Greece vs Uruguay: State Capacity Index

Greece

1.42

in 2015

Uruguay

1.29

in 2015

Greece rank

33rd

Uruguay rank

36th

State Capacity Index over time

Greece
Uruguay

How they compare

Greece currently reports 1.42 against 1.29 in Uruguay, a difference of 0.125.

That makes Greece's figure about 1.1 times Uruguay's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Greece ahead.

Greece ranks 33rd and Uruguay ranks 36th of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in Greece
State Capacity Index in Uruguay
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.