Statizoid

Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe: State Capacity Index

Sri Lanka
0.3371
in 2015
Zimbabwe
0.2965
in 2015
Sri Lanka rank
94th
Zimbabwe rank
96th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Sri Lanka
  • Zimbabwe
-1-0.500.51196019872015

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 0.3371 against 0.2965 in Zimbabwe, a difference of 0.0406.

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

The two have swapped places 2 times across 46 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Sri Lanka ahead.

Sri Lanka ranks 94th and Zimbabwe ranks 96th 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.