error 2011 down 34.3% falling
25 Mauritania 0.1645 standard error 2011 down 40.7% falling
25 Chad 0.1645 standard error 2011 down 40.7% falling
29 Togo 0.1643 standard error 2011 down 39.7% falling
29 Niger 0.1643 standard error 2011 down 39.7% falling
29 Morocco 0.1643 standard error 2011 down 32.6% falling
29 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.1643 standard error 2011 down 43.9% falling
29 Congo 0.1643 standard error 2011 down 39.7% falling
34 Zimbabwe 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 26.6% falling
34 Tunisia 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
34 Tanzania 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
34 Uganda 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
34 Angola 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 37.3% falling
34 Zambia 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
34 Burkina Faso 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 40.7% falling
34 Ethiopia 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
34 Botswana 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
34 Senegal 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
34 Cote d'Ivoire 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
34 Nigeria 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 26.6% falling
34 Mozambique 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
34 Mali 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 40.7% falling
34 Madagascar 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 40.7% falling
34 Cameroon 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
34 Kenya 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
34 Egypt 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 26.6% falling
34 Ghana 0.1617 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
53 South Africa 0.1567 standard error 2011 down 22.3% falling

About this data

Indicator
Regulatory Quality (standard error)
Unit
standard error
Source
World Bank Institute
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
53 places, 689 data points, 1996–2011
Last refreshed

See definition GV.REGL.LA.ES. Inherent to all Governance Indicators is a margin of error, which might vary from country to country, normally attributable to two factors: (i) cross-country differences in the number of sources in which a country appears, and (ii) differences in the precision of the sources in which each country appears.