Nepal vs Sierra Leone: State Capacity Index

Nepal

-0.0274

in 2015

Sierra Leone

-0.0702

in 2015

Nepal rank

123rd

Sierra Leone rank

126th

State Capacity Index over time

Nepal
Sierra Leone

How they compare

Nepal currently reports -0.0274 against -0.0702 in Sierra Leone, a difference of 0.0428.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Sierra Leone ahead.

Nepal ranks 123rd and Sierra Leone ranks 126th of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in Nepal
State Capacity Index in Sierra Leone
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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.