Government Effectiveness
Score: 0 – 100
Description: These maps show government effectiveness across the EU27 and neighbouring countries. Government Effectiveness captures perceptions 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.
Analysis & Metadata
Analysis:
On average, government effectiveness decreased by 0.3% per year across the EU27 in the last ten years (of available data).Projection:
If the next decade is like the previous one, government effectiveness will be around 69 by 2030 on average across the EU27. Data timeline: 1996 – 2020
Data treatment:
- This data has been parsed by a linear regression algorithm in order to complete any missing data with a likely statistical approximation (countries may be missing data for certain years for any number of reasons, see original source) and to produce statistical projections for the near future.
- The EU27 average has been weighted in accordance with population data.
- Worldwide Governance Indicators are scored from -2.5 to 2.5. These have been rescaled to range from 0 to 100. Please note that this data is different from the percentile data, ranked from 0 to 100, also provided by the Worldwide Governance Indicators.
Last updated: Wed 13 October 2021
Disclaimer: This data is taken from publicly available sources. Even though all reasonable endeavours have been made to ensure the reliability of the information presented, it is provided as is, without any guarantee of accuracy. Missing data may have been added using standard statistical approximation methods.