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Botswana vs Colombia: State Capacity Index

Botswana
0.6213
in 2015
Colombia
0.6181
in 2015
Botswana rank
72nd
Colombia rank
73rd

State Capacity Index over time

  • Botswana
  • Colombia
-0.2500.250.50.751196019872015

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 0.6213 against 0.6181 in Colombia, a difference of 0.0032.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1966 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 72nd and Colombia ranks 73rd 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
Last refreshed

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.