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Botswana vs Tunisia: State Capacity Index

Botswana
0.6213
in 2015
Tunisia
0.6241
in 2015
Botswana rank
72nd
Tunisia rank
71st

State Capacity Index over time

  • Botswana
  • Tunisia
-0.500.51196019872015

How they compare

Tunisia currently reports 0.6241 against 0.6213 in Botswana, a difference of 0.0028.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1966 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 72nd and Tunisia ranks 71st 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.