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Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score

Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score, 2018 · 186 countries · 6 measures

This score, from the World Bank's Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance, rates how openly a government makes the rules businesses must follow: whether it publishes plans for new regulation, consults the public on drafts, reports back on what it heard, assesses the likely impact, and makes the laws in force easy to find. Each of the five practices scores up to one point, for a total out of five.

This site holds one year, Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score, 2018, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest: Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score, 2018
Held: 1 year · 186 rows
Licence: CC BY 4.0

1year held
2018years
186rows across every year
186countries in the newest
6measures per country
CC BY 4.0licence

01One year

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

Every year of Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score, 2018	186	—	October 3, 2026	CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: regulatory-governance-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

028 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.

Regulatory governance score (0–5)is built fromForward regulatory plans (0–1)Consultation on proposed regulations (0–1)Reporting back on consultations (0–1)Regulatory impact assessment (0–1)Access to the laws in force (0–1)

Every column in the newest file of Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2018	Distinct
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	186
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	186
Regulatory governance score (0–5)`regulatory_governance`Headline	The headline figure: Regulatory governance score (0–5, where 5 is the most transparent rule-making).	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.013 share it5.016 share itmiddle 2.3	21
Forward regulatory plans (0–1)`forward_planning`Part of the headline	Whether the government publishes a plan of the regulations it intends to make, scored from 0 to 1.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.0101 share it1.053 share itmiddle 0.0	4
Consultation on proposed regulations (0–1)`consultation`Part of the headline	Whether proposed regulations are published and open to public comment before they are adopted, scored from 0 to 1.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.050 share it1.057 share itmiddle 0.5	5
Reporting back on consultations (0–1)`reporting_back`Part of the headline	Whether the government reports publicly on what it heard in that consultation, scored from 0 to 1.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.0100 share it1.039 share itmiddle 0.0	5
Regulatory impact assessment (0–1)`impact_assessment`Part of the headline	Whether the likely effects of a proposed regulation are assessed before it is adopted, scored from 0 to 1.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.099 share it1.047 share itmiddle 0.0	4
Access to the laws in force (0–1)`law_accessibility`Part of the headline	Whether the laws and regulations in force are published where people can find them, scored from 0 to 1.	Number · up to 1 decimal	0.025 share it1.0140 share itmiddle 1.0	3

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.

03186 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 Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score, by continent.
	2018
Africa	52
Americas	34
Asia	47
Europe	41
Oceania	12
All	186

One year, covering 186 countries.

Not in this dataset · 39 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.

The site’s method

1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
rulemaking.worldbank.org
2 · Their file
Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score 2018
WB_GIRG_WIDEF.csv
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
1 file, one per year
It downloads as a CSV: regulatory-governance-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/regulatory-governance

Precision

The headline is stored to 2 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.

From World Bank Data360 (Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance). The five parts beside the score are the Bank's own and add up to it.

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 October 3, 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, Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score, Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score, 2018 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/regulatory-governance

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

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07Questions