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Gambia vs Suriname: State Capacity Index

Gambia
-0.1567
in 2015
Suriname
-0.0876
in 2015
Gambia rank
133rd
Suriname rank
131st

State Capacity Index over time

  • Gambia
  • Suriname
-1-0.500.5196519902015

How they compare

Suriname currently reports -0.0876 against -0.1567 in Gambia, a difference of 0.0691.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 41 shared years of data; in 1975 it was Suriname ahead.

Gambia ranks 133rd and Suriname ranks 131st 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.