Governance & risk
Worldwide Governance Indicators
Separate estimates, not an averaged governance score. Negative and positive values extend from the same zero reference.
Government effectiveness
SEA-11 · WGI estimate · higher = stronger
| Country | Score |
|---|---|
| Singapore | 2.2796 |
| Malaysia | 0.9148 |
| Brunei | 0.8352 |
| Thailand | 0.2536 |
| Indonesia | 0.1798 |
| Philippines | 0.1445 |
| Vietnam | -0.0923 |
| Cambodia | -0.2935 |
| Laos | -0.5819 |
| Timor-Leste | -0.8986 |
| Myanmar | -1.5583 |
Rule of law
SEA-11 · WGI estimate · higher = stronger
| Country | Score |
|---|---|
| Singapore | 1.4312 |
| Brunei | 0.5876 |
| Malaysia | 0.3451 |
| Indonesia | -0.2066 |
| Thailand | -0.2155 |
| Vietnam | -0.3139 |
| Philippines | -0.5740 |
| Timor-Leste | -0.6257 |
| Laos | -0.7424 |
| Cambodia | -1.0563 |
| Myanmar | -1.8116 |
Control of corruption
SEA-11 · WGI estimate · higher = stronger
| Country | Score |
|---|---|
| Singapore | 1.9681 |
| Brunei | 1.1862 |
| Malaysia | 0.4984 |
| Vietnam | -0.2517 |
| Timor-Leste | -0.3775 |
| Thailand | -0.5273 |
| Indonesia | -0.5446 |
| Philippines | -0.5766 |
| Laos | -0.9799 |
| Cambodia | -1.2329 |
| Myanmar | -1.2527 |
Press freedom
Higher means freer. RSF does not track WGI and is not an administrative-quality measure.
Press freedom
SEA-11 · Score · higher = freer
| Country | Score |
|---|---|
| Timor-Leste | 75.29 |
| Thailand | 53.97 |
| Malaysia | 52.73 |
| Brunei | 52.58 |
| Philippines | 46.79 |
| Singapore | 44.57 |
| Indonesia | 43.02 |
| Cambodia | 33.28 |
| Laos | 32.54 |
| Myanmar | 26.38 |
| Vietnam | 21.15 |
INFORM Risk
Higher means riskier. This is not a governance score or a growth forecast. The peer toggle excludes Singapore and Myanmar; both remain in the full SEA-11 view.
INFORM Risk
SEA-11 · Index · higher = riskier
| Country | Score | Risk class |
|---|---|---|
| Myanmar | 7.0 | Very High |
| Philippines | 5.4 | High |
| Indonesia | 4.5 | Medium |
| Cambodia | 4.5 | Medium |
| Thailand | 4.3 | Medium |
| Vietnam | 4.0 | Medium |
| Timor-Leste | 3.8 | Medium |
| Laos | 3.6 | Medium |
| Malaysia | 3.3 | Medium |
| Brunei | 2.3 | Low |
| Singapore | 0.6 | Very Low |
Key findings from this pack
- Singapore leads the WGI trio; Myanmar lies at the opposite pole.
- PH trails Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia on rule of law and corruption control.
- PH INFORM risk is High; the four peers are Medium.
- Press freedom does not track WGI: Timor-Leste leads RSF in this set.
Methods & reading notes
Regional poles and peer comparisons are distinct: Singapore and Myanmar provide SEA-11 context. The Philippine peer set is Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia; Singapore is not an INFORM peer benchmark.
Keep the frameworks separate
WGI government effectiveness, rule of law and control of corruption describe distinct institutional dimensions. They are estimates, with uncertainty not supplied in this pack; the displayed order alone does not establish statistically significant differences. We do not average them into a new score.
RSF press freedom concerns civic and media conditions, not administrative capacity. INFORM is multi-hazard risk: exposure, vulnerability and lack of coping capacity. It is neither a governance score nor a growth forecast. No combined ranking is computed.
Observation years and provenance
Each panel retains its indicator year from the scoreboard and source definition from the supplied README and brief. The CSV does not contain source or as_of columns. Badges therefore identify the documented source and explicitly label as_of as the pack snapshot. This is not an upstream extraction timestamp. The download preserves original precision and country notes.
Country context and missing data
Myanmar carries conflict and data-quality caveats. Country comparisons should be read with their vintages. Blank observations are displayed as an em dash, never zero. INFORM classes are taken from the CSV notes, not assigned using invented cutoffs. Poverty and Gini are outside this scoreboard.
Original pack definitions & notes · Provenance record · Philippines peer context →
Cite this page
ASEAN in Data (2026). Governance & risk scoreboard. /topics/governance-risk