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Botswana vs Russia: State Capacity Index

Botswana
0.6213
in 2015
Russia
0.6463
in 2015
Botswana rank
72nd
Russia rank
69th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Botswana
  • Russia
-0.2500.250.50.751196619902015

How they compare

Russia currently reports 0.6463 against 0.6213 in Botswana, a difference of 0.025.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 24 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 72nd and Russia ranks 69th 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.