Guinea-Bissau vs Sudan: State Capacity Index

Guinea-Bissau

-0.8603

in 2015

Sudan

-0.8835

in 2015

Guinea-Bissau rank

153rd

Sudan rank

154th

State Capacity Index over time

Guinea-Bissau
Sudan

How they compare

Guinea-Bissau currently reports -0.8603 against -0.8835 in Sudan, a difference of 0.0232.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1974 it was Guinea-Bissau ahead.

Guinea-Bissau ranks 153rd and Sudan ranks 154th of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in Guinea-Bissau
State Capacity Index in Sudan
Full country ranking

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.