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Topic 01 of 12 · Country Index 2026
Palestine: Governance & Institutions
How well is the state actually run?
Palestine is placed joint 102nd of 193 countries on governance & institutions in the Country Index 2026, from 4 of its 5 key statistics. Readings behind it: Government Effectiveness -1.099 (2024); Government AI Readiness Index 35.54 (2025).
Governance & Institutions
joint102nd
of 193 countries placed
Placed from 4 of 5 key statistics
Not placed in the Country Index 2026 overall: measured on too few topics.
- -1.099Government Effectiveness, 2024Governance estimate (−2.5 weak to 2.5 strong)
- 35.54Government AI Readiness Index, 2025AI readiness score (0–100)
- 74.4Statistical Performance Indicators, 2024SPI overall score (0–100)
- —Corruption Perceptions Index, 2025No reading for this country
- 75Open Data Inventory, 2024ODIN overall score (0–100)
01The evidence
The 5 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Palestine 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 in that edition, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 5
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.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 4.0
-1.099
Governance estimate (−2.5 weak to 2.5 strong)
Higher is better
Palestine: -1.099. Across the 209 countries in this edition, values run from -2.173 (South Sudan) to 2.28 (Singapore); the world median is 0.01.
- World median
- 0.01
- Best in Western Asia
- 1.26 United Arab Emirates
- Land neighbours
- Egypt -0.097 · Israel 1.173 · Jordan 0.216
Each grey tick is one of 209 countries in the 2024 edition.
Key 2 of 5
Government AI Readiness Index
Oxford Insights
Why it is a key: Government capacity to adopt modern technology in public service delivery. Correlates 0.835 with Statistical Performance, inside the 0.92 bar, and kept because readiness to use data is not the same as the ability to collect it.
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY-SA 4.0
35.54
AI readiness score (0–100)
Higher is better
Ranked 115th of 195 by Oxford Insights
Palestine: 35.54. Across the 195 countries in this edition, values run from 12.12 (Guinea-Bissau) to 88.36 (United States); the world median is 40.19.
- World median
- 40.19
- Best in Western Asia
- 71.57 Saudi Arabia
- Land neighbours
- Egypt 59.1 · Israel 71.32 · Jordan 56.07
Each grey tick is one of 195 countries in the 2025 edition.
Key 3 of 5
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
74.4
SPI overall score (0–100)
Higher is better
Palestine: 74.4. 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 Western Asia
- 90.29 Israel
- Land neighbours
- Egypt 78.14 · Israel 90.29 · Jordan 78.81
Each grey tick is one of 188 countries in the 2024 edition.
Key 4 of 5
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 rest of this topic measures capacity.
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 4.0 (the data), CC BY-ND 4.0 (the website and report)
No reading
CPI score (0–100, where 100 is very clean)
Higher is better
Transparency International publishes no 2025 figure for Palestine, so the standing rests on the other keys.
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 Western Asia
- 69 United Arab Emirates
- Land neighbours
- Egypt 30 · Israel 62 · Jordan 50
Each grey tick is one of 182 countries in the 2025 edition.
Key 5 of 5
Open Data Inventory
Open Data Watch
Why it is a key: Whether official statistics are published openly and usably, which is a separate question from whether they are produced at all.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 4.0
75
ODIN overall score (0–100)
Higher is better
Ranked 31st of 168 by Open Data Watch
Palestine: 75. Across the 168 countries in this edition, values run from 19 (Turkmenistan) to 90 (Poland); the world median is 59.
- World median
- 59
- Best in Western Asia
- 85 United Arab Emirates
- Land neighbours
- Egypt 53 · Israel 74 · Jordan 72
Each grey tick is one of 168 countries in the 2024 edition.
02Over time
Which way Palestine 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
PalestineWorld median
Palestine rose from -1.312 in 2000 to -1.099 in 2024; the world median went from -0.316 to 0.01.
Every year’s figures
Year Palestine World median 2024 -1.0986 0.0100 2023 -1.0420 -0.0178 2022 -0.7156 -0.0433 2021 -0.6290 -0.0445 2020 -0.4498 -0.0570 2019 -0.4472 0.0008 2018 -0.4656 -0.0850 2017 -0.1395 -0.0494 2016 -0.3088 -0.0573 2015 -0.2500 -0.0652 2014 -0.2719 -0.0643 2013 -0.4667 -0.1437 2012 -0.4730 -0.1872 2011 -0.4515 -0.2491 2010 -0.1372 -0.2029 2009 -0.3891 -0.2422 2008 -0.8471 -0.2768 2007 -0.7853 -0.2973 2006 -0.8675 -0.3138 2005 -0.9673 -0.3488 2004 -0.4664 -0.2985 2003 -1.3246 -0.4232 2002 -1.3117 -0.3086 2000 -1.3120 -0.3159 Government AI Readiness Index
AI readiness score (0–100) · higher is better
PalestineWorld median
Palestine rose from 33.14 in 2023 to 35.54 in 2025; the world median went from 41.37 to 40.19.
