Bureaucracy as form and bureaucratization as process have long been central to organizational analysis. Yet, there have been few attempts to define degree of bureaucratization in terms that are operational and useful at the societal or cross-national level. In the present research, multiple indicators based on several structural dimensions of bureaucracy are developed for use when societies are the unit of analysis. The relationships among the indicators are empirically examined and shown to be consistent with familiar theoretical formulations. In the process, problems arising from definitional dependencies among complex variables are treated in some detail. Finally, employing conventional techniques of index construction, including factor analysis, a multivariate index of the degree of bureaucratization is derived that appears to be acceptable from the standpoint of reliability and validity criteria.