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Costa Rica vs Malaysia: State Capacity Index

Costa Rica
0.8696
in 2015
Malaysia
0.8117
in 2015
Costa Rica rank
50th
Malaysia rank
51st

State Capacity Index over time

  • Costa Rica
  • Malaysia
-0.2500.250.50.751196019872015

How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 0.8696 against 0.8117 in Malaysia, a difference of 0.0579.

That makes Costa Rica's figure about 1.1 times Malaysia's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 50th and Malaysia ranks 51st 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.