Argentina vs India: State Capacity Index

Argentina

0.8095

in 2015

India

0.767

in 2015

Argentina rank

53rd

India rank

55th

State Capacity Index over time

Argentina
India

How they compare

Argentina currently reports 0.8095 against 0.767 in India, a difference of 0.0425.

That makes Argentina's figure about 1.1 times India's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Argentina ahead.

Argentina ranks 53rd and India ranks 55th 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
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.