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Kuwait vs Laos: State Capacity Index

Kuwait
0.2707
in 2015
Laos
0.2661
in 2015
Kuwait rank
98th
Laos rank
100th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Kuwait
  • Laos
-1012196019872015

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 0.2707 against 0.2661 in Laos, a difference of 0.0046.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1963 it was Kuwait ahead.

Kuwait ranks 98th and Laos ranks 100th 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.