Statizoid

Ecuador vs Trinidad and Tobago: State Capacity Index

Ecuador
0.5636
in 2015
Trinidad and Tobago
0.5713
in 2015
Ecuador rank
79th
Trinidad and Tobago rank
77th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Ecuador
  • Trinidad and Tobago
-0.500.51196019872015

How they compare

Trinidad and Tobago currently reports 0.5713 against 0.5636 in Ecuador, a difference of 0.0077.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1962 it was Trinidad and Tobago ahead.

Ecuador ranks 79th and Trinidad and Tobago ranks 77th 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.