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Ghana vs Senegal: State Capacity Index

Ghana
0.255
in 2015
Senegal
0.2706
in 2015
Ghana rank
102nd
Senegal rank
99th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Ghana
  • Senegal
-1-0.75-0.5-0.2500.25196019872015

How they compare

Senegal currently reports 0.2706 against 0.255 in Ghana, a difference of 0.0156.

That makes Senegal's figure about 1.1 times Ghana's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Ghana ahead.

Ghana ranks 102nd and Senegal ranks 99th 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.