Guinea vs Nigeria: State Capacity Index

Guinea

-0.2401

in 2015

Nigeria

-0.39

in 2015

Guinea rank

138th

Nigeria rank

141st

State Capacity Index over time

Guinea
Nigeria

How they compare

Guinea currently reports -0.2401 against -0.39 in Nigeria, a difference of 0.1499.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Nigeria ahead.

Guinea ranks 138th and Nigeria ranks 141st of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in Guinea
State Capacity Index in Nigeria
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.