Sri Lanka vs Zambia: State Capacity Index

Sri Lanka

0.3371

in 2015

Zambia

0.3532

in 2015

Sri Lanka rank

94th

Zambia rank

92nd

State Capacity Index over time

Sri Lanka
Zambia

How they compare

Zambia currently reports 0.3532 against 0.3371 in Sri Lanka, a difference of 0.0161.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 52 shared years of data; in 1964 it was Sri Lanka ahead.

Sri Lanka ranks 94th and Zambia ranks 92nd of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in Sri Lanka
State Capacity Index in Zambia
Full country ranking

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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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.