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Gabon vs Mali: State Capacity Index

Gabon
-0.2089
in 2015
Mali
-0.165
in 2015
Gabon rank
137th
Mali rank
135th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Gabon
  • Mali
-1-0.75-0.5-0.2500.25196019872015

How they compare

Mali currently reports -0.165 against -0.2089 in Gabon, a difference of 0.0439.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Mali ahead.

Gabon ranks 137th and Mali ranks 135th 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.