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Djibouti vs Nigeria: State Capacity Index

Djibouti
-0.4288
in 2015
Nigeria
-0.39
in 2015
Djibouti rank
143rd
Nigeria rank
141st

State Capacity Index over time

  • Djibouti
  • Nigeria
-1.5-1-0.50196019872015

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports -0.39 against -0.4288 in Djibouti, a difference of 0.0388.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 39 shared years of data; in 1977 it was Nigeria ahead.

Djibouti ranks 143rd and Nigeria ranks 141st 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.