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Topic 01 of 18 · Country Index 2026
United States: Governance & Institutions
How well is the state actually run?
United States is placed joint 25th of 194 countries on governance & institutions in the Country Index 2026, from 4 of its 4 key statistics. Readings behind it: Government Effectiveness 1.191 (2025); Statistical Performance Indicators 90.06 (2024).
Governance & Institutions
joint25th
of 194 countries placed
Placed from 4 of 4 key statistics
- 1.191Government Effectiveness, 2025Governance estimate (−2.5 weak to 2.5 strong)
- 90.06Statistical Performance Indicators, 2024SPI overall score (0–100)
- 64Corruption Perceptions Index, 2025CPI score (0–100, where 100 is very clean)
- 0.844Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index, 2025Judicial constraints on the executive index (0–1)
01The evidence
The 4 key statistics that decide it
Only these place United States on governance & institutions — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used; the grey ticks are every other country it was compared with, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 4
Government Effectiveness
World Bank Group
Why it is a key: The quality of public services and the civil service that delivers them, and the credibility of a government's commitment to its own policies. Where the Corruption Perceptions Index asks whether a state is honest, this asks whether it is competent.
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 4.0
1.191
Governance estimate (−2.5 weak to 2.5 strong)
Higher is better
United States: 1.191. Across the 209 countries in this edition, values run from -2.251 (South Sudan) to 2.092 (Singapore); the world median is 0.101.
- World median
- 0.101
- Best in Northern America
- 1.757 Canada
- Land neighbours
- Canada 1.757 · Mexico -0.181
Each grey tick is one of 209 countries in the 2025 edition.
Key 2 of 4
Statistical Performance Indicators
World Bank Group
Why it is a key: Whether a state can measure its own country. Nothing else here tests the capacity of the statistical system itself.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 4.0
90.06
SPI overall score (0–100)
Higher is better
United States: 90.06. Across the 188 countries in this edition, values run from 27.12 (South Sudan) to 94.14 (Norway); the world median is 69.3.
- World median
- 69.3
- Best in Northern America
- 92.36 Canada
- Land neighbours
- Canada 92.36 · Mexico 90.95
Each grey tick is one of 188 countries in the 2024 edition.
Key 3 of 4
Corruption Perceptions Index
Transparency International
Why it is a key: How much corruption the people who actually deal with a government perceive — an outcome, where the other keys measure the state’s capacity and the limits the law puts on it.
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 4.0 (the data), CC BY-ND 4.0 (the website and report)
64
CPI score (0–100, where 100 is very clean)
Higher is better
Ranked 29th of 181 by Transparency International
United States: 64. Across the 182 countries in this edition, values run from 9 (Somalia) to 89 (Denmark); the world median is 39.
- World median
- 39
- Best in Northern America
- 75 Canada
- Land neighbours
- Canada 75 · Mexico 27
Each grey tick is one of 182 countries in the 2025 edition.
Key 4 of 4
Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index
V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg
Why it is a key: Whether the executive respects the constitution and obeys the courts, and whether the courts can rule against it freely — the law binding those who write it.
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY-SA 4.0
0.844
Judicial constraints on the executive index (0–1)
Higher is better
United States: 0.844. Across the 176 countries in this edition, values run from 0.003 (Nicaragua) to 0.988 (Australia); the world median is 0.676.
- World median
- 0.676
- Best in Northern America
- 0.898 Canada
- Land neighbours
- Canada 0.898 · Mexico 0.265
Each grey tick is one of 176 countries in the 2025 edition.
02Over time
Which way United States is moving
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
Government Effectiveness
Governance estimate (−2.5 weak to 2.5 strong) · higher is better
United StatesWorld median
United States fell from 1.907 in 2000 to 1.191 in 2025; the world median went from -0.397 to 0.101.
