Statizoid

Sweden vs Switzerland: State Capacity Index

Sweden
2.35
in 2015
Switzerland
2.27
in 2015
Sweden rank
5th
Switzerland rank
8th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
11.522.5196019872015

How they compare

Sweden currently reports 2.35 against 2.27 in Switzerland, a difference of 0.082.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Sweden ahead.

Sweden ranks 5th and Switzerland ranks 8th 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.