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China vs Indonesia: State Capacity Index

China
0.7145
in 2015
Indonesia
0.6743
in 2015
China rank
62nd
Indonesia rank
64th

State Capacity Index over time

  • China
  • Indonesia
-1.5-1-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

China currently reports 0.7145 against 0.6743 in Indonesia, a difference of 0.0402.

That makes China's figure about 1.1 times Indonesia's.

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

China ranks 62nd and Indonesia ranks 64th 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.