Worldwide Governance Indicators

Aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996–2008, for six dimensions of governance.

Acronym WGI

Type Topical

Periodicity Annual

Coverage Developing and high-income economies

Number of economies 213

Start date 1996

End date 2010

Data notes Data for Taiwan, China are available.

Granularity National

Update schedule Annual in June

Last update September, 2010

Next expected date of update June 2012

Source/Citation Worldwide Governance Indicators, The World Bank

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