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Bulgaria vs Romania: State Capacity Index

Bulgaria
1.17
in 2015
Romania
1.02
in 2015
Bulgaria rank
38th
Romania rank
40th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Bulgaria
  • Romania
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How they compare

Bulgaria currently reports 1.17 against 1.02 in Romania, a difference of 0.149.

That makes Bulgaria's figure about 1.1 times Romania's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Bulgaria ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 38th and Romania ranks 40th 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.