Dataset · World Bank Group
Statistical Performance Indicators
9 years, 2016–2024 · 188 countries
The Statistical Performance Indicators score how well a country’s own statistical system works, out of 100, across data use, services, products, sources and infrastructure. It is the only measure here whose subject is the production of data itself — which makes it a useful caution to read beside every other number on this site.
This site holds every year from 2016 to 2024, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Statistical Performance Indicators · the file
- Newest
- Statistical Performance Indicators, 2024
- Held
- 9 years · 1,613 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
019 years
Every year
Every year comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statistical Performance Indicators, 2024Newest | 188 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Statistical Performance Indicators, 2023 | 187 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Statistical Performance Indicators, 2022 | 187 | +6 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Statistical Performance Indicators, 2021 | 181 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Statistical Performance Indicators, 2020 | 181 | +7 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Statistical Performance Indicators, 2019 | 174 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Statistical Performance Indicators, 2018 | 174 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Statistical Performance Indicators, 2017 | 174 | +7 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Statistical Performance Indicators, 2016 | 167 | — | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: statistical-performance-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 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.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 188 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 188 | 0 | |
SPI overall score (0–100)spi_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: SPI overall score (0–100). | Number · up to 13 decimals | 27.123 South Sudan94.143 Norwaymiddle 69.303 | 188 | 0 |
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.
03188 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.
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 47 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 51 | 51 | 52 | 52 | 53 |
| Americas | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 34 |
| Asia | 43 | 46 | 46 | 46 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 |
| Europe | 38 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Oceania | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| All | 167 | 174 | 174 | 174 | 181 | 181 | 187 | 187 | 188 |
Who joined and who left
+ Comoros
+ Andorra
+ Barbados
+ Central African Republic
+ Grenada
+ Nauru
+ Tuvalu
+ Antigua and Barbuda
+ Brunei
+ Dominica
+ Equatorial Guinea
+ Saint Kitts and Nevis
+ Palau
+ Tonga
+ DR Congo
+ Palestine
+ Romania
+ Somalia
+ Seychelles
+ Syria
+ Timor-LesteNot in this dataset · 36 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.
American Samoa
Anguilla
Aruba
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Cuba
Curaçao
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Hong Kong
Isle of Man
Kosovo
Liechtenstein
Macau
Monaco
Montserrat
New Caledonia
Niue
North Korea
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Saint Martin
San Marino
Sint MaartenSomaliland
Taiwan
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Statistical Performance Indicators 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
9 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as statistical-performance-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/statistical-performanceA key for Governance & Institutions in the Country Index.
Precision
The headline is stored to 13 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.
Pulled from the World Bank’s indicator API (IQ.SPI.OVRL). The SPI was introduced in 2021 and back-computed to 2016, and each release recalculates the whole panel rather than adding an edition.
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.
Licence · checked August 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Statistical Performance Indicators, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Statistical Performance Indicators, 2016–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/statistical-performance
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Statistical Performance 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
Statistical Performance Indicators by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
In the Country Index
A key for Governance & Institutions
“Whether a state can measure its own country. Nothing else here tests the capacity of the statistical system itself.”
Governance & Institutions standingsSubjects
Near neighbours
- Women, Business and the LawWorld Bank Group · 54 held · 1971–2024
- Government Spending on EducationUIS · 51 held · 1971–2023
- Judicial Constraints on the Executive IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
07Questions
Statistical Performance Indicators: questions and answers
What is the Statistical Performance Indicators?
The Statistical Performance Indicators score how well a country’s own statistical system works, out of 100, across data use, services, products, sources and infrastructure. It is the only measure here whose subject is the production of data itself — which makes it a useful caution to read beside every other number on this site.
Which years of the Statistical Performance Indicators can I download?
All 9, from 2016 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.