Guinea-Bissau vs Solomon Islands: State Capacity Index

Guinea-Bissau

-0.8603

in 2015

Solomon Islands

-0.7057

in 2015

Guinea-Bissau rank

153rd

Solomon Islands rank

151st

State Capacity Index over time

Guinea-Bissau
Solomon Islands

How they compare

Solomon Islands currently reports -0.7057 against -0.8603 in Guinea-Bissau, a difference of 0.1546.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 38 shared years of data; in 1978 it was Guinea-Bissau ahead.

Guinea-Bissau ranks 153rd and Solomon Islands ranks 151st 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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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.