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Guyana vs Malawi: State Capacity Index

Guyana
0.2083
in 2015
Malawi
0.2015
in 2015
Guyana rank
104th
Malawi rank
105th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Guyana
  • Malawi
-1-0.500.51196419892015

How they compare

Guyana currently reports 0.2083 against 0.2015 in Malawi, a difference of 0.0068.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 50 shared years of data; in 1966 it was Guyana ahead.

Guyana ranks 104th and Malawi ranks 105th 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.