Peru vs Rwanda: State Capacity Index

Peru
0.7907
in 2015
Rwanda
0.7528
in 2015
Peru rank
54th
Rwanda rank
57th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Peru
  • Rwanda
-0.500.51196019872015

How they compare

Peru currently reports 0.7907 against 0.7528 in Rwanda, a difference of 0.0379.

That makes Peru's figure about 1.1 times Rwanda's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Peru ahead.

Peru ranks 54th and Rwanda ranks 57th 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.