Sri Lanka vs Ukraine: State Capacity Index

Sri Lanka

0.3371

in 2015

Ukraine

0.3095

in 2015

Sri Lanka rank

94th

Ukraine rank

95th

State Capacity Index over time

Sri Lanka
Ukraine

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 0.3371 against 0.3095 in Ukraine, a difference of 0.0276.

That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.1 times Ukraine's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 25 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Ukraine ahead.

Sri Lanka ranks 94th and Ukraine ranks 95th 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.