Government effectiveness in South America

12 countries in South America, 2024. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
70.1 /100
Chile
Median country
47.3 /100
half above, half below
Range
22.8 to 70.1
Venezuela - Chile

How to read it

Across 12 countries in South America, the highest value is in Chile (70.1 /100) and the lowest in Venezuela (22.8 /100).

The median country is at 47.3 /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
1Chile70.1
2Uruguay64.8
3Argentina54.9
4Guyana49.4
5Colombia49.2
6Peru47.4
7Ecuador47.1
8Brazil47.0
9Paraguay44.4
10Suriname42.5
11Bolivia39.5
12Venezuela22.8
World Bank, WGI · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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