List of countries by Fragile States Index

This is a list of countries by order of appearance in the Fragile States Index (formerly the Failed States Index) of the United States think-tank Fund for Peace. A fragile state has several attributes. Common indicators include a state whose central government is so weak or ineffective, that it has little practical control over much of its territory; non-provision of public services; widespread corruption and criminality; refugees and involuntary movement of populations and sharp economic decline.^[1] Since 2005, the index has been published annually by the Fund for Peace and the magazine Foreign Policy. The list has been cited by journalists and academics in making broad comparative points about countries or regions.^[2][3]

This is the list for 2016,^[4] with comparisons of each country's current score to previous years' indices.

The report uses 12 factors to determine the rating for each nation including security threats, economic implosion, human rights violations and refugee flows.

Indicators of a fragile state

12 factors are used by Fund For Peace to ascertain the status of a country.^[5]

Social

• Mounting demographic pressures.
• Massive displacement of refugees, creating severe humanitarian emergencies.
• Widespread vengeance-seeking group grievance.
• Chronic and sustained human flight.

Economic

• Uneven economic development along group lines.
• Severe economic decline.

Political

• Criminalization and/or delegitimization of the state.
• Deterioration of public services.
• Suspension or arbitrary application of law; widespread human rights abuses.
• Security apparatus operating as a "state within a state".
• Rise of factionalized elites.
• Intervention of external political agents.

