Government effectiveness in North America

29 countries in North America, 2025. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
88.3 /100
Canada
Median country
56.9 /100
half above, half below
Range
10.6 to 88.3
Haiti - Canada

How to read it

Across 29 countries in North America, the highest value is in Canada (88.3 /100) and the lowest in Haiti (10.6 /100).

The median country is at 56.9 /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 Share of the highest value
1Canada88.3
2Bermuda82.4
3Greenland79.3
4United States76.7
5Cayman Islands74.1
6Aruba70.9
7Saint Kitts and Nevis66.7
8Bahamas65.6
9Barbados64.9
10Antigua and Barbuda61.4
11Costa Rica60.8
12United States Virgin Islands59.6
13Saint Lucia58.9
14Trinidad and Tobago57.1
15Saint Vincent and the Grenadines56.9
16Panama56.8
17Jamaica56.2
18Dominica55.6
19Dominican Republic53.2
20Grenada52.5
21Mexico48.6
22Belize48.6
23El Salvador47.5
24Cuba44.2
25Puerto Rico43.7
26Honduras40.4
27Guatemala36.5
28Nicaragua34.0
29Haiti10.6
World Bank, WGI · 2025 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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