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Rwanda vs Vietnam: State Capacity Index

Rwanda
0.7528
in 2015
Vietnam
0.7557
in 2015
Rwanda rank
57th
Vietnam rank
56th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Rwanda
  • Vietnam
-0.500.51196119882015

How they compare

Vietnam currently reports 0.7557 against 0.7528 in Rwanda, a difference of 0.0029.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 40 shared years of data; in 1976 it was Vietnam ahead.

Rwanda ranks 57th and Vietnam ranks 56th 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.