2016

Rank	Country	2016 score	Change from 2015[6]	Change from 2014[7]	Change from 2013[8]	Change from 2012[9]	Change from 2011[10]
1	Somalia	114.0		1.4	0.1	0.9	0.6
2	South Sudan	113.8	0.7	0.9	3.2	5.4	N/A
3	Central African Republic	112.1	0.2	1.5	6.8	8.3	7.1
4	Sudan	111.5	0.7	1.4	0.5	2.1	2.8
5	Yemen	111.5	3.4	6.1	4.5	6.7	11.2
6	Syria	110.8	2.9	9.2	13.4	16.3	24.9
7	Chad	110.1	1.7	1.4	1.1	2.5	0.2
8	Democratic Republic of the Congo	110.0	0.3	0.2	1.9	1.2	1.8
9	Afghanistan	107.9		1.4	1.2	1.9	0.4
10	Haiti	105.1	0.6	0.8	0.7	0.2	2.9
11	Iraq	104.7	0.2	2.5	0.8	0.4	0.1
12	Guinea	103.8	1.1	1.1	2.5	1.9	1.3
13	Nigeria	103.5	1.1	3.8	2.8	2.4	3.6
14	Pakistan	101.7	1.2	1.3	1.2	0.1	0.6
15	Burundi	100.7	2.6	3.6	3.1	3.2	2.1
16	Zimbabwe	100.5	0.5	2.3	4.7	5.8	7.4
17	Guinea-Bissau	99.8	0.1	0.8	1.3	0.6	1.5
18	Eritrea	98.6	1.7	3.1	3.6	4.1	5.0
19	Niger	98.4	0.6	0.5	0.6	1.5	0.7
20	Kenya	98.3	0.9	0.7	1.3	0.1	0.4
21	Côte d'Ivoire	97.9	2.1	3.8	5.6	5.7	4.9
22	Cameroon	97.8	3.5	4.7	4.3	4.7	3.2
23	Uganda	97.7	0.7	1.7	1.1	1.2	1.4
24	Ethiopia	97.2	0.3	0.7	1.7	0.7	1.0
25	Libya	96.4	1.1	8.6	11.9	11.5	27.7
26	Myanmar	96.3	1.6	2.0	1.7	0.1	2.0
27	Liberia	95.5	1.8	1.2	0.4	2.2	1.5
28	Mauritania	95.4	0.5	2.4	3.7	7.8	7.4
29	Mali	95.2	2.1	5.4	5.9	17.3	15.9
30	North Korea	93.9	0.1	0.1	1.2	1.6	1.7
31	Republic of the Congo	92.2	1.4	2.6	2.2	2.1	0.8
32	Rwanda	91.3	1.1	0.8	2.0	2.0	0.3
33	Nepal	91.2	0.7	0.2	0.6	1.8	2.5
34	Sierra Leone	91.0	0.9	1.1	0.2	0.6	1.1
35	Timor-Leste	90.8	0.2	0.2	0.7	1.9	4.1
36	Bangladesh	90.7	1.1	2.1	1.8	1.5	3.7
37	Angola	90.5	2.4	3.1	3.4	5.4	5.9
38	Egypt	90.2	0.2	0.8	0.4	0.2	3.4
39	Djibouti	89.7	1.6	2.6	4.2	5.9	7.1
40	Lebanon	89.6	1.5	2.7	3.3	3.8	1.9
41	Burkina Faso	89.4	0.2	0.4	0.8	2.0	0.8
42	Mozambique	87.8	0.9	1.9	5.0	5.4	4.2
43	Sri Lanka	87.7	2.9	4.9	5.2	4.5	5.4
44	Malawi	87.6	0.7	1.5	1.6	1.2	3.6
45	Swaziland	87.6	1.3	1.8	2.0	4.1	5.1
46	Cambodia	87.4	0.5	1.1	0.6	1.3	1.1
47	Iran	86.9	0.3	0.3	2.8	2.7	3.3
48	Gambia	86.8	1.4	3.7	5.0	6.2	5.9
49	Zambia	86.3	1.1	0.1	0.3	0.4	2.5
50	Papua New Guinea	86.2	2.8	2.1	1.3	2.5	2.0
51	Togo	85.8	1.0	2.0	2.0	1.7	3.6
52	Solomon Islands	85.3	0.6	1.1	0.1	0.3	0.6
53	Equatorial Guinea	85.2	0.4	0.1	0.9	1.1	2.9
54	Philippines	84.7	1.6	0.6	1.9	1.5	0.3
55	Laos	84.4	0.1	0.1	0.7	1.1	2.3
56	Madagascar	84.2	0.6	1.1	1.5	1.7	1.0
57	Comoros	83.8	0.5	1.3	0.2	0.8
58	Tajikistan	83.8	0.4	0.8	1.4	1.9	4.5
59	Senegal	83.6	0.6	0.8	2.2	4.3	6.8
60	Uzbekistan	83.5	1.9	2.8	3.4	4.0	4.8
61	Guatemala	83.2	2.8	2.9	2.5	3.8	3.1
62	Tanzania	81.8	1.0	1.0	0.7	1.4	0.5
63	Venezuela	81.6	3.0	4.9	6.3	4.3	3.4
64	Kyrgyzstan	81.1	1.1	2.8	4.6	6.3	10.7
65	Russia	81.0	1.0	4.5	3.9	3.9	3.3
