Benin vs East Timor: State Capacity Index

Benin
0.122
in 2015
East Timor
0.0953
in 2015
Benin rank
113th
East Timor rank
115th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Benin
  • East Timor
-1-0.50196019872015

How they compare

Benin currently reports 0.122 against 0.0953 in East Timor, a difference of 0.0267.

That makes Benin's figure about 1.3 times East Timor's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 14 shared years of data; in 2002 it was East Timor ahead.

Benin ranks 113th and East Timor ranks 115th 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.