India vs Vietnam: State Capacity Index

India

0.767

in 2015

Vietnam

0.7557

in 2015

India rank

55th

Vietnam rank

56th

State Capacity Index over time

India
Vietnam

How they compare

India currently reports 0.767 against 0.7557 in Vietnam, a difference of 0.0113.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 40 shared years of data; in 1976 it was India ahead.

India ranks 55th and Vietnam ranks 56th of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in India
State Capacity Index in Vietnam
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.