One of nine capability dimensions
Coordination
How effectively can independent actors organize around shared objectives?
This page puts the country comparison, indicator registry and documented cases together. It shows how much of the capability the current data can see.
52 countries in the frame8 indicators in the registry2 indicators with data44 countries with a score
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The table opens alphabetically. Sort by score, confidence, coverage or trend. Scores need two observed indicators; trends use indicators observed at both ends.
Scores use one 0 to 100 scale for all countries. Each dot is a country. The box covers the middle half of the field, and the line is the median. Hollow dots have thin evidence.
| Argentina | 58.1 | 0.16 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Australia | 88.7 | 0.18 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Bolivia | 63.8 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Brazil | 84.4 | 0.16 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Canada | not measured | 0.07 | 1 of 8 | no trend |
| Chile | 81.4 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| China | 91.5 | 0.19 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Colombia | 52.7 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Costa Rica | 88.6 | 0.16 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Cuba | not measured | 0.00 | 0 of 8 | no trend |
| Dominican Republic | 62.8 | 0.16 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Ecuador | 70.5 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| El Salvador | 86.7 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Estonia | 94.6 | 0.16 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Ethiopia | 84.2 | 0.19 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Finland | 75.7 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| France | 95.9 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Germany | 84.5 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Guatemala | 47.1 | 0.16 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Haiti | 65.2 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Honduras | 67.7 | 0.16 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| India | 82.9 | 0.19 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Indonesia | 82.3 | 0.19 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Ireland | 84.6 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Israel | not measured | 0.07 | 1 of 8 | no trend |
| Japan | 63.0 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Kenya | 78.1 | 0.19 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Malaysia | 88.0 | 0.19 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Mexico | 84.9 | 0.16 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Netherlands | 98.0 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Nicaragua | 34.7 | 0.16 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Nigeria | 11.5 | 0.19 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Panama | 77.6 | 0.16 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Paraguay | 51.4 | 0.16 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Peru | 75.1 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Philippines | 79.5 | 0.13 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Poland | 95.5 | 0.19 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Rwanda | 74.4 | 0.19 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Singapore | 90.4 | 0.18 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| South Africa | 68.9 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| South Korea | 90.6 | 0.18 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Spain | 90.0 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Sweden | not measured | 0.07 | 1 of 8 | no trend |
| Switzerland | 98.3 | 0.14 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Thailand | 83.9 | 0.19 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Turkey | 79.3 | 0.17 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| United Arab Emirates | not measured | 0.07 | 1 of 8 | no trend |
| United Kingdom | not measured | 0.07 | 1 of 8 | no trend |
| United States | not measured | 0.07 | 1 of 8 | no trend |
| Uruguay | 68.6 | 0.16 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
| Venezuela | not measured | 0.06 | 1 of 8 | no trend |
| Vietnam | 81.2 | 0.18 | 2 of 8 | no trend |
0 to 100 is a position inside the frame every country builds together. Zero is the weakest on a dimension and 100 is the strongest. A score of 10 puts a country near the floor of that frame. It does not mean 10 percent of a capability.
Coordination indicators
8 indicators define this capability. Gaps and retired rows remain because they lower confidence. Click a heading to sort.
- Cdirect capability measure Measures the thing itself.
- Icapability input Measures something that supports the capability.
- Odownstream outcome Measures a result that usually follows from the capability.
- Pperception proxy Records what people or experts say, not what they did.
Coordination
| Note | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Border compliance time to export | C | hours | lower is better | World Bank | 0.30 | Observable throughput of several agencies acting together. Frozen at 2019 with Doing Business. |
| Budget execution fidelity | C | percentage points from approved budget | lower is better | World Bank | 0.15 | Observable alignment between an approved public plan and what government spent. The API covers 44 of 52 countries at 2024. Values above and below 100 both indicate deviation, so the transform measures absolute distance from the approved budget rather than rewarding overspending. See D55. |
| Civil society strengthno dataset | C | index 0-1 | higher is better | V-Dem | 0.15 | V-Dem core civil society index is inspectable and would fill this. Not yet wired; it needs its own ingestion adapter. |
| Government effectivenessretired | P | z-score -2.5 to 2.5 | higher is better | World Bank | 0.60 | Retired 2026-08-26. The WGI aggregate the opinions of experts and firms, and in this set the four WGI series correlate with each other between 0.93 and 0.98 while correlating with log GDP per capita at 0.91. That is one perception of national wealth counted in three dimensions. Cross-agency delivery records are the replacement and they are a declared gap. See D23 and A4. |
| Logistics performanceretired | P | index 1-5 | higher is better | World Bank | 0.50 | Retired 2026-08-26. The LPI is a survey of international freight forwarders, so it records how a country looks to global logistics firms. A small country with a small port scores low whatever its state can organise, which is artefact A9. Container throughput and border time are observable and stay. See D23. |
| Public-private collaborationno dataset | C | index 0-100 | higher is better | none | 0.25 | No comparable dataset. PPP investment databases measure infrastructure finance, not collaboration capacity. |
| Regulatory qualityretired | P | z-score -2.5 to 2.5 | higher is better | World Bank | 0.60 | Retired 2026-08-26. Same measurement as government effectiveness, filed under a different name, correlating with it above 0.93. See D23 and A4. |
| University-industry collaborationno dataset | C | index 0-100 | higher is better | Global Innovation Index | 0.40 | GII carries it, but the underlying item is a WEF executive opinion survey whose microdata is not inspectable. Excluded on principle 4. |
Documented deliveries add context to the data
These records describe a country doing something this capability should capture. They stay outside the score because one case is not a comparable series.