Every year’s figures
Year United States World median 2025 1.1910 0.1006 2024 1.3021 0.0098 2023 1.2911 -0.0408 2022 1.3871 -0.0305 2021 1.3455 -0.0158 2020 1.3413 -0.0171 2019 1.5019 0.0150 2018 1.5839 0.0159 2017 1.5490 0.0158 2016 1.5478 0.0225 2015 1.5507 0.0038 2014 1.5727 0.0194 2013 1.5262 -0.0758 2012 1.5062 -0.0839 2011 1.4445 -0.1221 2010 1.4426 -0.1145 2009 1.4415 -0.1609 2008 1.5171 -0.2134 2007 1.5213 -0.3260 2006 1.5225 -0.3310 2005 1.5837 -0.3706 2004 1.5917 -0.3140 2003 1.6179 -0.4369 2002 1.9423 -0.3366 2000 1.9070 -0.3969 Statistical Performance Indicators
SPI overall score (0–100) · higher is better
United StatesWorld median
United States rose from 87.97 in 2016 to 90.06 in 2024; the world median went from 56.25 to 69.3.
Every year’s figures
Year United States World median 2024 90.1 69.30 2023 93.4 68.86 2022 91.9 67.99 2021 92.8 69.96 2020 86.9 62.91 2019 87.3 61.19 2018 87.2 61.17 2017 87.1 59.55 2016 88.0 56.25 Corruption Perceptions Index
CPI score (0–100, where 100 is very clean) · higher is better
United StatesWorld median
United States fell from 73 in 2012 to 64 in 2025; the world median went from 37 to 39.
Every year’s figures
Year United States World median 2025 64 39.0 2024 65 40.0 2023 69 40.0 2022 69 39.5 2021 67 39.0 2020 67 40.0 2019 69 39.5 2018 71 38.0 2017 75 38.5 2016 74 38.0 2015 76 37.0 2014 74 38.0 2013 73 38.0 2012 73 37.0 Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index
Judicial constraints on the executive index (0–1) · higher is better
United StatesWorld median
United States fell from 0.954 in 2000 to 0.844 in 2025; the world median went from 0.647 to 0.676.
Every year’s figures
Year United States World median 2025 0.844 0.6760 2024 0.902 0.6645 2023 0.930 0.6590 2022 0.930 0.6600 2021 0.930 0.6580 2020 0.928 0.6645 2019 0.947 0.6560 2018 0.948 0.6485 2017 0.931 0.6550 2016 0.962 0.6520 2015 0.961 0.6700 2014 0.961 0.6515 2013 0.961 0.6550 2012 0.953 0.6750 2011 0.953 0.6680 2010 0.953 0.6640 2009 0.951 0.6580 2008 0.947 0.6590 2007 0.947 0.6630 2006 0.949 0.6590 2005 0.949 0.6580 2004 0.949 0.6480 2003 0.949 0.6480 2002 0.949 0.6470 2001 0.949 0.6530 2000 0.954 0.6465
03In context
United States beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 194 countries on governance & institutions, never a place within the region.
United States and the countries it borders
The standing is each country’s place among all 194 placed on the topic; the other columns are the publishers’ own values, read at the edition the standing used.
| Country | Standing | Government EffectivenessGovernance estimate (−2.5 weak to 2.5 strong) | Statistical Performance IndicatorsSPI overall score (0–100) | Corruption Perceptions IndexCPI score (0–100, where 100 is very clean) | Judicial Constraints on the Executive IndexJudicial constraints on the executive index (0–1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Canada | 8th | 1.757 | 92.36 | 75 | 0.898 |
| United States | =25th | 1.191 | 90.06 | 64 | 0.844 |
 Mexico | =101st | -0.181 | 90.95 | 27 | 0.265 |
“—” means the publisher gives no reading for that country in that edition. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed.
Across Northern America
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 194.
- Canada8th
- United States=25th
Bermudanot placed
Greenlandnot placed
Placed either side on governance & institutions
The countries immediately above and below United States in the topic’s list.
Chile=23rd
Spain=23rd
Israel=25th- United States=25th
Portugal27th
Belgium28th
Latvia29th
04Context, no vote
Where United States is ahead of the world, and behind
21 more statistics filed under governance & institutions, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Ahead of the world median17
Statistics on which United States does better than the middle country measured.
Government AI Readiness IndexOxford Insights · 2025 · world median 40.1988.3640.19No real change since 2020
United States: 88.36 · world median 40.19 · AI readiness score (0–100). Oxford Insights, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 12.12 to 88.36; higher is better.
Ranked 1st of 195 by Oxford Insights.
Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN)Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame · 2024 · world median 0.3870.6320.387No real change since 2014
United States: 0.632 · world median 0.387 · ND-GAIN Readiness (0–1, where 1 is the most ready). Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.137 to 0.749; higher is better.
