Pakistan vs Venezuela: State Capacity Index

Pakistan
0.0124
in 2015
Venezuela
-0.026
in 2015
Pakistan rank
120th
Venezuela rank
122nd

State Capacity Index over time

  • Pakistan
  • Venezuela
-0.500.51196019872015

How they compare

Pakistan currently reports 0.0124 against -0.026 in Venezuela, a difference of 0.0383.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Venezuela ahead.

Pakistan ranks 120th and Venezuela ranks 122nd 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.