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Bangladesh vs Nepal: State Capacity Index

Bangladesh
0.0123
in 2015
Nepal
-0.0274
in 2015
Bangladesh rank
121st
Nepal rank
123rd

State Capacity Index over time

  • Bangladesh
  • Nepal
-1-0.75-0.5-0.250196019872015

How they compare

Bangladesh currently reports 0.0123 against -0.0274 in Nepal, a difference of 0.0397.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 44 shared years of data; in 1972 it was Bangladesh ahead.

Bangladesh ranks 121st and Nepal ranks 123rd 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.