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Central Bank Independence Index, 1996

Figures for 1996, as Ana Carolina Garriga published them · stored as published, never rewritten

The Central Bank Independence Index reads each country’s central bank law and scores how far it shields the bank from the government, from 0 to 1. Coded by Ana Carolina Garriga at the University of Essex on the standard Cukierman–Webb–Neyapti scheme, it covers nearly every country back to 1970.

Central Bank Independence Index, 1996 covers 172 countries on 2 measures. Armenia is highest, at 0.889; Tuvalu is lowest, at 0.006. The middle country reads 0.450. Against 1995, 9 values changed (9 up, 0 down), 2 countries joined, 1 left.

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Central Bank Independence Index · Data for 1996

HighestArmenia

0.889

LowestTuvalu

0.006

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Central Bank Independence Index, 1996, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 172 countries · select a heading to sort

Central Bank Independence Index, 1996: every country, as published by Ana Carolina Garriga, University of Essex.
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia0.8890.847
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.8540.866
EcuadorECUSouth America0.8270.882
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.8230.803
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.8140.874
PeruPERSouth America0.8110.798
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.7950.715
BoliviaBOLSouth America0.7850.797
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.7830.848
BelarusBLREastern Europe0.7690.728
SpainESPSouthern Europe0.7490.832
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe0.7390.688
Costa RicaCRICentral America0.7350.734
ChileCHLSouth America0.7330.819
ColombiaCOLSouth America0.7330.693
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe0.7150.694
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia0.7110.735
ItalyITASouthern Europe0.7010.695
UruguayURYSouth America0.6980.712
HondurasHNDCentral America0.6940.671
HungaryHUNEastern Europe0.6940.625
VenezuelaVENSouth America0.6920.769
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia0.6850.634
El SalvadorSLVCentral America0.6830.789
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia0.6770.637

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. Armenia0.889
  2. Estonia0.854
  3. Ecuador0.827
  4. Argentina0.823
  5. France0.814

Lowest

  1. Tuvalu0.006
  2. Thailand0.077
  3. Bermuda0.100
  4. Morocco0.114
  5. San Marino0.131

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.450. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • CBI, weighted (0–1)

    HighestEcuador0.882

    LowestTuvalu0.011

    Middle country: 0.460

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −1countries joined / left
  • 9values changed, of 170 in both
  • 9 · 0rose · fell
  • 161unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • None.
+ Cayman Islands+ Cambodia− DR Congo

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • 134 distinct values among 172

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 8 countries share 0.633. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 172 countries has every column.

05The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC0 1.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

Ana Carolina Garriga, University of Essex (1996). Central Bank Independence Index, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/central-bank-independence/1996

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