66	Lesotho	80.9	1.0	2.3	1.5	1.9	0.5
67	Colombia	80.2	2.3	2.9	3.6	4.2	6.8
68	Honduras	79.8	1.6	1.9	1.5	1.3	1.5
69	Israel / West Bank	79.7	0.3	0.2	1.1	2.5	4.7
70	India	79.6	0.2	2.7	2.1	1.6	0.3
71	Nicaragua	79.0		0.6	0.2	0.6	2.2
72	Benin	78.9	0.1	0.7	1.0	0.3	1.1
73	Georgia	78.9	0.4	3.8	5.3	5.9	7.5
74	Thailand	78.8	0.3	1.8	3.7	1.8	0.5
75	Bolivia	78.5	0.5	0.4	2.3	3.6	4.4
76	Algeria	78.3	1.3	0.5	0.4	0.2	0.3
77	Jordan	78.0	1.1	1.3	2.3	3.2	3.5
78	Bhutan	77.6	1.1	3.3	4.2	4.8	7.4
79	Turkey	77.3	2.8	3.2	1.4	0.7	5.8
80	Micronesia	77.1	3.5	2.5	4.2	5.2	5.2
81	Azerbaijan	76.3	1.0	1.5	1.9	3.5	5.6
82	Fiji	76.2	0.6	2.8	4.6	4.3	4.9
83	Turkmenistan	76.0	1.5	2.2	0.7	1.4	3.7
84	Ecuador	75.6	0.3	1.7	3.0	4.5	6.6
85	Ukraine	75.5	0.8	8.3	9.6	8.3	6.5
86	China	74.9	1.5	4.1	6.0	3.4	5.2
87	Indonesia	74.9	0.1	1.9	3.3	5.7	6.7
88	Bosnia	74.6	2.8	1.3	1.9	3.3	6.3
89	Tunisia	74.6	1.2	2.9	1.9	0.4	4.5
90	Morocco	74.2	0.4	0.2	0.1	1.9	2.1
91	Maldives	74.0	0.2	1.4	1.4	1.1	1.6
92	Belarus	73.9	1.7	1.1	2.8	2.7	3.7
93	Moldova	73.2	0.2	1.9	3.3	5.5	8.0
94	São Tomé and Príncipe	72.9	0.8	2.9	1.7	1.0	1.6
95	Paraguay	72.6	1.3	1.0	0.8	1.7	0.2
96	El Salvador	72.5	1.1	0.5	0.7	1.9	3.5
97	Saudi Arabia	72.2	0.6	0.9	0.5	1.2	3.0
98	Gabon	72.0	0.7	0.2	0.9	2.6	3.3
99	Peru	72.0	0.1	0.9	0.3	1.5	1.6
100	Serbia	72.0	1.8		2.4	3.0	2.4
101	Cape Verde	71.5	2.0	2.6	2.2	3.2	4.3
102	Ghana	71.2	0.7	0.5	2.1	3.7	3.5
103	Namibia	71.1	0.3	0.4	0.7	0.1	0.6
104	Guyana	70.9	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.5	1.7
105	Dominican Republic	70.8	0.4	2.6	2.4	3.3	6.1
106	Vietnam	70.7	1.7	2.0	2.4	3.3	5.4
107	Mexico	70.4	1.4	0.7	2.7	3.2	4.7
108	South Africa	69.9	2.9	3.3	2.3	3.1	2.3
109	Armenia	69.6	0.1	1.7	1.7	2.6	2.7
110	Samoa	67.6	0.6	1.7	1.1	0.9	1.9
111	Macedonia	67.0	2.5	0.6	1.0	2.1	4.0
112	Suriname	66.7	1.7	3.9	4.5	4.5	4.4
113	Kazakhstan	66.5	1.8	2.0	3.3	4.4	3.7
114	Cuba	66.3	1.1	4.5	6.5	6.8	10.3
115	Malaysia	66.1	0.2	0.1		2.4	2.6
116	Belize	66.0	0.7	1.0	1.2	1.2	1.7
117	Brazil	65.3	2.7	3.9	3.2	1.2	0.2
118	Jamaica	65.0	0.4	0.1	0.6	0.8	2.1
119	Cyprus	64.0	2.2	3.9	3.0	2.8	3.6
120	Botswana	63.5	0.7	1.0	0.5	3.0	4.4
121	Bahrain	63.4	0.9	1.3	0.5	1.2	4.4
122	Grenada	63.0	0.4	2.2	1.6	2.0	3.4
123	Brunei	62.0	1.0	1.6	1.2	2.1	3.8
124	Albania	61.2	0.7	2.4	4.0	4.9	4.9
125	Seychelles	60.2	1.9	3.5	3.8	4.9	6.8
126	Kuwait	58.5	1.0	0.5	1.1	0.3	1.0
127	Trinidad and Tobago	57.8	0.9	3.5	4.8	6.6	5.9
128	Mongolia	56.6	0.4	1.5	1.2	2.1	3.0
129	Antigua and Barbuda	56.2	1.6	2.8	1.8	2.7	3.7
130	Greece	55.9	3.3	3.8	5.3	5.5	8.5
131	Montenegro	55.2	1.0	0.5	0.8	0.3	1.1
132	Bulgaria	53.7	1.7	0.7	1.3	2.6	5.3
133	Panama	53.2	1.4	2.5	2.6	2.9	4.6
