Statizoid

Brazil vs India: State Capacity Index

Brazil
0.7382
in 2015
India
0.767
in 2015
Brazil rank
58th
India rank
55th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Brazil
  • India
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How they compare

India currently reports 0.767 against 0.7382 in Brazil, a difference of 0.0288.

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

Brazil ranks 58th and India ranks 55th 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.