Statizoid

Mexico vs Namibia: State Capacity Index

Mexico
0.6593
in 2015
Namibia
0.6551
in 2015
Mexico rank
65th
Namibia rank
66th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Mexico
  • Namibia
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How they compare

Mexico currently reports 0.6593 against 0.6551 in Namibia, a difference of 0.0042.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 26 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Mexico ahead.

Mexico ranks 65th and Namibia ranks 66th 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.