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Cape Verde vs Fiji: State Capacity Index

Cape Verde
0.486
in 2015
Fiji
0.4425
in 2015
Cape Verde rank
84th
Fiji rank
87th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Cape Verde
  • Fiji
-0.5-0.2500.250.50.75197019922015

How they compare

Cape Verde currently reports 0.486 against 0.4425 in Fiji, a difference of 0.0435.

That makes Cape Verde's figure about 1.1 times Fiji's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 41 shared years of data; in 1975 it was Fiji ahead.

Cape Verde ranks 84th and Fiji ranks 87th 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.