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Nicaragua vs Paraguay: State Capacity Index

Nicaragua
0.1352
in 2015
Paraguay
0.1222
in 2015
Nicaragua rank
111th
Paraguay rank
112th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Nicaragua
  • Paraguay
-1.5-1-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

Nicaragua currently reports 0.1352 against 0.1222 in Paraguay, a difference of 0.013.

That makes Nicaragua's figure about 1.1 times Paraguay's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Paraguay ahead.

Nicaragua ranks 111th and Paraguay ranks 112th 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.