Namibia vs United Arab Emirates: State Capacity Index

Namibia

0.6551

in 2015

United Arab Emirates

0.7112

in 2015

Namibia rank

66th

United Arab Emirates rank

63rd

State Capacity Index over time

Namibia
United Arab Emirates

How they compare

United Arab Emirates currently reports 0.7112 against 0.6551 in Namibia, a difference of 0.0561.

That makes United Arab Emirates's figure about 1.1 times Namibia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 26 shared years of data; in 1990 it was United Arab Emirates ahead.

Namibia ranks 66th and United Arab Emirates ranks 63rd 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.