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Ghana vs Guyana: State Capacity Index

Ghana
0.255
in 2015
Guyana
0.2083
in 2015
Ghana rank
102nd
Guyana rank
104th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Ghana
  • Guyana
-1-0.500.51196019872015

How they compare

Ghana currently reports 0.255 against 0.2083 in Guyana, a difference of 0.0467.

That makes Ghana's figure about 1.2 times Guyana's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1966 it was Guyana ahead.

Ghana ranks 102nd and Guyana ranks 104th 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.