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Report year 2019Data year 2019
IDA Resource Allocation Index (1 = low to 6 = high)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by World Bank Group
21 editions (2005–2025), covering 72 to 81 countries, from the World Bank via its indicator API (IQ.CPA.IRAI.XQ). The Bank’s own rating of how good a borrowing country’s policies and institutions are, averaged across sixteen criteria and scored 1 to 6. ⚠ IT COVERS IDA-ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES ONLY — roughly 75 low-income borrowers. This is not a world table with gaps in it; it is a complete table of one group, and a country’s absence means it does not borrow from IDA. Reading a country’s position as a world rank would be wrong. ⚠ IT IS AN ASSESSMENT BY THE LENDER, scored by Bank staff and used to allocate IDA money, rather than a measurement of anything observable. ⚠ ⚠ No rank is published. A POSITION is derived here (2026-09-10) by ordering the rating. ⚠ THE FIELD IS ONE GROUP, NOT THE WORLD: only IDA-eligible borrowers are rated (78 in 2025), so a position places a country among low-income borrowers, and a missing country is simply not one of them. ⚠ The 2008 edition arrives rounded to one decimal where every other edition carries six or more, so that year alone ties ten deep — a source-precision problem rather than an ordering one.
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment 2019 — World Bank Group
Cite as: World Bank. Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (IDA Resource Allocation Index). Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
The World Bank's own rating of a borrowing country's policies and institutions, published via its indicator API (IQ.CPA.IRAI.XQ) as the IDA Resource Allocation Index. ⚠ It covers IDA-ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES ONLY — roughly 75 low-income borrowers — so this is not a world table with gaps, it is a table of one group. A country's absence says it does not borrow from IDA. ⚠ It is also an assessment by the lender, scored by Bank staff, rather than a measurement. No rank is published, so none is stored or derived.
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| Country | ISO Code | IDA Resource Allocation Index (1 = low to 6 = high) |
|---|---|---|
| Rwanda | RWA | 4.041667 |
| Samoa | WSM | 3.983333 |
| Bhutan | BTN | 3.875000 |
| Cabo Verde | CPV | 3.766667 |
| Moldova | MDA | 3.716667 |
| Senegal | SEN | 3.716667 |
| Kenya | KEN | 3.691667 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | 3.683333 |
| Uganda | UGA | 3.675000 |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 3.675000 |
| Dominica | DMA | 3.650000 |
| Grenada | GRD | 3.641667 |
| Kosovo | XKX | 3.633333 |
| St. Lucia | LCA | 3.633333 |
| Benin | BEN | 3.600000 |
| Ghana | GHA | 3.575000 |
| Kyrgyz Republic | KGZ | 3.541667 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | CIV | 3.500000 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 3.491667 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 3.483333 |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 3.466667 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 3.458333 |
| Tonga | TON | 3.458333 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 3.441667 |
| Mali | MLI | 3.408333 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 3.400000 |
| Honduras | HND | 3.400000 |
| Nepal | NPL | 3.400000 |
| Niger | NER | 3.391667 |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 3.366667 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 3.366667 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 3.358333 |
| Togo | TGO | 3.341667 |
| Maldives | MDV | 3.308333 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 3.308333 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 3.300000 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 3.291667 |
| Guyana | GUY | 3.266667 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 3.250000 |
| Guinea | GIN | 3.216667 |
| Djibouti | DJI | 3.200000 |
| Malawi | MWI | 3.191667 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 3.158333 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 3.150000 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 3.141667 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 3.116667 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 3.100000 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 3.091667 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 3.016667 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | STP | 3.008333 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 2.983333 |
| Gambia, The | GMB | 2.975000 |
| Kiribati | KIR | 2.975000 |
| Lao PDR | LAO | 2.966667 |
| Papua New Guinea | PNG | 2.950000 |
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | COD | 2.941667 |
| Solomon Islands | SLB | 2.933333 |
| Burundi | BDI | 2.908333 |
| Liberia | LBR | 2.908333 |
| Tuvalu | TUV | 2.875000 |
| Timor-Leste | TLS | 2.833333 |
| Chad | TCD | 2.791667 |
| Haiti | HTI | 2.766667 |
| Comoros | COM | 2.758333 |
| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | FSM | 2.725000 |
| Congo, Rep. | COG | 2.708333 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 2.700000 |
| Marshall Islands | MHL | 2.600000 |
| Central African Republic | CAF | 2.550000 |
| Guinea-Bissau | GNB | 2.450000 |
| Sudan | SDN | 2.233333 |
| Somalia, Fed. Rep. | SOM | 1.975000 |
| Yemen, Rep. | YEM | 1.958333 |
| Eritrea | ERI | 1.941667 |
| South Sudan | SSD | 1.433333 |