Ranked 20th of 192 by Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame.
Open Data InventoryOpen Data Watch · 2024 · world median 597859▼ Worsened since 2016
United States: 78 · world median 59 · ODIN overall score (0–100). Open Data Watch, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 19 to 90; higher is better.
Ranked 19th of 168 by Open Data Watch.
Political Corruption IndexV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2025 · world median 0.5180.060.518No real change since 2015
United States: 0.06 · world median 0.518 · Political corruption index (0–1; higher = more corrupt). V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.004 to 0.968; lower is better.
Position 155th of 176 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Completeness of Birth RegistrationUNICEF · 2025 · world median 98.410098.4No earlier reading
United States: 100 · world median 98.4 · Children under 5 whose birth is registered (%). UNICEF, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 2.7 to 100; higher is better.
Regulatory QualityWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median -0.0931.006-0.093▼ Worsened since 2015
United States: 1.006 · world median -0.093 · Regulatory Quality (−2.5 to 2.5). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -2.106 to 2.113; higher is better.
Position 32nd of 209 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Control of CorruptionWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median -0.1970.865-0.197▼ Worsened since 2015
United States: 0.865 · world median -0.197 · Control of Corruption (−2.5 to 2.5). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -2.096 to 2.259; higher is better.
Position 46th of 211 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Women, Business and the LawWorld Bank Group · 2024 · world median 81.2591.2581.25▲ Improved since 2014
United States: 91.25 · world median 81.25 · WBL Index (0–100, where 100 is full legal parity). World Bank Group, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 26.25 to 100; higher is better.
Position 41st of 190 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Rule of LawWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median -0.1020.791-0.102▼ Worsened since 2015
United States: 0.791 · world median -0.102 · Rule of Law estimate (−2.5 to 2.5). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -2.199 to 2.012; higher is better.
Position 49th of 211 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
V-Dem Electoral Democracy IndexV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2025 · world median 0.4970.7350.497▼ Worsened since 2015
United States: 0.735 · world median 0.497 · Electoral democracy index (0–1). V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.016 to 0.913; higher is better.
Position 46th of 176 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Social Protection CoverageILO · 2025 · world median 52.178.852.1No earlier reading
United States: 78.8 · world median 52.1 · Population covered by at least one social protection benefit (%). International Labour Organization (ILO), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 100; higher is better.
Voice and AccountabilityWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median -0.0220.645-0.022▼ Worsened since 2015
United States: 0.645 · world median -0.022 · Voice and Accountability estimate (−2.5 to 2.5). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -2.348 to 1.825; higher is better.
Position 59th of 206 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Liberal Democracy IndexV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2025 · world median 0.3530.5710.353▼ Worsened since 2015
United States: 0.571 · world median 0.353 · Liberal democracy index (0–1). V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.009 to 0.884; higher is better.
Position 51st of 176 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
GovTech Maturity IndexWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median 0.630.7710.63▼ Worsened since 2022
United States: 0.771 · world median 0.63 · GTMI score (0–1). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.01 to 0.997; higher is better.
Position 71st of 196 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
State Authority over TerritoryV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2025 · world median 95.397.4695.3▼ Worsened since 2015
United States: 97.46 · world median 95.3 · Territory under effective state control (% of official territory). V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 47.56 to 100; higher is better.
Agriculture Orientation IndexFAO · 2024 · world median 0.3050.370.305▲ Improved since 2014
United States: 0.37 · world median 0.305 · Agriculture orientation index (1.0 = spending matches sector size). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.03 to 5.38; higher is better.
Position 54th of 132 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Civic Space RatingsCIVICUS · 2025 · world median 50.4656.450.46No earlier reading
United States: 56.4 · world median 50.46 · Civic space score (0–100). CIVICUS, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 2.17 to 100; higher is better.
Position 88th of 198 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Behind the world median1
Statistics on which United States does worse than the middle country measured.
Trade Union DensityILO · 2020 · world median 16.6810.2916.68No earlier reading
United States: 10.29 · world median 16.68 · Employees who are trade union members (%). International Labour Organization (ILO), 2020 edition, data for 2020.
Published values in that edition run from 0.2 to 91.42; higher is better.
