The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project
reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 213 economies over the period 1996–2010, for six dimensions of governance:

	Voice and Accountability
	Political Stability and Absence of Violence
	Government Effectiveness
	Regulatory Quality
	Rule of Law
	Control of Corruption

The aggregate indicators combine the views of a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries. The individual data sources underlying the aggregate indicators are drawn from a diverse variety of survey institutes, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations.

The six aggregate indicators and the underlying data sources can be viewed interactively on the "Access Governance Indicators" page. A working paper describing the WGI methodology is available here. Full documentation of the latest WGI update is available on the Documentation page. To download the full dataset in Excel format, click here.

Financial support from the Knowledge for Change Program of the World Bank is gratefully acknowledged. The WGI do not reflect the official views of Brookings Institution, the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. The WGI are not used by the World Bank Group to allocate resources.