134	Romania	52.9	1.3	4.0	4.5	6.6	6.9
135	Hungary	52.7	3.6	4.4	5.1	4.4	4.0
136	Croatia	52.4	1.4	0.5	1.7	3.9	4.9
137	Oman	51.6	0.4	1.5	0.4	0.1	2.3
138	Bahamas	51.6		2.5	3.1	3.5	4.9
139	Barbados	49.0	0.3	2.4	1.8	3.0	3.8
140	Argentina	48.4	0.8	1.1	2.3	1.9	1.6
141	Latvia	47.4	1.2	0.6	0.5	4.5	6.8
142	Costa Rica	45.1	1.6	3.4	3.6	4.6	5.5
143	Qatar	45.1	1.2	3.8	2.0	2.9	4.4
144	Slovakia	44.9	2.3	0.4	0.4	2.5	2.2
145	United Arab Emirates	44.5	1.7	3.1	2.8	4.4	5.9
146	Estonia	43.4	0.4	1.8	1.9	4.1	5.9
147	Mauritius	43.2	2.0	2.9	1.3	1.5	1.0
148	Italy	43.1	0.1	0.3	1.5	2.7	2.7
149	Lithuania	42.4	0.6	0.8	0.6	1.8	2.9
150	Chile	41.9	0.4	0.1	0.4	1.6	1.2
151	Czech Republic	40.8	3.4	1.4	0.9	1.3	1.6
152	Poland	40.7	0.9	1.4	0.2	3.6	6.1
153	Spain	39.8	1.1	3.3	4.6	3.0	3.3
154	Malta	39.6	1.3	3.4	2.8	4.2	5.8
155	Uruguay	36.2	0.3	1.7	2.2	4.3	4.2
156	South Korea	36.1	0.2	0.3	0.7	1.5	2.7
157	Japan	35.1	0.9	1.2	1.0	8.4	4.1
158	France	34.5	0.8	0.3	1.9	0.9	0.5
159	United States	34.0	1.3	1.4	0.5	0.8	0.8
160	Slovenia	33.9	2.3	1.3	1.6	0.1	1.6
161	Singapore	32.9	1.5	3.0	1.1	2.7	2.2
162	United Kingdom	32.4	1.0	1.9	0.8	2.9	1.7
163	Portugal	29.2	0.5	3.9	3.4	5.0	3.1
164	Belgium	29.0	1.4	3.0	1.9	4.5	5.1
165	Germany	28.6	0.5	2.0	1.1	3.1	5.3
166	Netherlands	28.2	1.4	0.4	1.3	0.1	0.1
167	Austria	27.5	1.5	1.0	0.6		0.2
168	Luxembourg	24.1	1.9	0.5	0.8	1.4	2.0
169	Canada	23.8	1.9	3.6	2.2	3.0	3.9
170	Iceland	22.8	0.6	3.1	1.9	6.3	7.3
171	Sweden	22.6	2.4	1.2	2.9	1.3	0.2
172	Ireland	22.5	2.2	3.6	2.3	4.0	2.8
173	Australia	22.5	1.8	3.8	2.9	6.7	5.6
174	Switzerland	21.8	0.5	1.5	0.3	1.5	1.4
175	Denmark	21.5		1.3	0.4	1.5	2.3
176	New Zealand	21.3	1.3	2.8	1.4	4.3	3.5
177	Norway	21.2	0.4	1.8	0.3	2.7	0.8
178	Finland	18.8	1.0	0.1	0.8	1.2	0.9

Previous

2013

Failed States according to the "Failed States Index 2013" of Fund for Peace^[8]

2012

Failed States according to the "Failed States Index 2012" of Foreign Policy^[9]

2011

Failed States according to the "Failed States Index 2011" of Foreign Policy^[10]

References

1. ↑ "What Does "State Fragility" Mean?". Fund for Peace. Retrieved 31 August 2015. 
2. ↑ "Failing States: SOS". The Economist. June 19, 2007. Retrieved 1 December 2012. 
3. ↑ Bloom, David E. (May 5, 2011). "Africa's Daunting Challenges". New York Times. Retrieved 1 December 2012. 
4. ↑ Fragile States Index 2016 The Fund for Peace
5. ↑ Indicators The Fund for Peace. Retrieved on 2015-08-31.
6. ↑ Fragile States Index 2015
7. ↑ Failed States Index 2014
8. 1 2 Failed States Index 2013
9. 1 2 Failed States Index 2012
10. 1 2 Failed States Index 2011

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