World Governance Index

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The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) is a project that reports both aggregate and individual governance indicators for over 200 countries and territories covering the period from 1996 to 2021. It considers six dimensions of governance:[1]

  • Voice and Accountability
  • Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism
  • Government Effectiveness
  • Regulatory Quality
  • Rule of Law
  • Control of Corruption

These aggregate indicators are based on the views of a large number of enterprise, citizen, and expert survey respondents in both industrial and developing countries. The indicators draw from over 30 individual data sources produced by a variety of survey institutes, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and private sector firms.[2]

The 2022 WGI update includes significant revisions to the underlying source data, which affect the data for earlier years in the WGI dataset. This latest release supersedes previous releases.[3]

  1. ^ "Worldwide Governance Indicators". World Bank. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Worldwide Governance Indicators". World Bank. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Worldwide Governance Indicators". World Bank. Retrieved 17 May 2023.