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Gambia vs Mauritania: State Capacity Index

Gambia
-0.1567
in 2015
Mauritania
-0.1642
in 2015
Gambia rank
133rd
Mauritania rank
134th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Gambia
  • Mauritania
-1-0.75-0.5-0.250196019872015

How they compare

Gambia currently reports -0.1567 against -0.1642 in Mauritania, a difference of 0.0075.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Mauritania ahead.

Gambia ranks 133rd and Mauritania ranks 134th 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.