Japan vs United Kingdom: State Capacity Index

Japan

1.77

in 2015

United Kingdom

1.78

in 2015

Japan rank

19th

United Kingdom rank

17th

State Capacity Index over time

Japan
United Kingdom

How they compare

United Kingdom currently reports 1.78 against 1.77 in Japan, a difference of 0.009.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 19th and United Kingdom ranks 17th of 165 countries.

Individual pages

State Capacity Index in Japan
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.