Cote d'Ivoire vs Kenya: State Capacity Index

Cote d'Ivoire

-0.0714

in 2015

Kenya

-0.0789

in 2015

Cote d'Ivoire rank

127th

Kenya rank

128th

State Capacity Index over time

Cote d'Ivoire
Kenya

How they compare

Cote d'Ivoire currently reports -0.0714 against -0.0789 in Kenya, a difference of 0.0075.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1963 it was Cote d'Ivoire ahead.

Cote d'Ivoire ranks 127th and Kenya ranks 128th of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in Cote d'Ivoire
State Capacity Index in Kenya
Full country ranking

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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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.