Government effectiveness in South America

12 countries in South America, 2025. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
73.7 /100
Chile
Median country
51.7 /100
half above, half below
Range
23.8 to 73.7
Venezuela - Chile

How to read it

Across 12 countries in South America, the highest value is in Chile (73.7 /100) and the lowest in Venezuela (23.8 /100).

The median country is at 51.7 /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
1Chile73.7
2Uruguay70.0
3Argentina58.0
4Guyana55.4
5Suriname52.1
6Ecuador51.7
7Brazil51.6
8Colombia50.4
9Peru49.4
10Paraguay47.7
11Bolivia39.7
12Venezuela23.8
World Bank, WGI · 2025 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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