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Belarus vs South Africa: State Capacity Index

Belarus
0.9087
in 2015
South Africa
0.8833
in 2015
Belarus rank
46th
South Africa rank
49th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Belarus
  • South Africa
-0.500.511.5196019872015

How they compare

Belarus currently reports 0.9087 against 0.8833 in South Africa, a difference of 0.0254.

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

Belarus ranks 46th and South Africa ranks 49th 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.