Statizoid

Australia vs New Zealand: State Capacity Index

Australia
2.22
in 2015
New Zealand
2.23
in 2015
Australia rank
10th
New Zealand rank
9th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Australia
  • New Zealand
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How they compare

New Zealand currently reports 2.23 against 2.22 in Australia, a difference of 0.017.

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

Australia ranks 10th and New Zealand ranks 9th 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.