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Jordan vs Saudi Arabia: State Capacity Index

Jordan
0.4558
in 2015
Saudi Arabia
0.4078
in 2015
Jordan rank
86th
Saudi Arabia rank
89th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Jordan
  • Saudi Arabia
-0.500.51196019872015

How they compare

Jordan currently reports 0.4558 against 0.4078 in Saudi Arabia, a difference of 0.048.

That makes Jordan's figure about 1.1 times Saudi Arabia's.

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

Jordan ranks 86th and Saudi Arabia ranks 89th 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.