Evidence for missing indicators
Each record describes a case the indicators above cannot see. It does not affect the score or confidence because one case is not comparable across countries. A gap can become an indicator when a comparable series covers at least two countries.
The Fraunhofer contract-research modellinked to University-industry collaboration, started 1973, still operating
Germany funds the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's institutes in proportion to what they earn from industry, and in 2025 the society performed 3.2 billion euros of contract research, 966 million euros of it paid by industry.
966,000,000 euros, industrial revenue, 2025. 3,200,000,000 euros, contract research volume, 2025. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, facts and figures, retrieved 2026-08-27.
How it worked: The state pays each institute a base grant that grows with the industrial income it wins, so every institute director is structurally forced to sell applied research to firms while the public base keeps the science honest.
Limits: The figures are the society's own. Revenue measures demand for applied research, not whether knowledge moves between universities and firms, which is what the indicator asks about, and Fraunhofer sits beside the university system rather than inside it, so a reader can argue the model routes around university-industry collaboration as much as it evidences it. Roughly two-thirds of the budget is still public money.
M-Pesa, and the regulator that let it runlinked to Public-private collaboration, started 2007, still operating
Kenya's central bank let a phone company build a national payments system in 2007 and supervised it into ubiquity, and by June 2026 Kenya had 94.2 million registered mobile money accounts and 572,104 agents, in a population of about 55 million.
94,200,000 accounts, registered mobile money accounts, 2026-06. Central Bank of Kenya, mobile payments statistics, retrieved 2026-08-27.
How it worked: The central bank issued a letter of no objection instead of demanding a banking licence, set conditions on trust accounts holding customer float, and wrote the e-money regulations after the system worked, legalising what it had learned rather than licensing what it could imagine.
Limits: The delivery was Safaricom's, a majority-private company, so the record bears on public-private collaboration only through what the state did: permit, then supervise, then regulate interoperability. Registered accounts overstate people, since many Kenyans hold several, and account counts say nothing about fees, which are materially higher than card rails elsewhere. A single dominant operator is also a concentration the indicator's construct does not reward.
Dual-track vocational traininglinked to Public-private collaboration, started 2004, still operating
Switzerland runs most upper-secondary education through firms: of 218,259 students enrolled in vocational education and training in 2020, 90.6 percent, 197,782, were apprentices trained inside companies under federal law.
197,782 apprentices, apprentices in dual-track training, 2020. 90.6 % of VET students, share of vet students in the dual track, 2020. Cedefop, European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, dual-track VET scheme fiche, retrieved 2026-08-27.
How it worked: Federal law makes firms, cantons and professional associations joint owners of training: associations write the curricula for their own occupations, firms hire and pay apprentices to do real work, and the state examines and certifies, so the labour market signals what to teach.
Limits: Enrolment counts participation in the system, not what the training is worth; the wage and employment evidence sits in separate studies. The system long predates the number: 2004 is the current federal act, not the start of apprenticeship in Switzerland, and the record cannot show how much of the outcome is the law versus a century of employer habit. Firms train because it pays them net of apprentice output, and that arithmetic, not the statute, is the load-bearing part.
Itaipu Binacional, the treaty-built power systemlinked to Public-private collaboration, started 1974, still operating
Brazil and Paraguay built and operate Itaipu through a treaty-based binational entity, which reached 14,000 megawatts of installed capacity and has supplied both countries since the first unit entered operation in 1984.
14,000 MW, installed generating capacity, 2007. Itaipu Binacional, institutional information, retrieved 2026-08-29.
How it worked: Brazil and Paraguay converted a contested shared river into a jointly governed operating institution with its own legal personality, fixed allocation rules and a long-lived technical system.
Limits: Installed capacity shows the scale of the physical system, not the quality of the bilateral relationship, the project's cost or the distribution of its benefits. A treaty structure can hold a joint asset together while leaving wider coordination between the countries unresolved.
Read how the benchmark turns an indicator into a score on the method page. The limits page records where this capability is still poorly observed.