Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (World Bank WDI)

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Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (World Bank WDI)

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World Bank: World Development Indicators and International Debt Statistics (World Bank)

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https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka

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Source: The World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

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World Bank, World Development Indicators, GOV_WGI_GE_SC, Sri Lanka. Data source (as the World Bank gives it): The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG), uri: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/worldwide-governance-indicators, note: Detailed documentation of the WGI, interactive tools for exploring the data, and full access to the underlying source data available at www.govindicators.org. Worldwide Governance Indicators, 2025 Revision, World Bank (www.govindicators.org), Accessed on 12/15/2025. And: World Bank (2025). “The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data.” Washington, DC: World Bank Group. The 2025 revision builds upon the original WGI methodology which was introduced in 1999 and summarized by the following paper: Kaufmann, Daniel & Aart C. Kraay. (2024). “The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Methodology and 2024 Update.” Policy Research Working Paper. Washington, DC: World Bank Group., date accessed: 2026-06-03, date published: 2025 Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka.

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One vintage so far, published 8 Oct 2026. Revisions show here once a later release changes a value.