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Access To Public Services By Urban-rural Location

This sub-indicator assesses the extent to which access to basic public services, such as order and security, primary education, clean water, and healthcare, are distributed equally across urban and rural areas. Urban areas are defined as an area that meets the following conditions: population density exceeds a threshold of 150 persons per square kilometre, there is access to a sizeable settlement of 50,000 people or more within some reasonable travel time, for example 60 minutes by road. This sub-indicator assesses the extent to which er the geographic location is an important cleavage in society for the distribution of public services.

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Top 10 countries

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Bottom 10 countries

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Most improved countries

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Most deteriorated countries

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    • Public Perception of Overall Governance

    About Citizens’ Voices

    As citizens are the recipients of public leadership and governance, the assessment of governance performance of the IIAG is accompanied by the Citizens’ Voices dataset in an effort to contextualise the official and expert assessment data in the IIAG with the reality on the ground as perceived by citizens.

    MIF has been working with and supporting Afrobarometer, the leading pan-African research institution conducting public opinion surveys on the continent, and the 2022 IIAG framework gives these more prominence. Formerly scattered at various levels in the IIAG, citizens’ assessments of various governance components are now highlighted in a Citizens’ Voices section, providing a comprehensive 'reality check' to complement the IIAG results.

    This section mirrors the IIAG categories and provides public perception data on the closest proxies to the IIAG measures. However, whilst these measures are available to compare across the IIAG, it is important to note that their scores do not form part of the calculation for Overall Governance.

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