Global Rankings: Voice Accountability (2023)

Rank	Country	Value
1	Norway	1.78
2	New Zealand	1.69
3	Switzerland	1.67
4	Denmark	1.66
5	Luxembourg	1.63
6	Finland	1.63
7	Sweden	1.57
8	Netherlands	1.56
9	Australia	1.51
10	Ireland	1.48
11	Canada	1.48
12	Germany	1.46
13	Iceland	1.45
14	Austria	1.41
15	Liechtenstein	1.40
16	Belgium	1.33
17	Uruguay	1.28
18	Greenland	1.27
19	United Kingdom	1.26
20	San Marino	1.25
21	Tuvalu	1.22
22	Estonia	1.22
23	Portugal	1.21
24	Spain	1.19
25	Barbados	1.16
26	France	1.15
27	Marshall Islands	1.13
28	Italy	1.12
29	Japan	1.11
30	Kiribati	1.09
31	Micronesia, Federated States of	1.09
32	Palau	1.09
33	Slovenia	1.08
34	Czechia	1.08
35	Lithuania	1.07
36	Costa Rica	1.07
37	Samoa	1.02
38	Aruba	1.02
39	Chile	1.02
40	Greece	1.01
41	Andorra	1.00
42	Latvia	0.99
43	Cyprus	0.97
44	Cabo Verde	0.96
45	Malta	0.91
46	Slovakia	0.91
47	United States	0.88
48	Tonga	0.87
49	Saint Lucia	0.86
50	Bahamas	0.86
51	Korea, Republic of	0.86
52	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.83
53	Dominica	0.79
54	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.77
55	Cayman Islands	0.76
56	Grenada	0.75
57	South Africa	0.74
58	Antigua and Barbuda	0.74
59	Monaco	0.65
60	Israel	0.64
61	Nauru	0.64
62	Vanuatu	0.63
63	Poland	0.63
64	Trinidad and Tobago	0.62
65	Mauritius	0.62
66	Namibia	0.58
67	Croatia	0.57
68	Jamaica	0.56
69	Seychelles	0.56
70	Panama	0.55
71	Belize	0.54
72	Argentina	0.53
73	Botswana	0.50
74	Romania	0.50
75	Puerto Rico	0.45
76	Timor-Leste	0.43
77	Ghana	0.41
78	Bulgaria	0.39
79	Brazil	0.38
80	Hungary	0.36
81	Suriname	0.35
82	Montenegro	0.34
83	Solomon Islands	0.34
84	Dominican Republic	0.33
85	Sao Tome and Principe	0.25
86	Mongolia	0.25
87	Moldova, Republic of	0.24
88	Colombia	0.21
89	Bhutan	0.20
90	Fiji	0.19
91	Albania	0.17
92	North Macedonia	0.16
93	Guyana	0.15
94	Indonesia	0.14
95	Senegal	0.13
96	India	0.09
97	Malaysia	0.09
98	Armenia	0.08
99	Malawi	0.08
100	Peru	0.06
101	Liberia	0.05
102	Paraguay	0.04
103	Georgia	0.03
104	Lesotho	0.03
105	Papua New Guinea	0.01
106	Philippines	-0.02
107	Nepal	-0.02
108	Gambia	-0.04
109	Zambia	-0.05
110	Serbia	-0.06
111	Ecuador	-0.06
112	Singapore	-0.07
113	Ukraine	-0.10
114	Mexico	-0.12
115	Kenya	-0.12
116	Maldives	-0.14
117	Tunisia	-0.21
118	Benin	-0.22
119	Sri Lanka	-0.23
120	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	-0.27
121	Sierra Leone	-0.30
122	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.32
123	Madagascar	-0.32
124	Hong Kong	-0.32
125	Côte d'Ivoire	-0.38
126	Guinea-Bissau	-0.44
127	Thailand	-0.45
128	Honduras	-0.45
129	El Salvador	-0.47
130	Morocco	-0.49
131	Macao	-0.51
132	Guatemala	-0.53
133	Tanzania, United Republic of	-0.53
134	Nigeria	-0.55
135	Mozambique	-0.59
136	Kuwait	-0.59
137	Lebanon	-0.65
138	Mauritania	-0.66
139	Niger	-0.70
140	Uganda	-0.70
141	Brunei Darussalam	-0.72
142	Kyrgyzstan	-0.72
143	Angola	-0.74
144	Bangladesh	-0.75
145	Jordan	-0.77
146	Togo	-0.78
147	Comoros	-0.81
148	Burkina Faso	-0.81
149	Türkiye	-0.86
150	Rwanda	-0.90
151	Gabon	-0.92
152	Iraq	-0.96
153	Pakistan	-0.96
154	Qatar	-0.97
155	Algeria	-0.98
156	Kazakhstan	-1.00
157	Oman	-1.00
158	Mali	-1.01
159	Ethiopia	-1.06
160	Cameroon	-1.07
161	Zimbabwe	-1.09
162	United Arab Emirates	-1.09
163	Palestine, State of	-1.12
164	Guinea	-1.15
165	Congo	-1.15
166	Eswatini	-1.16
167	Haiti	-1.18
168	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	-1.21
169	Viet Nam	-1.24
170	Cuba	-1.25
171	Central African Republic	-1.26
172	Djibouti	-1.27
173	Russian Federation	-1.29
174	Cambodia	-1.29
175	Uzbekistan	-1.31
176	Burundi	-1.37
177	Bahrain	-1.38
178	Egypt	-1.38
179	Nicaragua	-1.39
180	Libya	-1.39
181	Azerbaijan	-1.41
182	Saudi Arabia	-1.42
183	Chad	-1.43
184	Iran, Islamic Republic of	-1.45
185	China	-1.50
186	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	-1.53
187	Yemen	-1.55
188	Sudan	-1.60
189	Lao People's Democratic Republic	-1.63
190	Tajikistan	-1.63
191	Somalia	-1.66
192	Belarus	-1.67
193	Equatorial Guinea	-1.68
194	South Sudan	-1.68
195	Myanmar	-1.84
196	Afghanistan	-1.85
197	Syrian Arab Republic	-1.85
198	Eritrea	-1.86
199	Turkmenistan	-1.88
200	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	-1.98

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. Voice and Accountability captures perceptions of the extent to which a country's citizens are able to participate in selecting their government, as well as freedom of expression, freedom of association, and a free media. 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. For each dimension of governance the following information is available in the database: estimate, percentile rank, lower bound of 90% confidence interval, upper bound of 90% confidence interval, standard error, number of sources.

Data source: World Bank Development Indicators