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Qatar vs Romania: State Capacity Index

Qatar
0.9509
in 2015
Romania
1.02
in 2015
Qatar rank
43rd
Romania rank
40th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Qatar
  • Romania
-1-0.500.511.5196019872015

How they compare

Romania currently reports 1.02 against 0.9509 in Qatar, a difference of 0.0651.

That makes Romania's figure about 1.1 times Qatar's.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1971 it was Romania ahead.

Qatar ranks 43rd and Romania ranks 40th 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.