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Eswatini vs Kenya: State Capacity Index

Eswatini
-0.079
in 2015
Kenya
-0.0789
in 2015
Eswatini rank
129th
Kenya rank
128th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Eswatini
  • Kenya
-0.8-0.6-0.4-0.2-00.2196319892015

How they compare

Kenya currently reports -0.0789 against -0.079 in Eswatini, a difference of 0.0001.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 48 shared years of data; in 1968 it was Kenya ahead.

Eswatini ranks 129th and Kenya ranks 128th 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.