1 CINC Dataset Updated: 2008-2013 1 Víctor M. Mijares 2 Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela) vmijares@usb.ve ABSTRACT A recurring complaint among scholars devoted to the study of the distribution of power in the international system, is the obsolescence of databases and data sets. With special interest is expected the Composite Index of National Capability (CINC) data set’s official update, a product sponsored by The Correlates of War Project. This data set does not replace CINC’s public data nor is it intended to be an official update. It is a contribution hopes to fill a temporary vacuum until those responsible to update the data set from 2008 onwards. KEYWORDS National Power; International Polarity; CINC. The CINC The Composite Index of National Capabilities is a statistical measure of national power formulated by J. David Singer for the Correlates of War project in 1963. It uses an average of percentages of world totals in six different components. The components represent demographic, economic, and military strength, and each component is a share percentage of world’s totals. National Capabilities Demographic Economic Military Indicators Total Population Ratio (TPR) Urban Population Ratio (UPR) Iron and Steel Production Ratio (ISPR) Primary Energy Consumption Ratio (ECR) Military Expenditure Ratio (MER) Military Personnel Ratio (MPR) 1 Please cite as: Mijares, Víctor M., Cinc Dataset Updated: 2008-2013 (2016). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2783521 2 The author acknowledges the assistance of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies’ library staff, as well as the staff of the ZBW German National Library of Economics, both institutions located in Hamburg, Germany