Statizoid

El Salvador vs Iran: State Capacity Index

El Salvador
0.4873
in 2015
Iran
0.5043
in 2015
El Salvador rank
83rd
Iran rank
81st

State Capacity Index over time

  • El Salvador
  • Iran
-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

Iran currently reports 0.5043 against 0.4873 in El Salvador, a difference of 0.017.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was El Salvador ahead.

El Salvador ranks 83rd and Iran ranks 81st 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.