World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)

Name: World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)
Creator: World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)Governance & Institutions

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

7,752

Temporal coverage

1996-12-31 – 2024-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Required attribution: The World Bank: Worldwide Governance Indicators
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/worldwide-governance-indicators
Provider terms: https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/legal/terms-of-use-for-datasets

How to cite

World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI). Retrieved from https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/worldwide-governance-indicators. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download wgi series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/wgi
Update cadence: annual
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single parquet: data/clean_full/wgi/wgi.parquet (~1.3 MB; schema series_key/obs_date/value). Side-cars _wgi_log.txt, _wgi_err.txt.

Full description

World Bank World Governance Indicators (WGI) ingest. Source: https://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/ License: CC BY 4.0 Coverage: ~214 economies, 1996-2023, 6 governance dimensions + sub-indicators Dimensions: VA: Voice and Accountability PV: Political Stability and Absence of Violence GE: Government Effectiveness RQ: Regulatory Quality RL: Rule of Law CC: Control of Corruption Downloads the official WGI Excel file (AllCountries) from the World Bank, which includes Estimate, StdErr, NumSrc, Rank, Lower, Upper for each indicator. series_key: WGI:{indicator}:{iso3} e.g. WGI:GE.EST:USA Output: data/clean_full/wgi/wgi.parquet Run: python jobs/ingest_wgi.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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