Lithuania vs Poland: State Capacity Index

Lithuania
1.49
in 2015
Poland
1.43
in 2015
Lithuania rank
29th
Poland rank
32nd

State Capacity Index over time

  • Lithuania
  • Poland
0.50.7511.21.51.8196019872015

How they compare

Lithuania currently reports 1.49 against 1.43 in Poland, a difference of 0.06.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 25 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Poland ahead.

Lithuania ranks 29th and Poland ranks 32nd 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.