France vs Israel: State Capacity Index

France

1.64

in 2015

Israel

1.75

in 2015

France rank

23rd

Israel rank

20th

State Capacity Index over time

France
Israel

How they compare

Israel currently reports 1.75 against 1.64 in France, a difference of 0.113.

That makes Israel's figure about 1.1 times France's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was France ahead.

France ranks 23rd and Israel ranks 20th of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in France
State Capacity Index in Israel
Full country ranking

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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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.