Every year’s figures
Year Palestine World median 2025 36 40.2 2024 38 43.3 2023 33 41.4 2022 — 40.3 2021 — 44.1 2020 — 39.6 Statistical Performance Indicators
SPI overall score (0–100) · higher is better
PalestineWorld median
Palestine rose from 58.51 in 2017 to 74.4 in 2024; the world median went from 59.55 to 69.3.
Every year’s figures
Year Palestine World median 2024 74.4 69.30 2023 76.3 68.86 2022 74.9 67.99 2021 77.9 69.96 2020 73.2 62.91 2019 66.8 61.19 2018 67.0 61.17 2017 58.5 59.55 2016 — 56.25 Open Data Inventory
ODIN overall score (0–100) · higher is better
PalestineWorld median
Palestine rose from 32 in 2015 to 75 in 2024; the world median went from 32 to 59.
Every year’s figures
Year Palestine World median 2024 75 59 2022 71 51 2020 72 50 2018 56 44 2017 43 38 2016 43 39 2015 32 32
03In context
Palestine beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 193 countries on governance & institutions, never a place within the region.
1st193rdNot placed · 31 countries with too few key statisticsNo data
Palestine and the countries it borders
The standing is each country’s place among all 193 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) | Government AI Readiness IndexAI readiness score (0–100) | Statistical Performance IndicatorsSPI overall score (0–100) | Corruption Perceptions IndexCPI score (0–100, where 100 is very clean) | Open Data InventoryODIN overall score (0–100) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Israel | 23rd | 1.173 | 71.32 | 90.29 | 62 | 74 |
 Jordan | 47th | 0.216 | 56.07 | 78.81 | 50 | 72 |
 Egypt | 99th | -0.097 | 59.1 | 78.14 | 30 | 53 |
| Palestine | =102nd | -1.099 | 35.54 | 74.4 | — | 75 |
“—” means the publisher gives no reading for that country in that edition. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed.
Across Western Asia
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 193.
Placed either side on governance & institutions
The countries immediately above and below Palestine in the topic’s list.
04Context, no vote
Where Palestine is ahead of the world, and behind
12 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 median2
Statistics on which Palestine does better than the middle country measured.
Trade Union DensityILO · 2020 · world median 16.6821.2816.68No earlier reading
Palestine: 21.28 · 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 52nd of 139 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Completeness of Birth RegistrationUNICEF · 2025 · world median 98.499.298.4No earlier reading
Palestine: 99.2 · 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.
Behind the world median9
Statistics on which Palestine does worse than the middle country measured.
Regulatory QualityWorld Bank Group · 2024 · world median -0.09-0.468-0.09▼ Worsened since 2014
Palestine: -0.468 · world median -0.09 · Regulatory Quality (−2.5 to 2.5). World Bank Group, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from -2.035 to 2.132; higher is better.
Position 136th of 209 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Social Protection CoverageILO · 2025 · world median 52.116.552.1No earlier reading
Palestine: 16.5 · 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.
Rule of LawWorld Bank Group · 2024 · world median -0.1-0.989-0.1▼ Worsened since 2014
Palestine: -0.989 · world median -0.1 · Rule of Law estimate (−2.5 to 2.5). World Bank Group, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from -2.205 to 2.021; higher is better.
Position 168th of 211 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Business Ready: Operational EfficiencyWorld Bank Group · 2024 · world median 65.8252.7565.82No earlier reading
Palestine: 52.75 · world median 65.82 · Operational efficiency score (0–100). World Bank Group, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 40.36 to 87.33; higher is better.
Position 41st of 50 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Voice and AccountabilityWorld Bank Group · 2024 · world median -0.02-1.346-0.02▼ Worsened since 2014
Palestine: -1.346 · world median -0.02 · Voice and Accountability estimate (−2.5 to 2.5). World Bank Group, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from -2.29 to 1.929; higher is better.
Position 182nd of 208 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Business Ready: Public ServicesWorld Bank Group · 2024 · world median 50.1328.4250.13No earlier reading
Palestine: 28.42 · world median 50.13 · Public services score (0–100). World Bank Group, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 18.35 to 73.31; higher is better.
