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Niger vs Pakistan: State Capacity Index

Niger
0.0481
in 2015
Pakistan
0.0124
in 2015
Niger rank
118th
Pakistan rank
120th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Niger
  • Pakistan
-0.75-0.5-0.2500.25196019872015

How they compare

Niger currently reports 0.0481 against 0.0124 in Pakistan, a difference of 0.0358.

That makes Niger's figure about 3.9 times Pakistan's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Pakistan ahead.

Niger ranks 118th and Pakistan ranks 120th 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.