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Ethiopia vs Lesotho: State Capacity Index

Ethiopia
0.1021
in 2015
Lesotho
0.0805
in 2015
Ethiopia rank
114th
Lesotho rank
116th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Ethiopia
  • Lesotho
-1.5-1-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

Ethiopia currently reports 0.1021 against 0.0805 in Lesotho, a difference of 0.0216.

That makes Ethiopia's figure about 1.3 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1966 it was Lesotho ahead.

Ethiopia ranks 114th and Lesotho ranks 116th 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.