Position 100th of 139 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No better end3
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Public Sector Wage BillWorld Bank Group · 2022 · world median 7.9759.2577.975No real change since 2012
United States: 9.257 · world median 7.975 · Public sector wage bill (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 0.977 to 42.65.
Position 63rd of 168 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Public Sector EmploymentWorld Bank Group · 2022 · world median 15.0112.8815.01No earlier reading
United States: 12.88 · world median 15.01 · Public sector employment (% of total employment). World Bank Group, 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 1.672 to 47.1.
Position 76th of 135 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Central Bank Independence IndexAna Carolina Garriga, University of Essex · 2023 · world median 0.6080.3910.608Moved since 2013
United States: 0.391 · world median 0.608 · CBI index (0–1, where 1 is the most statutory independence). Ana Carolina Garriga, University of Essex, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.006 to 0.974.
No current reading for United States
Business Ready: Operational Efficiency, Business Ready: Public Services, Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, Debt Service on External Debt, External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), General Government Consumption (last 2024), Government Funding per Primary Student (last 2021) and Government Spending on Education (last 2021). Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
05Country Index 2026
Governance & Institutions among United States’s 15 topics
Governance & Institutions is United States’s 4th best-placed topic of 15. Strongest first; each marker sits at the position divided by that topic’s field, so fields of different sizes compare fairly.
- Mobility & Trade8th of 1473/3 keys
- Digital & Technology13th of 1983/3 keys
- Work & Labour14th of 1824/4 keys
- Governance & Institutionsjoint 25th of 1944/4 keys
- Food & Agriculturejoint 25th of 1754/4 keys
- Economy & Innovation28th of 1764/4 keys
- Health & Wellbeing32nd of 2004/4 keys
- Gender & Equalityjoint 41st of 1834/4 keys
- Development & Human Capital46th of 1963/3 keys
- Democracy & Civil Liberties57th of 1983/3 keys
- Energy64th of 1933/3 keys
- Risk & Resilience86th of 1923/3 keys
- Poverty & Inequality115th of 1592/2 keys
- Peace & Security136th of 1774/4 keys
- Environment & Sustainability171st of 1813/3 keys
No standing on Education & Knowledge: too few of those topics’ key statistics are published for this country.
06The top of the list
Who leads on governance & institutions
The three countries placed highest of 194, and the leaders United States can most readily be measured against.
1
DenmarkNorthern Europe
1st of 194 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: User:Aconcagua · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2
New ZealandAustralia and New Zealand
2nd of 194 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: Karora derivative work: Inkey · Public domain, greyscale
3
SwedenNorthern Europe
3rd of 194 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: User:Pieter Kuiper · Public domain, greyscale
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Americas
Canada8th4/4 keysThis page
United States=25th4/4 keys
Positions out of 194 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Analysis
Charts and analysis about United States and governance & institutions
08Questions
United States on governance & institutions: questions answered
Every answer is built from the numbers on this page, so none can say something the page does not.
How does United States rank on governance & institutions?
United States is placed joint 25th of 194 countries on Governance & Institutions in the Country Index 2026, from 4 of its 4 key statistics (Government Effectiveness, Statistical Performance Indicators, Corruption Perceptions Index and Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest Government Effectiveness figure for United States?
1.191 in 2025 (governance estimate (−2.5 weak to 2.5 strong)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 0.101.
What is the latest Statistical Performance Indicators figure for United States?
90.06 in 2024 (sPI overall score (0–100)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 69.3.
How does United States compare with Mexico on governance & institutions?
Mexico is placed joint 101st of 194, and United States joint 25th. Government Effectiveness: Mexico -0.181, United States 1.191; Statistical Performance Indicators: Mexico 90.95, United States 90.06; Corruption Perceptions Index: Mexico 27, United States 64; Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index: Mexico 0.265, United States 0.844.
How have United States’s governance & institutions figures changed?
Government Effectiveness fell from 1.907 in 2000 to 1.191 in 2025; Statistical Performance Indicators rose from 87.97 in 2016 to 90.06 in 2024; Corruption Perceptions Index fell from 73 in 2012 to 64 in 2025; Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index fell from 0.954 in 2000 to 0.844 in 2025.
Which governance & institutions statistics are missing for United States?
