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Eritrea vs Yemen: State Capacity Index

Eritrea
-1.23
in 2015
Yemen
-1.44
in 2015
Eritrea rank
160th
Yemen rank
163rd

State Capacity Index over time

  • Eritrea
  • Yemen
-1.5-1-0.500.5199020022015

How they compare

Eritrea currently reports -1.23 against -1.44 in Yemen, a difference of 0.208.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 23 shared years of data; in 1993 it was Eritrea ahead.

Eritrea ranks 160th and Yemen ranks 163rd 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.