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Bulgaria vs Uruguay: State Capacity Index

Bulgaria
1.17
in 2015
Uruguay
1.29
in 2015
Bulgaria rank
38th
Uruguay rank
36th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Bulgaria
  • Uruguay
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How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 1.29 against 1.17 in Bulgaria, a difference of 0.128.

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

The two have swapped places 1 time across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Bulgaria ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 38th and Uruguay ranks 36th 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.