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Austria vs Belgium: State Capacity Index

Austria
2.48
in 2015
Belgium
2.38
in 2015
Austria rank
3rd
Belgium rank
4th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Austria
  • Belgium
0123196019872015

How they compare

Austria currently reports 2.48 against 2.38 in Belgium, a difference of 0.1.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Belgium ahead.

Austria ranks 3rd and Belgium ranks 4th 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.