Egypt vs El Salvador: Sovereign state (Gleditsch)
Egypt
1
in 2025
El Salvador
1
in 2025
Egypt rank
1st
El Salvador rank
1st
Sovereign state (Gleditsch) over time
- Egypt
- El Salvador
How they compare
Egypt currently reports 1 against 1 in El Salvador, a difference of 0.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 210 shared years of data; in 1816 it was El Salvador ahead.
Egypt ranks 1st and El Salvador ranks 1st of 194 countries.
Across the 22 decades both report, Egypt averaged higher in 2 and El Salvador in 8.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Egypt | El Salvador | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1810s | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1820s | 0.3 | 0 | 0.3 | Egypt |
| 1830s | 1 | 0 | 1 | Egypt |
| 1840s | 1 | 1 | 0 | — |
| 1850s | 0.6 | 1 | 0.4 | El Salvador |
| 1860s | 0 | 1 | 1 | El Salvador |
| 1870s | 0 | 1 | 1 | El Salvador |
| 1880s | 0 | 1 | 1 | El Salvador |
| 1890s | 0 | 1 | 1 | El Salvador |
| 1900s | 0 | 1 | 1 | El Salvador |
| 1910s | 0 | 1 | 1 | El Salvador |
| 1920s | 0.8 | 1 | 0.2 | El Salvador |
| 1930s | 1 | 1 | 0 | — |
| 1940s | 1 | 1 | 0 | — |
| 1950s | 1 | 1 | 0 | — |
| 1960s | 1 | 1 | 0 | — |
| 1970s | 1 | 1 | 0 | — |
| 1980s | 1 | 1 | 0 | — |
| 1990s | 1 | 1 | 0 | — |
| 2000s | 1 | 1 | 0 | — |
| 2010s | 1 | 1 | 0 | — |
| 2020s | 1 | 1 | 0 | — |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sovereign state, Egypt or El Salvador?
- Egypt, at 1 against 1 in El Salvador as of 2025.
- What is the difference in sovereign state between Egypt and El Salvador?
- 0, with Egypt ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Egypt and El Salvador?
- 210 years are reported by both, from 1816 to 2025.
- How do Egypt and El Salvador rank globally for sovereign state?
- Egypt ranks 1st and El Salvador ranks 1st of 194 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Gleditsch and Ward (2007) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as Sovereign state. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The country is identified as a sovereign state by Gleditsch and Ward dataset.