Indonesia vs United Arab Emirates: State Capacity Index

Indonesia

0.6743

in 2015

United Arab Emirates

0.7112

in 2015

Indonesia rank

64th

United Arab Emirates rank

63rd

State Capacity Index over time

Indonesia
United Arab Emirates

How they compare

United Arab Emirates currently reports 0.7112 against 0.6743 in Indonesia, a difference of 0.0369.

That makes United Arab Emirates's figure about 1.1 times Indonesia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1971 it was United Arab Emirates ahead.

Indonesia ranks 64th and United Arab Emirates ranks 63rd 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
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.