Central Bank Independence Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: central-bank-independence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Central Bank Independence Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	191	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	191	0
CBI, unweighted (0–1)cbi_unweightedHeadline	The headline figure: CBI index (0–1, where 1 is the most statutory independence).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.006Tuvalu0.974Bosnia and Herzegovinamiddle 0.608	131	0
CBI, weighted (0–1)cbi_weightedMeasure	Same statutory independence reading with its components weighted on the Cukierman–Webb–Neyapti scheme, from 0 to 1, where 1 is the most independence.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.011Tuvalu0.979Bosnia and Herzegovinamiddle 0.599	140	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. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 54 years.

Not in this dataset · 33 places this site covers

Ana Carolina Garriga 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 SamoaAndorraBritish Virgin IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHong KongIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPuerto RicoSaint MartinSint MaartenSomalilandTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Ana Carolina Garriga, University of Essex

   doi.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Central Bank Independence Index 2023

   11077818

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

   54 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as central-bank-independence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/central-bank-independence

From the author’s own Harvard Dataverse deposit. Only her two index columns are republished — the unweighted headline and the weighted variant beside it; the deposit’s merged economic and political series belong to other publishers and are left out.

• Charted

  Central Bank Independence Index by country

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

• Subjects

  • Money & Public Finance
  • Governance & Institutions

• Near neighbours

  • Account Ownership at a Financial InstitutionWorld Bank Group · 5 held · 2011–2024
  • Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of CreditWorld Bank Group · 1 held · 2025
  • Net Official Development Assistance ReceivedOECD Development Assistance Committee · 58 held · 1966–2023