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 2015,^[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.

2015

Country	2015 score	Change from 2014[6]	Change from 2013[7]	Change from 2012[8]	Change from 2011[9]	Change from 2010[10]	Change from 2009[11]	Change from 2008[12]
South Sudan	114.5	1.6	3.9	6.1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Somalia	114.0	1.4	0.1	0.9	0.6	0.3	0.7	0.2
Central African Republic	111.9	1.3	6.6	8.1	6.9	5.5	6.5	8.2
Sudan	110.8	0.7	0.2	1.4	2.1	1.0	1.6	2.2
Democratic Republic of the Congo	109.7	0.5	2.2	1.5	1.5	0.5	1.0	3.0
Chad	108.4	0.3	0.6	0.8	1.9	4.9	3.8	2.5
Yemen	108.1	2.7	1.1	3.3	7.8	7.4	10.0	12.7
Syria	107.9	6.3	10.5	13.4	22.0	20.0	18.1	17.8
Afghanistan	107.9	1.4	1.2	1.9	0.4	0.6	0.3	2.5
Guinea	104.9	2.2	3.6	3.0	2.4	3.3	0.3	3.1
Haiti	104.5	0.2	1.3	0.4	3.5	5.4	2.7	5.2
Iraq	104.5	2.3	0.6	0.2	0.3	0.5	4.1	6.1
Pakistan	102.9	0.1	0.0	1.3	0.6	1.7	1.2	0.9
Nigeria	102.4	2.7	1.7	1.3	2.5	2.2	2.6	6.7
Cote d'Ivoire	100.0	1.7	3.5	3.6	2.8	2.5	2.5	4.6
Zimbabwe	100.0	2.8	5.2	6.3	7.9	9.3	14.0	12.5
Guinea Bissau	99.9	0.7	1.2	0.7	1.6	2.1	5.1	8.6
Burundi	98.1	1.0	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.7	2.4	4.0
Niger	97.8	0.1	1.2	0.9	1.3	2.2	1.3	3.3
Ethiopia	97.5	0.4	1.4	0.4	0.7	0.3	1.4	1.4
Kenya	97.4	1.6	2.2	1.0	1.3	2.0	4.0	4.0
Liberia	97.3	3.0	2.2	4.0	3.3	1.9	5.5	6.3
Uganda	97.0	1.0	0.4	0.5	0.7	0.5	0.1	0.9
Eritrea	96.9	1.4	1.9	2.4	3.3	3.3	6.6	9.5
Libya	95.3	7.5	10.8	10.4	26.6	26.2	25.9	25.3
Mauritania	94.9	1.9	3.2	7.3	6.9	6.2	6.2	8.8
Myanmar	94.7	0.4	0.1	1.5	3.6	3.5	6.8	5.6
Cameroon	94.3	1.2	0.8	1.2	0.3	1.8	1.0	3.1
North Korea	93.8	0.2	1.3	1.7	1.8	3.4	4.5	3.9
Mali	93.1	3.3	3.8	15.2	13.8	13.7	14.4	17.5
Sierra Leone	91.9	2.0	0.7	1.5	0.2	1.4	0.2	0.4
Bangladesh	91.8	1.0	0.7	0.4	2.6	3.9	6.3	8.5
Republic of the Congo	90.8	1.2	0.8	0.7	0.6	1.4	2.3	2.6
Sri Lanka	90.6	2.0	2.3	1.6	2.5	3.0	6.1	5.0
Timor-Leste	90.6	0.4	0.9	2.1	4.3	6.1	6.6	3.2
Nepal	90.5	0.5	1.3	2.5	3.2	4.9	4.9	3.7
Rwanda	90.2	0.3	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.7	1.2	2.2
Egypt	90.0	1.0	0.6	0.4	3.2	1.6	1.0	1.3
Burkina Faso	89.2	0.2	1.0	1.8	0.6	1.2	2.1	0.7
Djibouti	88.1	1.0	2.6	4.3	5.5	4.6	7.5	8.1
Angola	88.1	0.7	1.0	3.0	3.5	3.0	3.1	4.3
Lebanon	88.1	1.2	1.8	2.3	0.4	0.5	5.4	7.6
Cambodia	87.9	0.6	0.1	0.8	0.6	1.3	0.6	2.1
