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.

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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