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Angola vs Gambia: State Capacity Index

Angola
-0.1073
in 2015
Gambia
-0.1567
in 2015
Angola rank
132nd
Gambia rank
133rd

State Capacity Index over time

  • Angola
  • Gambia
-1.5-1-0.50196519902015

How they compare

Angola currently reports -0.1073 against -0.1567 in Gambia, a difference of 0.0494.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 41 shared years of data; in 1975 it was Gambia ahead.

Angola ranks 132nd and Gambia ranks 133rd 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.