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Japan vs Portugal: State Capacity Index

Japan
1.77
in 2015
Portugal
1.77
in 2015
Japan rank
19th
Portugal rank
18th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Japan
  • Portugal
0.511.52196019872015

How they compare

Portugal currently reports 1.77 against 1.77 in Japan, a difference of 0.003.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 19th and Portugal ranks 18th 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
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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.