The WGI is based on 35 different data sources from 33 organizations around the world, aggregating the data from hundreds of disaggregated questions, to cover 212 countries around the world.
The data reflect the views on governance of public sector, private sector and NGO experts, as well as thousands of citizen and firm survey respondents worldwide.
Six basic dimensions of governance in the WGI are: Voice and Accountability which means the extent to which a country's citizens are able to participate in selecting their government, as well as freedom of expression, association, and the press; Political Stability and Absence of Violence: the likelihood that the government will be destabilized by unconstitutional or violent means, including terrorism; Government Effectiveness: the quality of public services, the capacity of the civil service and its independence from political pressures; the quality of policy formulation; Regulatory Quality: the ability of the government to provide sound policies and regulations that enable and promote private sector development; Rule of Law: the extent to which agents have confidence in and abide by the rules of society, including the quality of property rights, the police, and the courts, as well as the risk of crime; and Control of Corruption: the extent to which public power is exercised for private gain, including both petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as elite "capture" of the state.
Croatia has scored between 75 and 50 percent measured by the percentage of the rank, with its best score of 70 percent in Government Effectiveness and the lowest score of 55 percent in the Rule of Law. In addition, Croatia's performance was good in Political Stability and Absence of Violence (67 percent), Regulatory Quality (also 67 percent), and Control of Corruption (62 percent) and Voice and Accountability (60 percent).
According to these figures, Croatia has seen progress in the quality of governance.
When it comes to the rankings of 18 countries in eastern Europe and the Baltic, Croatia is in the middle of the list.