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Jamaica vs Namibia: State Capacity Index

Jamaica
0.649
in 2015
Namibia
0.6551
in 2015
Jamaica rank
67th
Namibia rank
66th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Jamaica
  • Namibia
-0.500.51196019872015

How they compare

Namibia currently reports 0.6551 against 0.649 in Jamaica, a difference of 0.0061.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 26 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Namibia ahead.

Jamaica ranks 67th and Namibia ranks 66th 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.