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Algeria vs Benin: State Capacity Index

Algeria
0.1428
in 2015
Benin
0.122
in 2015
Algeria rank
110th
Benin rank
113th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Algeria
  • Benin
-1-0.50196019872015

How they compare

Algeria currently reports 0.1428 against 0.122 in Benin, a difference of 0.0208.

That makes Algeria's figure about 1.2 times Benin's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1962 it was Algeria ahead.

Algeria ranks 110th and Benin ranks 113th 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.