Rule of Law - Governance estimate (approx. -2.5 to +2.5) - Africa
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group ( WBG ), uri: 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 govindicators.org. Worldwide Governance Indicators, 2025 Revision, World Bank ( 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
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