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Cuba vs Ecuador: State Capacity Index

Cuba
0.566
in 2015
Ecuador
0.5636
in 2015
Cuba rank
78th
Ecuador rank
79th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Cuba
  • Ecuador
-0.5-0.2500.250.50.75196019872015

How they compare

Cuba currently reports 0.566 against 0.5636 in Ecuador, a difference of 0.0024.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Cuba ahead.

Cuba ranks 78th and Ecuador ranks 79th 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.