No current reading is published for United States on Business Ready: Operational Efficiency, Business Ready: Public Services, Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, Debt Service on External Debt, External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), General Government Consumption, Government Funding per Primary Student and Government Spending on Education. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
09Keep reading
Explore further
United States, topic by topic
- Economy & Innovation28th of 176
- Work & Labour14th of 182
- Health & Wellbeing32nd of 200
- Development & Human Capital46th of 196
- Environment & Sustainability171st of 181
- Gender & Equality=41st of 183
- Democracy & Civil Liberties57th of 198
- Peace & Security136th of 177
- Risk & Resilience86th of 192
- Mobility & Trade8th of 147
- Food & Agriculture=25th of 175
- Poverty & Inequality115th of 159
- Energy64th of 193
- Digital & Technology13th of 198
- The full United States profile
Nearby, on governance & institutions
The key statistics, for every country
10Method
Method, sources and how to cite
What this topic does not measure
Governance is not democracy. Free elections, civil liberties and press freedom belong to the Democracy & Civil Liberties topic, and a country can place well on one and poorly on the other. How openly official data is published sits here as context, beside the statistical capacity that is a key. Nor does this topic measure the size of government or how much it spends — the share of the economy run by the state is published on this page as context, with no better end.
How the Governance & Institutions standing is decided, step by step
A standing is a place in a list, not a mark out of anything. This one is part of the Country Index 2026, and it is worked out like this.
- A few key indicators decide it; the rest are context. 4 indicators on this topic are keys and 30 are charted alongside them without a vote. That split is the point: if every statistic voted, importing five more of one kind would quietly change what the topic is about.
- Each key is read at one edition. ⚠ The keys behind this standing do not all describe the same year — they run from 2024 to 2025, because publishers release on their own schedules. Read the standing as “how this country places now”, not as a snapshot of one year.
- Every country’s published value is turned into a place within that one key’s own field, and then expressed as a share of that field — how far down this key’s list the country sits, rather than how many countries are above it. Keys where a higher published number is worse (terrorism, hunger, disaster risk) are turned round first, so the good end is always the same end.
- Dividing by the field first is the whole reason this works. A place carries the size of its list inside it: 22nd of 44 and 108th of 215 are the same showing, and averaging the numbers 22 and 108 says loudly that they are not. Fields on this site run from about 44 countries to about 215, so averaging raw places would reward a country for happening to be measured in small ones. Dividing each place by its own field removes the size and leaves only the showing.
- The shares are averaged, plainly. One key, one vote — no key is weighted above another, because any weighting would be this site’s opinion presented as a measurement. Countries are then put in order by that average, and the average itself is never published. It is our arithmetic with nothing anchoring it, so printing it would invite it to be read as a measurement somebody made. The position it produces, the band, and the keys it was built from are all published instead — every one of them checkable against the tables on this page.
- A country needs 2 of this topic’s 4 keys — half, rounded up, and never fewer than 2. A standing built from one reading, printed beside one built from four, is two different things sharing a column heading. 194 countries clear the bar here.
- A key has to earn its vote every edition. It must measure at least 120 countries (below that it starts measuring who was surveyed rather than the world), it must not have more than 10% of its field tied at either end, and it must not repeat another key in the same topic — Spearman correlation above 0.92 counts as repeating. A topic needs at least 2 surviving keys to place anyone at all; this one has 4.
- A standing is relative, and the grouping is ours. It says where a country places against the others measured alongside it, so it moves when they move. The publishers listed on this page did not agree to be read together, and each measures its subject its own way: the underlying numbers are theirs, the ordering on top is this site’s — the same method as the rest of the Country Index, applied to one subject instead of all of them.
The key statistics and their licences
- Government Effectiveness — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- Statistical Performance Indicators — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- Corruption Perceptions Index — Transparency International, CC BY 4.0 (the data), CC BY-ND 4.0 (the website and report)
- Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index — V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0
The other 21 statistics on this page come from 10 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographs
United States’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- United States (banner) — Stefano Brivio, CC BY 2.0
- Denmark — User:Aconcagua, CC BY-SA 3.0
- New Zealand — Karora derivative work: Inkey, Public domain
- Sweden — User:Pieter Kuiper, Public domain
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). United States: Governance & Institutions — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/united-states/governance