Israel vs United Kingdom: State Capacity Index

Israel

1.75

in 2015

United Kingdom

1.78

in 2015

Israel rank

20th

United Kingdom rank

17th

State Capacity Index over time

Israel
United Kingdom

How they compare

United Kingdom currently reports 1.78 against 1.75 in Israel, a difference of 0.022.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was United Kingdom ahead.

Israel ranks 20th and United Kingdom ranks 17th of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in Israel
State Capacity Index in United Kingdom
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.