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Eritrea vs South Sudan: State Capacity Index

Eritrea
-1.23
in 2015
South Sudan
-1.37
in 2015
Eritrea rank
160th
South Sudan rank
162nd

State Capacity Index over time

  • Eritrea
  • South Sudan
-1.5-1-0.500.5199320042015

How they compare

Eritrea currently reports -1.23 against -1.37 in South Sudan, a difference of 0.134.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 5 shared years of data; in 2011 it was South Sudan ahead.

Eritrea ranks 160th and South Sudan ranks 162nd 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.