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Government effectiveness in Asia

50 countries in Asia, 2025. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking

95.2 /100

Singapore

Median country

54.5 /100

half above, half below

Range

12.0 to 95.2

Afghanistan - Singapore

How to read it

Across 50 countries in Asia, the highest value is in Singapore (95.2 /100) and the lowest in Afghanistan (12.0 /100).

The median country is at 54.5 /100: half are above, half below.

Government Effectiveness (GE) captures perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service, policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of a government’s decisions. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance.

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Source: World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators · licence

Government effectiveness over time

/100

Ranking of countries

2025

In chart
Singapore in chart	1	Singapore	95.2
Japan in chart	2	Japan	94.1
Hong Kong in chart	3	Hong Kong	83.8
South Korea in chart	4	South Korea	83.1
Israel in chart	5	Israel	76.7
Macao in chart	6	Macao	76.1
United Arab Emirates in chart	7	United Arab Emirates	75.4
Qatar in chart	8	Qatar	72.7
Malaysia in chart	9	Malaysia	71.9
Brunei in chart	10	Brunei	70.6
Cyprus in chart	11	Cyprus	69.4
Saudi Arabia in chart	12	Saudi Arabia	67.5
Bhutan in chart	13	Bhutan	66.8
China in chart	14	China	65.1
India in chart	15	India	62.6
Bahrain in chart	16	Bahrain	61.0
Oman in chart	17	Oman	60.1
Georgia in chart	18	Georgia	59.5
Thailand in chart	19	Thailand	57.7
Kuwait in chart	20	Kuwait	57.6
Indonesia in chart	21	Indonesia	57.6
Philippines in chart	22	Philippines	56.3
Vietnam in chart	23	Vietnam	56.0
Azerbaijan in chart	24	Azerbaijan	54.9
Jordan in chart	25	Jordan	54.6
Kazakhstan in chart	26	Kazakhstan	54.5
Türkiye in chart	27	Türkiye	52.9
Sri Lanka in chart	28	Sri Lanka	49.7
Uzbekistan in chart	29	Uzbekistan	48.3
Mongolia in chart	30	Mongolia	48.1
Armenia in chart	31	Armenia	47.5
Maldives in chart	32	Maldives	47.4
Cambodia in chart	33	Cambodia	44.1
Bangladesh in chart	34	Bangladesh	43.2
Timor-Leste in chart	35	Timor-Leste	41.3
Laos in chart	36	Laos	40.2
Pakistan in chart	37	Pakistan	39.9
Tajikistan in chart	38	Tajikistan	38.3
Nepal in chart	39	Nepal	36.6
Kyrgyzstan in chart	40	Kyrgyzstan	34.9
Iran in chart	41	Iran	34.8
Iraq in chart	42	Iraq	31.5
Lebanon in chart	43	Lebanon	29.9
Turkmenistan in chart	44	Turkmenistan	28.7
Palestine in chart	45	Palestine	25.4
North Korea in chart	46	North Korea	25.2
Syria in chart	47	Syria	19.9
Myanmar in chart	48	Myanmar	19.2
Yemen in chart	49	Yemen	14.0
Afghanistan in chart	50	Afghanistan	12.0

World Bank, WGI · 2025 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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