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Egypt vs Senegal: State Capacity Index

Egypt
0.2569
in 2015
Senegal
0.2706
in 2015
Egypt rank
101st
Senegal rank
99th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Egypt
  • Senegal
-0.6-0.4-0.2-00.2196019872015

How they compare

Senegal currently reports 0.2706 against 0.2569 in Egypt, a difference of 0.0137.

That makes Senegal's figure about 1.1 times Egypt's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Egypt ahead.

Egypt ranks 101st and Senegal ranks 99th 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.