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Lesotho vs East Timor: State Capacity Index

Lesotho
0.0805
in 2015
East Timor
0.0953
in 2015
Lesotho rank
116th
East Timor rank
115th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Lesotho
  • East Timor
-1.5-1-0.500.5196619902015

How they compare

East Timor currently reports 0.0953 against 0.0805 in Lesotho, a difference of 0.0148.

That makes East Timor's figure about 1.2 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 14 shared years of data; in 2002 it was Lesotho ahead.

Lesotho ranks 116th and East Timor ranks 115th 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.