Graph of the Day: Worldwide governance indicators for regulatory quality and corruption, 2013

(World Bank) – The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 215 economies over the period 1996–2013, for six dimensions of governance:

• Voice and Accountability
• Political Stability and Absence of Violence
• 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 32 individual data sources produced by a variety of survey institutes, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and private sector firms.

• Interactive data access
• Description of methodology
• Download full dataset (Excel)

The WGI are produced by:

• Daniel Kaufmann, Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and Brookings Institution
• Aart Kraay, World Bank Development Research Group
• Massimo Mastruzzi, World Bank Institute

The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project