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Egypt vs Kuwait: State Capacity Index

Egypt
0.2569
in 2015
Kuwait
0.2707
in 2015
Egypt rank
101st
Kuwait rank
98th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Egypt
  • Kuwait
-0.500.511.5196019872015

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 0.2707 against 0.2569 in Egypt, a difference of 0.0138.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times Egypt's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1963 it was Kuwait ahead.

Egypt ranks 101st and Kuwait ranks 98th 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.