Statizoid

Mauritania vs Togo: State Capacity Index

Mauritania
-0.1642
in 2015
Togo
-0.1935
in 2015
Mauritania rank
134th
Togo rank
136th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Mauritania
  • Togo
-0.8-0.6-0.4-0.2-00.2196019872015

How they compare

Mauritania currently reports -0.1642 against -0.1935 in Togo, a difference of 0.0293.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Mauritania ahead.

Mauritania ranks 134th and Togo ranks 136th 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.