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Haiti vs Syria: State Capacity Index

Haiti
-1.15
in 2015
Syria
-1.2
in 2015
Haiti rank
158th
Syria rank
159th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Haiti
  • Syria
-1.5-1-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

Haiti currently reports -1.15 against -1.2 in Syria, a difference of 0.05.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Syria ahead.

Haiti ranks 158th and Syria ranks 159th 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.