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Fiji vs Saudi Arabia: State Capacity Index

Fiji
0.4425
in 2015
Saudi Arabia
0.4078
in 2015
Fiji rank
87th
Saudi Arabia rank
89th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Fiji
  • Saudi Arabia
-0.500.51196019872015

How they compare

Fiji currently reports 0.4425 against 0.4078 in Saudi Arabia, a difference of 0.0347.

That makes Fiji's figure about 1.1 times Saudi Arabia's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 46 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Fiji ahead.

Fiji ranks 87th and Saudi Arabia ranks 89th 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.