Government effectiveness

Quality of public services and of the civil service.

measured by: World Bank
years covered: 1996–2024
subject: Government

Higher is generally taken as better.

How this is measured

Perceptions of the quality of public services, the competence and independence of the civil service, and the credibility of the government’s commitment to its own policies, rescaled to 0–100. It says nothing about what the government is effective at, which is worth remembering before reading it as a good-government score.

Ranked for 2024

169 countries and territories have a figure for 2024. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1996.

#	Country	Region	Effectiveness
1	Japan	Asia-Pacific	91.9
2	Luxembourg	Europe	91.0
3	Denmark	Europe	88.5
4	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	87.3
5	Norway	Europe	87.2
6	Switzerland	Europe	87.1
7	Finland	Europe	86.7
8	Australia	Asia-Pacific	86.5
9	Sweden	Europe	85.8
10	Canada	Americas	85.5
11	Netherlands	Europe	85.4
12	Iceland	Europe	83.3
13	Ireland	Europe	82.7
14	Germany	Europe	81.4
15	Austria	Europe	80.8
16	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	80.2
17	United States	Americas	77.8
18	Greenland	Americas	77.6
19	Estonia	Europe	76.6
20	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	75.8
21	Lithuania	Europe	74.7
22	France	Europe	74.7
23	Belgium	Europe	74.6
24	United Kingdom	Europe	74.4
25	Czechia	Europe	74.2
26	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	74.1
27	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	73.4
28	Spain	Europe	72.9
29	Slovenia	Europe	72.5
30	Chile	Americas	70.1
31	Portugal	Europe	69.8
32	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	69.1
33	China	Asia-Pacific	68.8
34	Cyprus	Europe	68.3
35	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	67.6
36	Italy	Europe	66.7
37	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	66.6
38	Latvia	Europe	65.8
39	Croatia	Europe	65.1
40	Bahamas	Americas	65.1
41	Uruguay	Americas	64.8
42	Poland	Europe	64.4
43	Slovakia	Europe	64.1
44	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	63.2
45	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	62.6
46	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	62.4
47	Hungary	Europe	61.1
48	Georgia	Eurasia	60.2
49	Romania	Europe	59.5
50	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	59.4
51	India	Asia-Pacific	59.2
52	Montenegro	Europe	58.5
53	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	58.1
54	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	57.7
55	Albania	Europe	57.4
56	Costa Rica	Americas	56.9
57	Moldova	Eurasia	56.4
58	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	56.3
59	Panama	Americas	56.1
60	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	55.9
61	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	55.5
62	Greece	Europe	55.1
63	Argentina	Americas	54.9
64	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	54.8
65	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	54.8
66	Jamaica	Americas	54.7
67	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	54.6
68	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	54.2
69	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	54.2
70	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	53.5
71	Serbia	Europe	53.3
72	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	53.3
73	Dominican Republic	Americas	52.8
74	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	52.5
75	Bulgaria	Europe	52.2
76	North Macedonia	Europe	50.7
77	Kosovo	Europe	50.1
78	Turkey	Eurasia	50.0
79	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	49.5
80	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	49.5
81	Guyana	Americas	49.4
82	Colombia	Americas	49.2
83	Belize	Americas	48.8
84	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	48.5
85	El Salvador	Americas	47.8
86	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	47.7
87	Peru	Americas	47.4
88	Ecuador	Americas	47.1
89	Mexico	Americas	47.1
90	Brazil	Americas	47.0
91	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	46.9
92	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	46.7
93	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	46.5
94	Puerto Rico	Americas	46.4
95	Cuba	Americas	46.1
96	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	46.0
97	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	45.7
98	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	45.6
99	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	45.5
100	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	45.2
101	Russia	Eurasia	45.1
102	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	44.5
103	Paraguay	Americas	44.4
104	Armenia	Eurasia	44.3
105	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	43.8
106	Suriname	Americas	42.5
107	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	41.8
108	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	41.0
109	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	40.9
110	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	40.3
111	Laos	Asia-Pacific	40.0
112	Ukraine	Eurasia	39.7
113	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	39.7
114	Tajikistan	Eurasia	39.7
115	Bolivia	Americas	39.5
116	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	39.3
117	Honduras	Americas	39.3
118	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	39.0
119	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	38.8
120	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	38.8
121	Belarus	Eurasia	37.7
122	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	37.6
123	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	37.4
124	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	37.2
125	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	36.9
126	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	36.4
127	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	36.2
128	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	36.1
129	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	35.8
130	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	35.8
131	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	35.5
132	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	34.6
133	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	34.5
134	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	34.3
135	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	34.1
136	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	34.1
137	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	34.1
138	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	33.9
139	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	33.8
140	Guatemala	Americas	33.7
141	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	32.5
142	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	32.1
143	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	31.8
144	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	31.8
145	Nicaragua	Americas	30.9
146	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	30.7
147	Palestine	Middle East & North Africa	30.0
148	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.9
149	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	29.9
150	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.7
151	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	29.4
152	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	28.3
153	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	27.1
154	North Korea	Asia-Pacific	26.6
155	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	26.3
156	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	24.7
157	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	23.7
158	Eritrea	Sub-Saharan Africa	23.0
159	Venezuela	Americas	22.8
160	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	21.0
161	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	20.7
162	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	18.8
163	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	18.4
164	Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	16.5
165	Yemen	Middle East & North Africa	14.9
166	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	13.7
167	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	13.4
168	Haiti	Americas	12.1
169	South Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	9.1

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — Worldwide Governance Indicators

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