Albania vs Iran: State Capacity Index

Albania

0.5549

in 2015

Iran

0.5043

in 2015

Albania rank

80th

Iran rank

81st

State Capacity Index over time

Albania
Iran

How they compare

Albania currently reports 0.5549 against 0.5043 in Iran, a difference of 0.0506.

That makes Albania's figure about 1.1 times Iran's.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Albania ahead.

Albania ranks 80th and Iran ranks 81st of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in Albania
State Capacity Index in Iran
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.