Voice and Accountability

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: voice-and-accountability-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Voice and Accountability: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	206	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	206	0
Voice and Accountability (−2.5 to 2.5)voice_and_accountabilityHeadline	The headline figure: Voice and Accountability estimate (−2.5 to 2.5).	Number · up to 18 decimals	-2.3479Eritrea1.8246Norwaymiddle -0.0222	205	0
Governance Score, Voice and Accountability (0–100)governance_scoreMeasure	Voice and accountability 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	14.635Eritrea91.206Norwaymiddle 57.315	205	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.

The newest 12 of 27 years.

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 IslandsChannel IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsGibraltarIsle of ManMontserratNorthern Mariana IslandsSaint MartinSint MaartenSomalilandTurks and Caicos IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Voice and Accountability 2025

   WB_WGI_WIDEF.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 26, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   27 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as voice-and-accountability-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/voice-and-accountability

One of the six Worldwide Governance Indicators; the same figures also appear as a column of the Government Effectiveness table, where all six dimensions can be read side by side.

• Charted

  Voice and Accountability by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Democracy & Civil Liberties
  • Governance & Institutions

• Near neighbours

  • V-Dem Electoral Democracy IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
  • Rule of LawWorld Bank Group · 27 held · 1996–2025
  • Civic Space RatingsCIVICUS · 1 held · 2025

• 
  May 29, 2025

  WJP Rule of Law Index 2024: Which Countries Lead in Justice and Accountability?

  The thirteen strongest of the 142 countries the World Justice Project measures, and the eight factors the overall score averages. Four countries are published at 0.83 and still carry separate ranks.