Regulatory quality in Oceania

16 countries in Oceania, 2025. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
87.4 /100
New Zealand
Median country
50.4 /100
half above, half below
Range
39.1 to 87.4
Solomon Islands - New Zealand

How to read it

Across 16 countries in Oceania, the highest value is in New Zealand (87.4 /100) and the lowest in Solomon Islands (39.1 /100).

The median country is at 50.4 /100: half are above, half below.

Regulatory Quality (RQ) captures perceptions of the government’s ability to design and implement policies and regulations that promote private sector development. 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

Regulatory quality over time

/100

Ranking of countries

2025
In chart Share of the highest value
1New Zealand87.4
2Australia84.2
3Palau63.2
4American Samoa61.9
5Guam61.9
6Fiji56.1
7Samoa54.2
8Tonga51.1
9Vanuatu49.6
10Kiribati48.3
11Tuvalu47.9
12Nauru45.6
13Papua New Guinea44.9
14Marshall Islands42.9
15Federated States of Micronesia42.1
16Solomon Islands39.1
World Bank, WGI · 2025 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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