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Colombia vs Thailand: State Capacity Index

Colombia
0.6181
in 2015
Thailand
0.5795
in 2015
Colombia rank
73rd
Thailand rank
76th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Colombia
  • Thailand
-0.500.51196019872015

How they compare

Colombia currently reports 0.6181 against 0.5795 in Thailand, a difference of 0.0386.

That makes Colombia's figure about 1.1 times Thailand's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Colombia ahead.

Colombia ranks 73rd and Thailand ranks 76th 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
Last refreshed

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.