Kuwait vs Ukraine: State Capacity Index

Kuwait

0.2707

in 2015

Ukraine

0.3095

in 2015

Kuwait rank

98th

Ukraine rank

95th

State Capacity Index over time

Kuwait
Ukraine

How they compare

Ukraine currently reports 0.3095 against 0.2707 in Kuwait, a difference of 0.0388.

That makes Ukraine's figure about 1.1 times Kuwait's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 25 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Ukraine ahead.

Kuwait ranks 98th and Ukraine ranks 95th 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
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.