Global Rankings: Government Effectiveness (2023)

Rank	Country	Value
1	Singapore	2.32
2	Switzerland	2.13
3	Monaco	2.02
4	Denmark	2.02
5	Luxembourg	1.91
6	Norway	1.80
7	Finland	1.74
8	Japan	1.63
9	Liechtenstein	1.63
10	Netherlands	1.63
11	United Arab Emirates	1.60
12	Sweden	1.60
13	Ireland	1.59
14	Australia	1.59
15	Iceland	1.56
16	Hong Kong	1.55
17	New Zealand	1.53
18	Canada	1.52
19	Andorra	1.48
20	Korea, Republic of	1.40
21	Brunei Darussalam	1.40
22	Austria	1.33
23	Estonia	1.26
24	Cayman Islands	1.24
25	United States	1.22
26	Bermuda	1.20
27	San Marino	1.20
28	Qatar	1.20
29	Germany	1.19
30	United Kingdom	1.16
31	Israel	1.15
32	France	1.14
33	Czechia	1.11
34	Macao	1.09
35	Lithuania	1.05
36	Slovenia	1.04
37	Belgium	1.04
38	Portugal	0.99
39	Malaysia	0.88
40	Uruguay	0.85
41	Saudi Arabia	0.80
42	Aruba	0.80
43	Georgia	0.79
44	Greenland	0.76
45	Spain	0.75
46	Cyprus	0.74
47	Chile	0.72
48	Croatia	0.71
49	Mauritius	0.71
50	Bahrain	0.70
51	Latvia	0.70
52	China	0.68
53	American Samoa	0.65
54	Guam	0.65
55	Virgin Islands, U.S.	0.65
56	Seychelles	0.62
57	Italy	0.61
58	Indonesia	0.58
59	Bhutan	0.57
60	Samoa	0.49
61	Fiji	0.49
62	India	0.48
63	Palau	0.44
64	Botswana	0.43
65	Poland	0.42
66	Jamaica	0.41
67	Malta	0.40
68	Rwanda	0.39
69	Jordan	0.39
70	Barbados	0.38
71	Antigua and Barbuda	0.38
72	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.38
73	Hungary	0.37
74	Oman	0.27
75	Bahamas	0.27
76	Dominica	0.26
77	Costa Rica	0.26
78	Albania	0.25
79	Montenegro	0.25
80	Micronesia, Federated States of	0.23
81	Slovakia	0.23
82	Thailand	0.17
83	Philippines	0.15
84	Greece	0.15
85	Kazakhstan	0.15
86	Dominican Republic	0.13
87	Viet Nam	0.13
88	Saint Lucia	0.07
89	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.07
90	Marshall Islands	0.07
91	Senegal	0.07
92	El Salvador	0.05
93	Bulgaria	0.05
94	Namibia	0.03
95	Cabo Verde	0.01
96	Serbia	0.01
97	Kuwait	0.01
98	Grenada	-0.01
99	Azerbaijan	-0.03
100	Morocco	-0.04
101	Trinidad and Tobago	-0.04
102	North Macedonia	-0.05
103	Nauru	-0.07
104	Colombia	-0.08
105	Ghana	-0.09
106	Romania	-0.09
107	Kiribati	-0.10
108	Tonga	-0.12
109	Maldives	-0.13
110	Moldova, Republic of	-0.16
111	Armenia	-0.18
112	Mexico	-0.20
113	Panama	-0.21
114	Benin	-0.22
115	Egypt	-0.24
116	Türkiye	-0.25
117	Sri Lanka	-0.25
118	South Africa	-0.26
119	Uzbekistan	-0.28
120	Guyana	-0.29
121	Tunisia	-0.30
122	Kenya	-0.30
123	Cambodia	-0.31
124	Ukraine	-0.36
125	Côte d'Ivoire	-0.36
126	Belize	-0.38
127	Argentina	-0.38
128	Puerto Rico	-0.39
129	Tuvalu	-0.45
130	Tanzania, United Republic of	-0.46
131	Paraguay	-0.46
132	Mongolia	-0.47
133	Cuba	-0.48
134	Peru	-0.49
135	Ecuador	-0.49
136	Brazil	-0.55
137	Uganda	-0.55
138	Vanuatu	-0.57
139	Pakistan	-0.58
140	Togo	-0.58
141	Gambia	-0.59
142	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	-0.64
143	Niger	-0.64
144	Lao People's Democratic Republic	-0.64
145	Zambia	-0.66
146	Algeria	-0.67
147	Bangladesh	-0.70
148	Russian Federation	-0.71
149	Mozambique	-0.72
150	Djibouti	-0.73
151	Solomon Islands	-0.73
152	Mauritania	-0.76
153	Ethiopia	-0.77
154	Tajikistan	-0.77
155	Gabon	-0.78
156	Honduras	-0.80
157	Papua New Guinea	-0.80
158	Nepal	-0.81
159	Burkina Faso	-0.83
160	Timor-Leste	-0.84
161	Nigeria	-0.85
162	Malawi	-0.86
163	Eswatini	-0.88
164	Kyrgyzstan	-0.89
165	Guatemala	-0.90
166	Sao Tome and Principe	-0.90
167	Cameroon	-0.91
168	Guinea	-0.91
169	Lesotho	-0.95
170	Suriname	-0.97
171	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.97
172	Belarus	-0.99
173	Angola	-1.01
174	Iran, Islamic Republic of	-1.02
175	Madagascar	-1.02
176	Nicaragua	-1.08
177	Mali	-1.14
178	Sierra Leone	-1.16
179	Zimbabwe	-1.17
180	Burundi	-1.20
181	Turkmenistan	-1.21
182	Palestine, State of	-1.21
183	Equatorial Guinea	-1.32
184	Congo	-1.33
185	Liberia	-1.36
186	Iraq	-1.39
187	Guinea-Bissau	-1.43
188	Chad	-1.48
189	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	-1.48
190	Comoros	-1.54
191	Lebanon	-1.58
192	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	-1.60
193	Libya	-1.64
194	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	-1.69
195	Central African Republic	-1.74
196	Myanmar	-1.75
197	Syrian Arab Republic	-1.79
198	Eritrea	-1.79
199	Sudan	-1.98
200	Somalia	-1.98
201	Afghanistan	-1.99
202	Haiti	-2.23
203	Yemen	-2.28
204	South Sudan	-2.33

About This Indicator

The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) are a research dataset summarizing the views on the quality of governance provided by a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries. Governance consists of the traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised. This includes the process by which governments are selected, monitored and replaced; the capacity of the government to effectively formulate and implement sound policies; and the respect of citizens and the state for the institutions that govern economic and social interactions among them. The WGI measures six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. Government Effectiveness captures perceptions and views of the quality of public services, the quality of the civil service and the degree of its independence from political pressures, the quality of policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of the government's commitment to such policies. Estimate gives the country's score on the aggregate indicator, in units of a standard normal distribution, i.e. ranging from approximately -2.5 to 2.5.

Data source: World Bank Development Indicators