Dashboard Overview

This dashboard presents the World Governance Indicators (WGI), which evaluates public perceptions of six dimensions of governance, including civil liberties, political stability, government effectiveness, market-friendliness, the rule of law, and the control of corruption. It allows users to compare scores across multiple countries and over time, serving as a useful first step in understanding the disparities between countries or regions and informing further analysis.

Key Variables and Metrics

The dashboard includes the six WGI indicators, each measured on a percentile ranking system from 0 to 100 that indicates the position of each country relative to all countries in the world. They are:

1.     Voice and Accountability – Measures the extent to which citizens are able to participate in selecting their government, as well as freedom of expression, association, and free media.

2.     Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism – Measures likelihood of political instability and/or politically-motivated violence, including terrorism.

3.     Government Effectiveness – Measures quality of public services, the civil service and their independence from political pressures, the quality of policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of the government’s commitment to such policies.

4.     Regulatory Quality – Measures the ability of the government to formulate and implement sound policies and regulations that permit and promote private sector development.

5.     Rule of Law – Measures the quality of contract enforcement, property rights, the police, and the courts, as well as the likelihood of crime and violence.

6.     Control of Corruption – Measures the extent to which public power is exercised for private gain, including both petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as “capture” of the state by elites and private interests.

The data used in this dashboard is retrieved from the World Bank Group, which compiles the data for the WGI from a diverse set of surveys conducted by think tanks, international organisations, nongovernmental organisations, and private firms.

Developer: Wu Yang