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Democratic Republic of Congo vs Sudan: State Capacity Index

Democratic Republic of Congo
-0.9912
in 2015
Sudan
-0.8835
in 2015
Democratic Republic of Congo rank
156th
Sudan rank
154th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Sudan
-1.5-1.2-1-0.75-0.5196019872015

How they compare

Sudan currently reports -0.8835 against -0.9912 in Democratic Republic of Congo, a difference of 0.1077.

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

Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 156th and Sudan ranks 154th 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.