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Jordan vs Panama: State Capacity Index

Jordan
0.4558
in 2015
Panama
0.413
in 2015
Jordan rank
86th
Panama rank
88th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Jordan
  • Panama
-1-0.500.5196019872015

How they compare

Jordan currently reports 0.4558 against 0.413 in Panama, a difference of 0.0428.

That makes Jordan's figure about 1.1 times Panama's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Panama ahead.

Jordan ranks 86th and Panama ranks 88th 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.