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Voice and Accountability (standard error) by country

See definition GV.VOIC.AC.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
0.1633 standard error
Seychelles
Lowest
0.1096 standard error
South Africa
Median
0.118 standard error
Years covered
16
1996–2011
Data points
689

What the numbers show

Voice and Accountability (standard error) is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 0.1633 standard error in Seychelles; the lowest is 0.1096 standard error in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.118 standard error, and the mean is 0.1259 standard error.

Voice and Accountability: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Seychelles 0.1633 standard error 2011 down 39.0% falling
2 Sao Tome and Principe 0.162 standard error 2011 down 39.4% falling
3 Comoros 0.162 standard error 2011 down 39.4% falling
4 Cape Verde 0.1577 standard error 2011 down 49.2% falling
5 Djibouti 0.1557 standard error 2011 down 41.8% falling
6 Guinea-Bissau 0.1546 standard error 2011 down 33.4% falling
7 Equatorial Guinea 0.1524 standard error 2011 down 35.8% falling
8 Gambia 0.148 standard error 2011 down 36.3% falling
9 Lesotho 0.1426 standard error 2011 down 46.7% falling
10 Gabon 0.1403 standard error 2011 down 33.7% falling
11 Burundi 0.1402 standard error 2011 down 47.6% falling
12 Somalia 0.1379 standard error 2011 down 43.8% falling
13 Mauritius 0.1367 standard error 2011 down 46.5% falling
14 Guinea 0.1361 standard error 2011 down 41.4% falling
15 Eswatini 0.1338 standard error 2011 down 50.0% falling
16 Central African Republic 0.1336 standard error 2011 down 50.0% falling
17 Benin 0.1311 standard error 2011 down 51.0% falling
18 Chad 0.1306 standard error 2011 down 51.2% falling
19 Congo 0.1293 standard error 2011 down 44.3% falling
19 Niger 0.1293 standard error 2011 down 44.3% falling
19 Togo 0.1293 standard error 2011 down 44.3% falling
22 Sudan 0.1273 standard error 2011 down 39.9% falling
23 Namibia 0.1256 standard error 2011 down 40.7% falling
24 Botswana 0.1251 standard error 2011 down 40.9% falling
25 Cameroon 0.1248 standard error 2011 down 41.0% falling
26 Eritrea 0.1219 standard error 2011 down 54.4% falling
27 Rwanda 0.118 standard error 2011 down 55.9% falling
28 Sierra Leone 0.117 standard error 2011 down 52.3% falling
29 Libya 0.1168 standard error 2011 down 44.8% falling
30 Mauritania 0.1163 standard error 2011 down 56.5% falling
31 Tunisia 0.1158 standard error 2011 down 45.3% falling
32 Liberia 0.1144 standard error 2011 down 50.8% falling
33 Malawi 0.1139 standard error 2011 down 46.2% falling
34 Morocco 0.1135 standard error 2011 down 46.4% falling
35 Cote d'Ivoire 0.1135 standard error 2011 down 46.4% falling
36 Algeria 0.1134 standard error 2011 down 46.4% falling
37 Egypt 0.113 standard error 2011 down 45.2% falling
38 Zimbabwe 0.1129 standard error 2011 down 45.3% falling
39 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.1126 standard error 2011 down 54.1% falling
40 Madagascar 0.1124 standard error 2011 down 51.6% falling
41 Ethiopia 0.1121 standard error 2011 down 47.0% falling
42 Senegal 0.111 standard error 2011 down 47.5% falling
42 Mozambique 0.111 standard error 2011 down 47.5% falling
42 Mali 0.111 standard error 2011 down 52.2% falling
42 Zambia 0.111 standard error 2011 down 47.5% falling
46 Angola 0.1108 standard error 2011 down 47.6% falling
47 Nigeria 0.1098 standard error 2011 down 46.8% falling
47 Burkina Faso 0.1098 standard error 2011 down 52.7% falling
47 Kenya 0.1098 standard error 2011 down 48.1% falling
47 Ghana 0.1098 standard error 2011 down 48.1% falling
47 Tanzania 0.1098 standard error 2011 down 48.1% falling
47 Uganda 0.1098 standard error 2011 down 48.1% falling
53 South Africa 0.1096 standard error 2011 down 46.7% falling

About this data

Indicator
Voice and Accountability (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.VOIC.AC.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.