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Portugal vs United States: State Capacity Index

Portugal
1.77
in 2015
United States
1.86
in 2015
Portugal rank
18th
United States rank
16th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Portugal
  • United States
0.511.52196019872015

How they compare

United States currently reports 1.86 against 1.77 in Portugal, a difference of 0.089.

That makes United States's figure about 1.1 times Portugal's.

Across all 56 years both countries report, United States has been ahead every year.

Portugal ranks 18th and United States ranks 16th 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.