Worldwide Governance Indicators

Six World Bank scores for how a country is governed, from about -2.5 (worst) to 2.5 (best).

The Worldwide Governance Indicators sum up how a country is governed in six scores: rule of law, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, voice and accountability, political stability and the absence of violence, and control of corruption. Each runs from about -2.5 (worst) to 2.5 (best), with 0 the average across countries. The World Bank builds them from more than 30 sources: surveys of firms and households, and assessments by experts, NGOs and international organisations. They measure perceptions, and small differences between countries are within the margin of error.

World map · Rule of law

Year

Source: World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (updated 2026-09-25) · fetched 29 Oct 2026

Over time · Rule of law

Source: World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (updated 2026-09-25) · fetched 29 Oct 2026

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Continent Year

Source: World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (updated 2026-09-25) · fetched 29 Oct 2026

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Hello there, I’m Klaus Jürgen Folz. I studied Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and I work in Austria as a lead Python and Power BI developer. I built Data Mechanics because good decisions start with facts. Public data is often scattered, hard to find or locked behind paywalls, and too much of what we read about the world is biased. Here, every number is shown as it was published, next to its source, so anyone can check it, compare countries and leaders, and draw their own conclusions.

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