Statizoid

Myanmar vs Nigeria: State Capacity Index

Myanmar
-0.3026
in 2015
Nigeria
-0.39
in 2015
Myanmar rank
140th
Nigeria rank
141st

State Capacity Index over time

  • Myanmar
  • Nigeria
-1.5-1-0.50196019872015

How they compare

Myanmar currently reports -0.3026 against -0.39 in Nigeria, a difference of 0.0874.

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

Myanmar ranks 140th and Nigeria ranks 141st 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
Last refreshed

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.