Malawi vs Mozambique: State Capacity Index

Malawi
0.2015
in 2015
Mozambique
0.1894
in 2015
Malawi rank
105th
Mozambique rank
107th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Malawi
  • Mozambique
-1-0.500.5196419892015

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 0.2015 against 0.1894 in Mozambique, a difference of 0.0121.

That makes Malawi's figure about 1.1 times Mozambique's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 41 shared years of data; in 1975 it was Malawi ahead.

Malawi ranks 105th and Mozambique ranks 107th 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.