The quality of the national government in Argentina remains above the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) average, although it deteriorated over the last decade. The Quality of the Government Index, ranging from 0 to 1 and measured by proxies of corruption, law and order, and bureaucracy quality, decreased from 0.56 to around 0.47 between 2005 and 2015. This decrease is also reflected in the share of citizens expressing confidence in the national government, which fell from 52% to 42% of the population between 2006 and 2016. Nonetheless, across these two indicators, Argentina still ranks above the average for the LAC region.