Bulgaria vs Turkey: State Capacity Index

Bulgaria

1.17

in 2015

Turkey

in 2015

Bulgaria rank

38th

Turkey rank

41st

State Capacity Index over time

Bulgaria
Turkey

How they compare

Bulgaria currently reports 1.17 against 1 in Turkey, a difference of 0.161.

That makes Bulgaria's figure about 1.2 times Turkey's.

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

Bulgaria ranks 38th and Turkey ranks 41st of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in Bulgaria
State Capacity Index in Turkey
Full country ranking

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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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.