Chad vs Liberia: State Capacity Index

Chad
-0.5349
in 2015
Liberia
-0.5134
in 2015
Chad rank
147th
Liberia rank
145th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Chad
  • Liberia
-1.5-1.2-1-0.75-0.5-0.25196019872015

How they compare

Liberia currently reports -0.5134 against -0.5349 in Chad, a difference of 0.0215.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Liberia ahead.

Chad ranks 147th and Liberia ranks 145th 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.