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Burundi vs Iraq: State Capacity Index

Burundi
-0.6417
in 2015
Iraq
-0.6327
in 2015
Burundi rank
150th
Iraq rank
148th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Burundi
  • Iraq
-1.5-1-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

Iraq currently reports -0.6327 against -0.6417 in Burundi, a difference of 0.009.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1962 it was Iraq ahead.

Burundi ranks 150th and Iraq ranks 148th 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.