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Latvia - Voice and Accountability 2008

Name: Latvia Voice and Accountability 2008
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Voice and Accountability · World Bank WGI

0.78 −0.05 from 2007 Global rank: 59th

Latvia's voice and accountability was 0.78 in 2008, decreased +0.05 from 0.83 in 2007. This was the 59th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2008▾

Voice and Accountability by Country - 2008
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Norway	1.55	-0.1%
2nd	Luxembourg	1.55	0.5%
3rd	Denmark	1.54	4.1%
4th	Sweden	1.52	0.7%
5th	Switzerland	1.52	0.9%
6th	Netherlands	1.48	-2.6%
7th	New Zealand	1.48	0.0%
8th	Finland	1.46	0.2%
9th	Iceland	1.43	-0.4%
10th	Ireland	1.42	1.8%
11th	Canada	1.41	1.7%
12th	Australia	1.37	-0.1%
13th	Austria	1.36	-0.8%
14th	Germany	1.34	0.0%
15th	Andorra	1.33	1.5%
16th	Belgium	1.32	-2.6%
17th	United Kingdom	1.32	-1.1%
18th	Liechtenstein	1.32	1.5%
19th	France	1.30	3.6%
20th	Malta	1.25	0.6%
21st	St. Lucia	1.22	3.6%
22nd	Palau	1.22	2.6%
23rd	Portugal	1.20	-2.4%
24th	Marshall Islands	1.19	2.5%
25th	San Marino	1.19	2.5%
26th	Spain	1.19	5.5%
27th	Puerto Rico (US)	1.15	2.5%
28th	United States	1.14	3.1%
29th	Bahamas, The	1.12	2.1%
30th	Estonia	1.09	1.7%
31st	Micronesia, Federated States of	1.09	2.6%
32nd	Cyprus	1.08	1.6%
33rd	Nauru	1.08	2.4%
34th	St. Kitts and Nevis	1.08	-6.9%
35th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	1.07	2.5%
36th	Uruguay	1.06	1.6%
37th	Dominica	1.03	3.7%
38th	Czechia	1.03	3.8%
39th	Italy	1.03	-7.2%
40th	Slovenia	1.02	-4.3%
41st	Chile	1.01	-8.3%
42nd	Monaco	0.97	4.0%
43rd	Aruba	0.97	-0.5%
44th	American Samoa	0.97	-0.5%
45th	Bermuda	0.97	-0.5%
46th	Guam	0.97	-0.5%
47th	Costa Rica	0.97	3.4%
48th	Hungary	0.97	-7.2%
49th	Poland	0.95	8.4%
50th	Japan	0.95	-2.2%
51st	Barbados	0.95	-8.1%
52nd	Cabo Verde	0.94	8.6%
53rd	Slovak Republic	0.94	-1.3%
54th	Greece	0.93	-5.7%
55th	Mauritius	0.86	-2.5%
56th	Lithuania	0.85	-4.2%
57th	Grenada	0.82	3.2%
58th	Tuvalu	0.80	7.4%
59th	Latvia	0.78	-5.8%
60th	Kiribati	0.75	16.5%
61st	Cayman Islands	0.75	0.2%
62nd	Virgin Islands (US)	0.75	0.2%
63rd	Israel	0.72	-2.3%
64th	Korea	0.66	-6.1%
65th	Belize	0.65	22.9%
66th	Suriname	0.61	8.9%
67th	Panama	0.60	-3.3%
68th	Jamaica	0.58	-9.0%
69th	Bulgaria	0.58	-16.3%
70th	Samoa	0.58	-5.3%
71st	South Africa	0.58	-0.5%
72nd	Antigua and Barbuda	0.57	5.6%
73rd	Brazil	0.57	5.9%
74th	Trinidad and Tobago	0.53	-2.2%
75th	Romania	0.51	3.0%
76th	Botswana	0.51	1.1%
77th	Vanuatu	0.48	21.9%
78th	Croatia	0.47	-9.7%
79th	India	0.46	1.8%
80th	Namibia	0.45	0.3%
81st	Hong Kong SAR, China	0.45	-6.0%
82nd	Ghana	0.43	-13.2%
83rd	Argentina	0.36	-20.0%
84th	Benin	0.34	-6.4%
85th	Serbia	0.28	-7.7%
86th	Mongolia	0.27	-14.5%
87th	Montenegro	0.24	-8.9%
88th	Timor-Leste	0.22	46.2%
89th	Mali	0.20	-10.2%
90th	North Macedonia	0.20	-29.3%
91st	São Tomé and Principe	0.18	-3.3%
92nd	Albania	0.17	54.8%
93rd	Dominican Republic	0.16	-16.4%
94th	Peru	0.15	40.4%
95th	Mexico	0.13	10.7%
96th	Guyana	0.11	11.1%
97th	El Salvador	0.11	18.6%
98th	Ukraine	0.09	41.4%
99th	Macao SAR, China	0.08	33.0%
100th	Solomon Islands	0.02	-67.8%
101st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.02	-88.4%
102nd	Papua New Guinea	0.01	-84.4%
103rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	0.00	-93.0%
104th	Seychelles	-0.01	-108.0%
105th	Indonesia	-0.01	43.1%
106th	Tonga	-0.03	82.3%
107th	Türkiye	-0.04	22.6%
108th	Lesotho	-0.07	-591.3%
109th	Mozambique	-0.07	11.1%
