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Costa Rica vs Georgia: State Capacity Index

Costa Rica
0.8696
in 2015
Georgia
0.9021
in 2015
Costa Rica rank
50th
Georgia rank
47th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Costa Rica
  • Georgia
-1-0.500.51196019872015

How they compare

Georgia currently reports 0.9021 against 0.8696 in Costa Rica, a difference of 0.0325.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 25 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 50th and Georgia ranks 47th 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.