When it comes to good government, Rwanda is the highest ranked low-income country in 53rd place overall, scoring highest in the area of leadership and foresight. The 2021 Chandler good government index was released on April 26, providing insight into how 104 countries compare on governance with rankings based on seven indicators: leadership, laws, institutions, financial stewardship, marketplace, global influence, and helping people rise.
But Rwanda is only one of nine low-income countries to be included. It is an index that is dominated by high-income countries, led by Finland.
“We have worked hard to ensure that the index has the broadest and most comprehensive country coverage of any governance index,” Wu Wei Neng, executive director at the Chandler Institute of Governance, told Devex. “It currently accounts for nearly 90% of the world’s population. However, we could not rank every country in the world due to the limitations of data quality available.”