Argentina vs Malaysia: State Capacity Index

Argentina

0.8095

in 2015

Malaysia

0.8117

in 2015

Argentina rank

53rd

Malaysia rank

51st

State Capacity Index over time

Argentina
Malaysia

How they compare

Malaysia currently reports 0.8117 against 0.8095 in Argentina, a difference of 0.0022.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Argentina ahead.

Argentina ranks 53rd and Malaysia ranks 51st of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in Argentina
State Capacity Index in Malaysia
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.