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Argentina vs Costa Rica: State Capacity Index

Argentina
0.8095
in 2015
Costa Rica
0.8696
in 2015
Argentina rank
53rd
Costa Rica rank
50th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Argentina
  • Costa Rica
00.51196019872015

How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 0.8696 against 0.8095 in Argentina, a difference of 0.0601.

That makes Costa Rica's figure about 1.1 times Argentina's.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Argentina ranks 53rd and Costa Rica ranks 50th 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.