110th	Paraguay	-0.12	29.8%
111th	Philippines	-0.14	-25.5%
112th	Sierra Leone	-0.14	35.2%
113th	Zambia	-0.16	22.2%
114th	Colombia	-0.17	-0.4%
115th	Tanzania	-0.17	-16.7%
116th	Liberia	-0.18	-29.6%
117th	Guatemala	-0.20	-17.8%
118th	Senegal	-0.21	-17.5%
119th	Ecuador	-0.22	-38.0%
120th	Malawi	-0.25	5.8%
121st	Georgia	-0.26	-11.5%
122nd	Kenya	-0.28	-13.5%
123rd	Burkina Faso	-0.28	7.7%
124th	Comoros	-0.29	26.0%
125th	Honduras	-0.29	-52.8%
126th	Maldives	-0.30	67.5%
127th	Moldova	-0.31	-5.1%
128th	Kosovo	-0.31	-0.4%
129th	Madagascar	-0.33	-134.5%
130th	Singapore	-0.33	7.8%
131st	Nicaragua	-0.37	-69.3%
132nd	Lebanon	-0.42	9.7%
133rd	Niger	-0.44	-20.1%
134th	Bangladesh	-0.44	22.9%
135th	Sri Lanka	-0.46	-6.8%
136th	Nepal	-0.50	15.3%
137th	Bhutan	-0.51	42.1%
138th	Uganda	-0.51	-4.9%
139th	Thailand	-0.53	5.8%
140th	Kuwait	-0.54	0.3%
141st	Malaysia	-0.56	-7.6%
142nd	Haiti	-0.59	4.2%
143rd	Burundi	-0.69	4.0%
144th	Fiji	-0.70	-8.4%
145th	Guinea-Bissau	-0.72	-0.4%
146th	Nigeria	-0.74	3.3%
147th	Jordan	-0.74	-9.0%
148th	Morocco	-0.76	-7.2%
149th	Pakistan	-0.84	11.7%
150th	Gabon	-0.85	2.5%
151st	Armenia	-0.86	-12.9%
152nd	West Bank and Gaza	-0.86	-27.2%
153rd	Gambia, The	-0.87	2.9%
154th	Bahrain	-0.87	-1.4%
155th	Russian Federation	-0.87	5.0%
156th	United Arab Emirates	-0.91	-0.6%
157th	Mauritania	-0.94	-41.5%
158th	Cambodia	-0.97	-4.7%
159th	Algeria	-0.98	0.4%
160th	Central African Republic	-0.99	8.8%
161st	Togo	-0.99	7.4%
162nd	Brunei Darussalam	-1.02	4.1%
163rd	Qatar	-1.02	1.9%
164th	Cameroon	-1.07	-1.7%
165th	Oman	-1.07	-0.8%
166th	Kyrgyz Republic	-1.09	-13.4%
167th	Kazakhstan	-1.09	6.1%
168th	Iraq	-1.10	1.9%
169th	Angola	-1.12	5.6%
170th	Congo, Republic of	-1.16	6.4%
171st	Côte d'Ivoire	-1.17	2.9%
172nd	Afghanistan	-1.17	-10.5%
173rd	Djibouti	-1.20	0.0%
174th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	-1.21	-3.8%
175th	Yemen, Republic of	-1.22	-9.8%
176th	Rwanda	-1.31	-5.3%
177th	Eswatini	-1.32	2.4%
178th	Azerbaijan	-1.33	-7.4%
179th	Tunisia	-1.35	2.1%
180th	Tajikistan	-1.36	-4.9%
181st	Congo, Democratic Republic of	-1.39	-14.6%
182nd	Guinea	-1.43	-4.2%
183rd	Chad	-1.45	0.4%
184th	Viet Nam	-1.50	2.0%
185th	Zimbabwe	-1.55	1.4%
186th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	-1.57	-1.0%
187th	Belarus	-1.59	6.5%
188th	Sudan	-1.64	0.5%
189th	China	-1.70	1.3%
190th	Lao PDR	-1.71	0.5%
191st	Syrian Arab Republic	-1.72	3.2%
192nd	Saudi Arabia	-1.73	-1.5%
193rd	Cuba	-1.80	2.9%
194th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	-1.89	-2.4%
195th	Equatorial Guinea	-1.89	-0.3%
196th	Libya	-1.94	0.5%
197th	Uzbekistan	-2.10	0.8%
198th	Turkmenistan	-2.11	2.2%
199th	Eritrea	-2.16	-2.1%
200th	Myanmar	-2.21	0.2%
201st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	-2.23	0.5%

FAQ

What was Latvia's voice and accountability in 2008?▾

Latvia's voice and accountability in 2008 was 0.78. This ranked 59th globally.

How did Latvia's voice and accountability change in 2008?▾

Latvia's voice and accountability decreased by 5.8% in 2008 compared to 2007.

Which country had the highest voice and accountability in 2008?▾

Norway had the highest voice and accountability in 2008 at 1.55.

What is the voice and accountability of Latvia in 2008?▾

The voice and accountability of Latvia in 2008 was 0.78. This ranked 59th globally.

How does 2008 compare to 2007 for Latvia's voice and accountability?▾

Latvia's voice and accountability went from 0.83 in 2007 to 0.78 in 2008, a 5.8% decrease.

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