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Bahrain vs Jordan: State Capacity Index

Bahrain
0.4698
in 2015
Jordan
0.4558
in 2015
Bahrain rank
85th
Jordan rank
86th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Bahrain
  • Jordan
-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

Bahrain currently reports 0.4698 against 0.4558 in Jordan, a difference of 0.014.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1971 it was Bahrain ahead.

Bahrain ranks 85th and Jordan ranks 86th 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.