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Guatemala vs Nicaragua: State Capacity Index

Guatemala
0.1455
in 2015
Nicaragua
0.1352
in 2015
Guatemala rank
109th
Nicaragua rank
111th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Guatemala
  • Nicaragua
-1.5-1-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

Guatemala currently reports 0.1455 against 0.1352 in Nicaragua, a difference of 0.0103.

That makes Guatemala's figure about 1.1 times Nicaragua's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Guatemala ahead.

Guatemala ranks 109th and Nicaragua ranks 111th 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.