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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.

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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.

2005bar height: countries covered, up to 812025
Every year of Country Policy and Institutional Assessment held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2025Newest78+1September 6, 2026CSV
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 202477+3September 6, 2026CSV
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 202374±0September 6, 2026CSV
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 202274+2September 6, 2026CSV
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 202172−1September 6, 2026CSV
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 202073+1 −3September 6, 2026CSV
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 201975+2September 6, 2026CSV
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 201873−1September 6, 2026CSV
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 201774+1September 6, 2026CSV
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 201673−3September 6, 2026CSV
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 201576±0September 6, 2026CSV
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 201476−5September 6, 2026CSV
Show all 21 years

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.

Every column in the newest file of Country Policy and Institutional Assessment: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—780
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—780
IDA Resource Allocation Index (1 = low to 6 = high)cpia_scoreHeadlineThe headline figure: IDA Resource Allocation Index (1 = low to 6 = high).Number · up to 6 decimals1.617Sudan4.225Rwandamiddle 3.246700

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.

All regions
Countries in each year of Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, by continent.
201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Africa393939403940404040404141
Americas99888888881010
Asia171715151516141315151516
Europe222222111111
Oceania999999101010101010
All767673747375737274747778

The newest 12 of 21 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2025
    + Syria
  • 2024
    + Belize+ Suriname+ Eswatini
  • 2022
    + Afghanistan+ Sri Lanka
  • 2021
    − Afghanistan
  • 2020
    + Fiji− Sri Lanka− Moldova− Mongolia
  • 2019
    + Sri Lanka+ Somalia
  • 2018
    − Somalia
  • 2017
    + Somalia

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    World Bank Group

  2. 2 · Their file

    Country Policy and Institutional Assessment 2025

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 6, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    21 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as cpia-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 6, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • 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.

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