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Democratic Republic of Congo vs Guinea-Bissau: State Capacity Index

Democratic Republic of Congo
-0.9912
in 2015
Guinea-Bissau
-0.8603
in 2015
Democratic Republic of Congo rank
156th
Guinea-Bissau rank
153rd

State Capacity Index over time

  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Guinea-Bissau
-1.6-1.4-1.2-1-0.8-0.6196019872015

How they compare

Guinea-Bissau currently reports -0.8603 against -0.9912 in Democratic Republic of Congo, a difference of 0.1309.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1974 it was Guinea-Bissau ahead.

Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 156th and Guinea-Bissau ranks 153rd 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.