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Sierra Leone vs Tajikistan: State Capacity Index

Sierra Leone
-0.0702
in 2015
Tajikistan
-0.0292
in 2015
Sierra Leone rank
126th
Tajikistan rank
124th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Sierra Leone
  • Tajikistan
-1.5-1-0.50196119882015

How they compare

Tajikistan currently reports -0.0292 against -0.0702 in Sierra Leone, a difference of 0.041.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 25 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Tajikistan ahead.

Sierra Leone ranks 126th and Tajikistan ranks 124th 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.