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State Authority over Territory, 2015

2015, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

V-Dem's measure of state authority asks what share of a country's official territory the state effectively controls — where it is the recognised authority and can prevail over insurgents, armed groups or criminal organisations that reject it. It is an expert estimate, given as a percentage.

State Authority over Territory, 2015 covers 174 countries. 13 countries share the highest reading, 100.000; Libya is lowest, at 45.188. The middle country reads 95.528. Against 2014, 47 values changed (18 up, 29 down), the same countries are covered.

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State Authority over Territory · Data for 2015

Highest13 countries share it

100.000

LowestLibya

45.188

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of State Authority over Territory, 2015, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 174 countries · select a heading to sort

State Authority over Territory, 2015: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia100.000
AustriaAUTWestern Europe100.000
BelarusBLREastern Europe100.000
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa100.000
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe100.000
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe100.000
HungaryHUNEastern Europe100.000
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe100.000
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe100.000
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe100.000
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe100.000
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe100.000
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe100.000
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe99.929
IcelandISLNorthern Europe99.923
RwandaRWAEastern Africa99.923
South KoreaKOREastern Asia99.917
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe99.917
BelgiumBELWestern Europe99.909
BulgariaBGREastern Europe99.909
SwedenSWENorthern Europe99.850
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand99.833
NorwayNORNorthern Europe99.812
Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia99.667
RomaniaROUEastern Europe99.636

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Armeniashared100.000
  2. Austriashared100.000
  3. Belarusshared100.000
  4. Cabo Verdeshared100.000
  5. Estoniashared100.000

Lowest

  1. Libya45.188
  2. Syria46.455
  3. Yemen47.455
  4. Somalia47.857
  5. Afghanistan57.125

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 95.528. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 47values changed, of 174 in both
  • 18 · 29rose · fell
  • 127unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2015.

  • 151 distinct values among 174

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 13 countries share 100.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 174 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (2015). State Authority over Territory, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/state-authority-over-territory/2015

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