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Afghanistan vs Comoros: State Capacity Index

Afghanistan
-1.05
in 2015
Comoros
-0.9382
in 2015
Afghanistan rank
157th
Comoros rank
155th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Afghanistan
  • Comoros
-2-1.5-1-0.5196019872015

How they compare

Comoros currently reports -0.9382 against -1.05 in Afghanistan, a difference of 0.1078.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 41 shared years of data; in 1975 it was Afghanistan ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 157th and Comoros ranks 155th of 165 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
State Capacity Index
Source
Jonathan Hanson and Rachel Sigman (2021); Population based on various sources (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
166 places, 8,015 data points, 1960–2015
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Measures state capacity by combining 21 different indicators related to three key dimensions: extractive capacity, coercive capacity, and administrative capacity. Higher values indicate greater state capacity.