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Madagascar vs Solomon Islands: State Capacity Index

Madagascar
-0.6381
in 2015
Solomon Islands
-0.7057
in 2015
Madagascar rank
149th
Solomon Islands rank
151st

State Capacity Index over time

  • Madagascar
  • Solomon Islands
-1.2-1-0.75-0.5-0.25196019872015

How they compare

Madagascar currently reports -0.6381 against -0.7057 in Solomon Islands, a difference of 0.0676.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 38 shared years of data; in 1978 it was Madagascar ahead.

Madagascar ranks 149th and Solomon Islands ranks 151st 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.