Dataset · World Bank Group

Political Stability and Absence of Violence

27 years, 1996–2025 · 211 countries · 2 measures

Political Stability and Absence of Violence is the World Bank’s estimate of how likely a government is to be brought down by unconstitutional or violent means, including politically motivated violence and terrorism. It is scored from −2.5 to 2.5 across 200 countries, back to 1996.

This site holds every year from 1996 to 2025, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Political Stability and Absence of Violence · the file

Newest: Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2025
Held: 27 years · 5,539 rows
Licence: CC BY 4.0

27years held
1996–2025years
5,539rows across every year
211countries in the newest
2measures per country
CC BY 4.0licence

0127 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

1996bar height: countries covered, up to 2112025

Every year of Political Stability and Absence of Violence held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2025Newest	211	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2024	211	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2023	211	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2022	211	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2021	211	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2020	211	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2019	211	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2018	210	+3	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2017	207	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2016	207	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2015	207	−2	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2014	209	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV

Show all 27 years

Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2013	209	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2012	209	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2011	209	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2010	208	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2009	208	+3	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2008	205	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2007	205	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2006	205	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2005	205	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2004	205	+5	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2003	200	+10	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2002	190	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 2000	189	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 1998	188	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 1996	187	—	September 26, 2026	CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: political-stability-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

024 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Political Stability and Absence of Violence: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	211
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	211
Political Stability and Absence of Violence (−2.5 to 2.5)`political_stability`Headline	The headline figure: Political Stability estimate (−2.5 to 2.5).	Number · up to 18 decimals	-2.50634Yemen1.56343Andorramiddle 0.17060	210
Governance Score, Political Stability and Absence of Violence (0–100)`governance_score`Measure	Political stability estimate rescaled by the World Bank onto a fixed 0–100 scale anchored by benchmark countries, 100 best; not a percentile.	Number · up to 15 decimals	21.690Yemen93.003Andorramiddle 68.597	210

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

03211 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions

Countries in each year of Political Stability and Absence of Violence, by continent.
	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Africa	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54
Americas	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42
Asia	51	51	51	51	51	51	51	51	51	51	51	51
Europe	44	44	44	44	44	44	44	44	44	44	44	44
Oceania	18	16	16	16	19	20	20	20	20	20	20	20
All	209	207	207	207	210	211	211	211	211	211	211	211

The newest 12 of 27 years.

Who joined and who left

2019
+ French Polynesia
2018
+ Cook Islands+ New Caledonia+ Niue
2015
− Cook Islands− Niue
2011
+ South Sudan
2009
+ Cook Islands+ Greenland+ Niue
2004
+ Aruba+ Anguilla+ American Samoa+ Guam+ United States Virgin Islands
2003
+ Micronesia+ Kiribati+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Monaco+ Marshall Islands+ Nauru+ Palau+ San Marino+ Tonga+ Tuvalu
2002
+ Kosovo

Not in this dataset · 13 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

British Virgin Islands Channel Islands

Northern Mariana Islands

Saint Martin

Sint Maarten Somaliland

Turks and Caicos Islands

Vatican City

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
worldbank.org
2 · Their file
Political Stability and Absence of Violence 2025
WB_WGI_WIDEF.csv
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
27 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as political-stability-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/political-stabilityA key for Peace & Security in the Country Index.

Precision

The headline is stored to 18 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

One of the six Worldwide Governance Indicators; the same figures also appear as a column of the Government Effectiveness table. The Bank’s 0–100 governance score is a rescaled estimate on a fixed scale — not a percentile and not a league place.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 7, 2026

CC BY 4.0

Share and redistribute it
Adapt it and build on it
Use it commercially
Credit the publisher
Say what you changed

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A credit line

Source: World Bank Group, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. Political Stability and Absence of Violence, 1996–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/political-stability

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Worldwide Governance Indicators. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

Charted
Political Stability and Absence of Violence by country
Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
In the Country Index
A key for Peace & Security
“Whether a country is at risk of violent upheaval — politically motivated violence, terrorism and the threat of destabilisation. It is the closest measure this site has to whether a state is at peace with itself.”
Peace & Security standings
Subjects
- Peace & Security
- Risk & Resilience
Near neighbours
- Physical Violence IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
- Political Violence by Non-State ActorsV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
- Global Militarisation IndexBICC · 34 held · 1990–2023

March 21, 2025
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07Questions