Statizoid

Iraq vs Liberia: State Capacity Index

Iraq
-0.6327
in 2015
Liberia
-0.5134
in 2015
Iraq rank
148th
Liberia rank
145th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Iraq
  • Liberia
-1.5-1-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

Liberia currently reports -0.5134 against -0.6327 in Iraq, a difference of 0.1193.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Iraq ahead.

Iraq ranks 148th and Liberia ranks 145th 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.