Statizoid

Sri Lanka vs Uganda: State Capacity Index

Sri Lanka
0.3371
in 2015
Uganda
0.3691
in 2015
Sri Lanka rank
94th
Uganda rank
91st

State Capacity Index over time

  • Sri Lanka
  • Uganda
-1.5-1-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

Uganda currently reports 0.3691 against 0.3371 in Sri Lanka, a difference of 0.032.

That makes Uganda's figure about 1.1 times Sri Lanka's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1962 it was Sri Lanka ahead.

Sri Lanka ranks 94th and Uganda ranks 91st 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.