Dataset · World Bank Group
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment
21 years, 2005–2025 · 78 countries
The Country Policy and Institutional Assessment is the World Bank’s own rating of how good a borrowing country’s policies and institutions are, averaged across sixteen criteria and scored from 1 to 6. It is what decides how much IDA money a country receives.
This site holds every year from 2005 to 2025, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment · the file
- Newest
- Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2025
- Held
- 21 years · 1,592 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0121 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
Show all 21 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2013 | 81 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2012 | 80 | +2 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2011 | 78 | +2 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2010 | 77 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2009 | 77 | +2 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2008 | 75 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2007 | 75 | −3 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2006 | 78 | +2 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2005 | 76 | — | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: cpia-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 78 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 78 | 0 | |
IDA Resource Allocation Index (1 = low to 6 = high)cpia_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: IDA Resource Allocation Index (1 = low to 6 = high). | Number · up to 6 decimals | 1.617 | 70 | 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.
0391 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 39 | 39 | 39 | 40 | 39 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 41 | 41 |
| Americas | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 |
| Asia | 17 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 16 |
| Europe | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Oceania | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| All | 76 | 76 | 73 | 74 | 73 | 75 | 73 | 72 | 74 | 74 | 77 | 78 |
The newest 12 of 21 years.
Who joined and who left
Not in this dataset · 134 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.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
21 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as cpia-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 6 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
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.
Pulled from the World Bank’s indicator API (IQ.CPA.IRAI.XQ). The 2008 edition arrives rounded to one decimal where every other edition carries six or more, so that year alone ties ten deep.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 6, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2005–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/cpia
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (IDA Resource Allocation Index). Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment: questions and answers
What is the Country Policy and Institutional Assessment?
The Country Policy and Institutional Assessment is the World Bank’s own rating of how good a borrowing country’s policies and institutions are, averaged across sixteen criteria and scored from 1 to 6. It is what decides how much IDA money a country receives.
Which years of the Country Policy and Institutional Assessment can I download?
All 21, from 2005 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.