Data Governance Maturity Indicators

The rapid rise in data production and use has outstripped countries’ ability to govern it. To build a new social contract on data, countries’ data governance frameworks need to safeguard against outcomes that harm people, while simultaneously enabling the potential for data to improve lives.To guide countries in the development of these frameworks and facilitate cross-country learning, we developed a new data governance maturity model as part of the World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives. The model measures country-level data governance across legal, policy, infrastructural and institutional dimensions on a global scale.The data governance maturity indicators as well as the datasets used to construct and validate the model are available for download. The data governance maturity indicators cover 198 economies, but the datasets used to validate the model have a smaller geographic coverage. Please respect the respective licenses of the datasets. For more information on the model, measurement framework, and data please refer to the World Bank Technical Note "Measuring Data Governance Maturity of Countries: Towards a New Social Contract on Data". The analysis code can be found on the public repository: http://github.com/worldbank/data-governance-maturity.