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Azerbaijan vs Lesotho: State Capacity Index

Azerbaijan
0.0577
in 2015
Lesotho
0.0805
in 2015
Azerbaijan rank
117th
Lesotho rank
116th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Azerbaijan
  • Lesotho
-1.5-1-0.500.5196619902015

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 0.0805 against 0.0577 in Azerbaijan, a difference of 0.0229.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.4 times Azerbaijan's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 25 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Azerbaijan ahead.

Azerbaijan ranks 117th and Lesotho ranks 116th 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.