Position 45th of 50 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Civic Space RatingsCIVICUS · 2025 · world median 50.4612.5550.46No earlier reading
Palestine: 12.55 · 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 180th of 198 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Business Ready: Regulatory FrameworkWorld Bank Group · 2024 · world median 66.847.4766.8No earlier reading
Palestine: 47.47 · world median 66.8 · Regulatory framework score (0–100). World Bank Group, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 46.21 to 78.34; higher is better.
Position 49th of 50 — 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 81.2526.2581.25No real change since 2014
Palestine: 26.25 · 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 190th of 190 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No better end1
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
General Government ConsumptionWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median 16.2117.0516.21Moved since 2015
Palestine: 17.05 · world median 16.21 · General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 5.445 to 38.94.
Position 61st of 132 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No current reading for Palestine
Agriculture Orientation Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, Debt Service on External Debt, External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), Government Funding per Primary Student, Government Spending on Education (last 2021), Public Sector Employment, Public Sector Wage Bill and V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index. Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
05Country Index 2026
Governance & Institutions among Palestine’s 8 topics
Governance & Institutions is Palestine’s 3rd best-placed topic of 8. Strongest first; each marker sits at the position divided by that topic’s field, so fields of different sizes compare fairly.
- Environment & Sustainability31st of 1612/3 keys
- Education & Knowledge44th of 1822/4 keys
- Governance & Institutionsjoint 102nd of 1934/5 keys
- Development & Human Capital107th of 1943/3 keys
- Health & Wellbeingjoint 155th of 2013/4 keys
- Economy & Innovationjoint 134th of 1502/3 keys
- Democracy & Civil Liberties177th of 1982/3 keys
- Gender & Equality172nd of 1782/3 keys
No standing on Work & Labour, Peace & Security, Risk & Resilience, Mobility & Connectivity: 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 193, and the leaders Palestine can most readily be measured against.
1
DenmarkNorthern Europe
1st of 193 · 5 of 5 keys
Photo: User:Aconcagua · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2
NorwayNorthern Europe
2nd of 193 · 5 of 5 keys
Photo: Ximonic , Simo Räsänen · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3
FinlandNorthern Europe
3rd of 193 · 5 of 5 keys
Photo: Joonas Lyytinen · CC BY-SA 2.5, greyscale
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Asia
Singapore4th4/5 keysHighest in Western Asia
Israel23rd5/5 keysThis page
Palestine=102nd4/5 keys
Positions out of 193 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 Palestine and governance & institutions
08Questions
Palestine 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 Palestine rank on governance & institutions?
Palestine is placed joint 102nd of 193 countries on Governance & Institutions in the Country Index 2026, from 4 of its 5 key statistics (Government Effectiveness, Government AI Readiness Index, Statistical Performance Indicators and Open Data Inventory). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest Government Effectiveness figure for Palestine?
-1.099 in 2024 (governance estimate (−2.5 weak to 2.5 strong)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 0.01.
What is the latest Government AI Readiness Index figure for Palestine?
35.54 in 2025 (aI readiness score (0–100)), according to Oxford Insights. The world median in the same edition was 40.19.
How does Palestine compare with Egypt on governance & institutions?
Egypt is placed 99th of 193, and Palestine joint 102nd. Government Effectiveness: Egypt -0.097, Palestine -1.099; Government AI Readiness Index: Egypt 59.1, Palestine 35.54; Statistical Performance Indicators: Egypt 78.14, Palestine 74.4; Open Data Inventory: Egypt 53, Palestine 75.
How have Palestine’s governance & institutions figures changed?
Government Effectiveness rose from -1.312 in 2000 to -1.099 in 2024; Government AI Readiness Index rose from 33.14 in 2023 to 35.54 in 2025; Statistical Performance Indicators rose from 58.51 in 2017 to 74.4 in 2024; Open Data Inventory rose from 32 in 2015 to 75 in 2024.
Which governance & institutions statistics are missing for Palestine?
No current reading is published for Palestine on Agriculture Orientation Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, Debt Service on External Debt, External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), Government Funding per Primary Student, Government Spending on Education, Public Sector Employment, Public Sector Wage Bill and V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
09Keep reading
Explore further
Palestine, topic by topic
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. 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. 5 indicators on this topic are keys and 21 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 3 of this topic’s 5 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. 193 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 5.
- 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
- Government AI Readiness Index — Oxford Insights, CC BY-SA 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)
- Open Data Inventory — Open Data Watch, CC BY 4.0
The other 12 statistics on this page come from 4 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
Palestine’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Palestine (banner) — KlausFoehl derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Denmark — User:Aconcagua, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Norway — Ximonic , Simo Räsänen, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Finland — Joonas Lyytinen, CC BY-SA 2.5
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Palestine: Governance & Institutions — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/palestine/governance