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Panama vs Tanzania: State Capacity Index

Panama
0.413
in 2015
Tanzania
0.3776
in 2015
Panama rank
88th
Tanzania rank
90th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Panama
  • Tanzania
-1-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

Panama currently reports 0.413 against 0.3776 in Tanzania, a difference of 0.0354.

That makes Panama's figure about 1.1 times Tanzania's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Tanzania ahead.

Panama ranks 88th and Tanzania ranks 90th 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.