Government effectiveness in North America

29 countries in North America, 2024. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
85.5 /100
Canada
Median country
56.1 /100
half above, half below
Range
12.1 to 85.5
Haiti - Canada

How to read it

Across 29 countries in North America, the highest value is in Canada (85.5 /100) and the lowest in Haiti (12.1 /100).

The median country is at 56.1 /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

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1Canada85.5
2Bermuda80.0
3United States77.8
4Greenland77.6
5Cayman Islands74.4
6Bahamas65.1
7Saint Kitts and Nevis64.8
8Aruba64.1
9Barbados63.1
10Antigua and Barbuda59.7
11United States Virgin Islands58.6
12Costa Rica56.9
13Saint Lucia56.6
14Saint Vincent and the Grenadines56.6
15Panama56.1
16Jamaica54.7
17Dominica54.2
18Trinidad and Tobago53.5
19Dominican Republic52.8
20Grenada51.7
21Belize48.8
22El Salvador47.8
23Mexico47.1
24Puerto Rico46.4
25Cuba46.1
26Honduras39.3
27Guatemala33.7
28Nicaragua30.9
29Haiti12.1
World Bank, WGI · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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