Greece vs Latvia: State Capacity Index

Greece
1.42
in 2015
Latvia
1.47
in 2015
Greece rank
33rd
Latvia rank
30th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Greece
  • Latvia
0.511.5196019872015

How they compare

Latvia currently reports 1.47 against 1.42 in Greece, a difference of 0.056.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 25 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Greece ahead.

Greece ranks 33rd and Latvia ranks 30th 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.