Statizoid

United Kingdom vs United States: State Capacity Index

United Kingdom
1.78
in 2015
United States
1.86
in 2015
United Kingdom rank
17th
United States rank
16th

State Capacity Index over time

  • United Kingdom
  • United States
00.511.52196019872015

How they compare

United States currently reports 1.86 against 1.78 in United Kingdom, a difference of 0.083.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was United States ahead.

United Kingdom ranks 17th and United States ranks 16th of 165 countries.

Individual pages

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

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.