Statizoid

Ireland vs Spain: State Capacity Index

Ireland
2.01
in 2015
Spain
2
in 2015
Ireland rank
13th
Spain rank
14th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Ireland
  • Spain
0.511.52196019872015

How they compare

Ireland currently reports 2.01 against 2 in Spain, a difference of 0.006.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Ireland ahead.

Ireland ranks 13th and Spain ranks 14th of 165 regions.

Individual pages

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

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.