Data for 2008

Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2008

Name: Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2008
Creator: World Bank Group
License: https://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use

Figures for 2008, as World Bank Group published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2008 covers 75 countries. 2 countries share the highest reading, 4.4; Zimbabwe is lowest, at 1.4. The middle country reads 3.4. Against 2007, 72 values changed (38 up, 34 down), the same countries are covered.

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Country Policy and Institutional Assessment · Data for 2008

Highest2 countries share it

4.4

LowestZimbabwe

1.4

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

75countries
1measure
2008the year it describes
20distinct values1 decimal, as published
Sep 6, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2008, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Showing 25 of 75 countries · select a heading to sort

Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2008: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
=1	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	4.4
=1	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	4.4
3	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	4.2
4	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	4.0
=5	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	3.9
=5	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	3.9
=5	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	3.9
=5	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	3.9
=5	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	3.9
=10	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	3.8
=10	Bolivia`BOL`South America	3.8
=10	India`IND`Southern Asia	3.8
=10	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	3.8
=10	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	3.8
=10	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	3.8
=10	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	3.8
=10	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	3.8
=18	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	3.7
=18	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	3.7
=18	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	3.7
=18	Honduras`HND`Central America	3.7
=18	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	3.7
=18	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	3.7
=18	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	3.7
=18	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	3.7
=18	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	3.7
=27	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	3.6
=27	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	3.6
=27	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	3.6
=30	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	3.5
=30	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	3.5
=30	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	3.5
=33	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	3.4
=33	Guyana`GUY`South America	3.4
=33	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	3.4
=33	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	3.4
=33	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	3.4
=33	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	3.4
=39	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	3.3
=39	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	3.3
=39	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	3.3
=39	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	3.3
=39	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	3.3
=39	Niger`NER`Western Africa	3.3
=39	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	3.3
=39	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	3.3
=39	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	3.3
=39	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	3.3
=49	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	3.2
=49	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	3.2
=49	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	3.2
=49	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	3.2
=49	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	3.2
=54	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	3.1
=54	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	3.1
=56	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	3.0
=56	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	3.0
=56	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	3.0
=56	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	3.0
60	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	2.9
=61	Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	2.8
=61	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	2.8
=63	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	2.7
=63	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	2.7
=63	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	2.7
=63	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	2.7
=63	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	2.7
=68	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	2.6
=68	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	2.6
=70	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	2.5
=70	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	2.5
=70	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	2.5
=73	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	2.3
=73	Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	2.3
75	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	1.4

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Armeniashared4.4
1Georgiashared4.4
3Cabo Verde4.2
4Samoa4.0
5Bhutanshared3.9

Lowest

75Zimbabwe1.4
73Eritreashared2.3
73Comorosshared2.3
70Chadshared2.5
70Sudanshared2.5

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 3.4. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −0countries joined / left
72values changed, of 75 in both
38 · 34rose · fell
3unchanged

Rose most

Tonga3.0 → 3.2+0.2
Togo2.5 → 2.7+0.2
Uzbekistan3.1 → 3.3+0.2
Laos3.1 → 3.3+0.2
Côte d’Ivoire2.6 → 2.7+0.2

Fell most

Pakistan3.6 → 3.3−0.3
Zimbabwe1.7 → 1.4−0.3
Maldives3.6 → 3.4−0.2
Nepal3.4 → 3.3−0.1
DR Congo2.8 → 2.7−0.1

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

20 distinct values among 75
Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 10 countries share 3.3. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
The position is ours
World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 75 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.

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The publisher’s original
World Bank Group’s own file, on its own site.
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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: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2008). Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/cpia/2008

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How it has moved, charted by country

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