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Australia vs Netherlands: State Capacity Index

Australia
2.22
in 2015
Netherlands
2.21
in 2015
Australia rank
10th
Netherlands rank
11th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Australia
  • Netherlands
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How they compare

Australia currently reports 2.22 against 2.21 in Netherlands, a difference of 0.005.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Netherlands ahead.

Australia ranks 10th and Netherlands ranks 11th 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.