Data · Governance
Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate (approx. -2.5 to +2.5): Vietnam, 1996–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 0.18 index points
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- GOV_WGI_GE.EST
- Frequency
- Yearly
What the series shows
The series runs from 1996 to 2025 (27 years of data). It moved from -0.59 to 0.18 index points, a change of 129.7%. The highest value was 0.18 in 2025 and the lowest -0.73 in 2002. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (index points) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | -0.13 |
| 2023 | -0.19 |
| 2022 | -0.12 |
| 2021 | -0.01 |
| 2020 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 0.00 |
| 2018 | -0.02 |
| 2017 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 0.02 |
| 2015 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | -0.28 |
| 2012 | -0.29 |
| 2011 | -0.28 |
| 2010 | -0.30 |
| 2009 | -0.26 |
| 2008 | -0.30 |
| 2007 | -0.43 |
| 2006 | -0.42 |
| 2005 | -0.46 |
| 2004 | -0.65 |
| 2003 | -0.69 |
| 2002 | -0.73 |
| 2000 | -0.71 |
| 1998 | -0.50 |
| 1996 | -0.59 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 0.18 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 0.26 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 0.26 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 0.96 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 0.19 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 2.09 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | -0.40 |
| Laos | 2025 | -0.59 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | -1.62 |
| China | 2025 | 0.62 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate (approx. -2.5 to +2.5), Vietnam [Data set]. Worldwide Governance Indicators. https://databank.worldbank.org/source/worldwide-governance-indicators
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name wgi_ge_est, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.