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Ghana vs Malawi: State Capacity Index

Ghana
0.255
in 2015
Malawi
0.2015
in 2015
Ghana rank
102nd
Malawi rank
105th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Ghana
  • Malawi
-1-0.75-0.5-0.2500.25196019872015

How they compare

Ghana currently reports 0.255 against 0.2015 in Malawi, a difference of 0.0535.

That makes Ghana's figure about 1.3 times Malawi's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1964 it was Ghana ahead.

Ghana ranks 102nd and Malawi ranks 105th 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.