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Last updated August 4, 2022
Created August 4, 2022
Format XLSX
License Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Name Worldwide Governance Indicators WGI dataset (including LMCs)
Resource's languages
  • English
Description

The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for over 200 countries and territories over the period 1996–2020, for six dimensions of governance:

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

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

This dataset was used to create visualizations for ODM's page on government. https://opendevelopmentmekong.net/topics/government/