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Gambia vs Mali: State Capacity Index

Gambia
-0.1567
in 2015
Mali
-0.165
in 2015
Gambia rank
133rd
Mali rank
135th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Gambia
  • Mali
-1-0.8-0.6-0.4-0.2-0196019872015

How they compare

Gambia currently reports -0.1567 against -0.165 in Mali, a difference of 0.0083.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Gambia ahead.

Gambia ranks 133rd 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.