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Kenya vs Sierra Leone: State Capacity Index

Kenya
-0.0789
in 2015
Sierra Leone
-0.0702
in 2015
Kenya rank
128th
Sierra Leone rank
126th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Kenya
  • Sierra Leone
-1.5-1-0.50196119882015

How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports -0.0702 against -0.0789 in Kenya, a difference of 0.0087.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1963 it was Sierra Leone ahead.

Kenya ranks 128th and Sierra Leone ranks 126th 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.