Congo vs Liberia: State Capacity Index

Congo
-0.4654
in 2015
Liberia
-0.5134
in 2015
Congo rank
144th
Liberia rank
145th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Congo
  • Liberia
-1.5-1-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

Congo currently reports -0.4654 against -0.5134 in Liberia, a difference of 0.048.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Congo ahead.

Congo ranks 144th 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.