Iran	87.2	0.0	2.5	2.4	3.0	3.5	2.8	1.5
Mozambique	86.9	1.0	4.1	4.5	3.3	3.0	6.2	10.1
Malawi	86.9	2.2	2.3	1.9	4.3	4.8	6.9	6.0
Togo	86.8	1.0	1.0	0.7	2.6	3.7	0.4	0.0
Philippines	86.3	1.0	3.5	3.1	1.3	0.8	0.5	2.9
Swaziland	86.3	0.5	0.7	2.8	3.8	3.2	3.9	6.3
Solomon Islands	85.9	0.5	0.7	0.3	0.0	1.7	3.7	6.5
Gambia	85.4	2.3	3.6	4.8	4.5	3.7	6.4	8.5
Uzbekistan	85.4	0.9	1.5	2.1	2.9	3.3	7.4	8.0
Zambia	85.2	1.0	1.4	0.7	1.4	0.8	1.0	3.6
Equatorial Guinea	84.8	0.5	1.3	1.5	3.3	3.9	3.5	3.2
Laos	84.5	0.2	0.8	1.0	2.2	3.7	4.5	4.2
Madagascar	83.6	0.5	0.9	1.1	0.4	0.2	2.0	6.9
Tajikistan	83.4	1.2	1.8	2.3	4.9	5.7	6.9	5.5
Papua New Guinea	83.4	0.7	1.5	0.3	0.8	1.2	0.7	1.2
Comoros	83.3	1.8	0.7	0.3	0.5	0.6	3.0	3.7
Senegal	83.0	0.2	1.6	3.7	6.2	4.9	8.8	12.1
Colombia	82.5	0.6	1.3	1.9	4.5	6.0	6.7	6.5
Kyrgyzstan	82.2	1.7	3.5	5.2	9.6	10.3	6.9	6.6
Tanzania	80.8	0.0	0.3	0.4	0.5	1.7	0.3	1.7
Guatemala	80.4	0.1	0.3	1.0	0.3	0.8	0.2	0.2
Russia	80.0	3.5	2.9	2.9	2.3	1.3	0.8	0.3
Lesotho	79.9	1.3	0.5	0.9	0.5	1.4	1.9	1.8
Algeria	79.6	0.8	0.9	1.5	1.6	0.8	1.0	1.8
India	79.4	2.5	1.9	1.4	0.1	0.6	1.6	6.5
Israel/ West Bank	79.4	0.1	1.4	2.8	5.0	5.5	5.2	4.2
Georgia	79.3	3.4	4.9	5.5	7.1	8.8	12.5	4.5
Thailand	79.1	2.1	4.0	2.1	0.8	0.1	0.1	3.5
Nicaragua	79.0	0.6	0.2	0.6	2.2	3.2	3.6	2.7
Benin	78.8	0.6	0.9	0.2	1.2	1.7	3.3	6.0
Bhutan	78.7	2.2	3.1	3.7	6.3	8.6	8.6	6.7
Venezuela	78.6	1.9	3.3	1.3	0.4	0.4	0.9	0.7
Honduras	78.2	0.3	0.1	0.3	0.1	1.1	1.0	3.3
Bolivia	78.0	0.9	2.8	4.1	4.9	5.7	8.3	6.2
Turkmenistan	77.5	0.7	0.8	0.1	2.2	2.7	6.8	8.7
Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.4	1.5	0.9	0.5	3.5	4.3	5.9	6.9
Azerbaijan	77.3	0.5	0.9	2.5	4.6	5.5	7.3	3.7
Jordan	76.9	0.2	1.2	2.1	2.4	0.3	1.0	0.4
Fiji	76.8	2.2	4.0	3.7	4.3	5.1	2.0	0.2
China	76.4	2.6	4.5	1.9	3.7	4.8	8.2	3.9
Ukraine	76.3	9.1	10.4	9.1	7.3	7.1	6.6	5.5
Ecuador	75.9	1.4	2.7	4.2	6.3	7.1	5.3	4.4
Tunisia	75.8	1.7	0.7	1.6	5.7	5.2	8.2	10.2
Belarus	75.6	0.6	1.1	1.0	2.0	3.1	6.7	8.8
Indonesia	75.0	1.8	3.2	5.6	6.6	7.6	9.1	8.3
Morocco	74.6	0.2	0.3	1.5	1.7	2.9	2.5	1.2
Turkey	74.5	0.4	1.4	2.1	3.0	1.8	3.7	0.9
Maldives	74.2	1.2	1.2	0.9	1.4	2.8	4.6	6.2
Serbia	73.8	1.8	0.6	1.2	0.6	2.0	5.4	6.3
São Tomé and Príncipe	73.7	2.1	0.9	0.2	0.8	2.4	3.0	4.6
Micronesia	73.6	1.0	0.7	1.7	1.7	0.6	1.7	0.4
Cape Verde	73.5	0.6	0.2	1.2	2.3	3.5	5.0	7.2
Moldova	73.0	2.1	3.5	5.7	8.2	9.5	12.1	12.7
Vietnam	72.4	0.3	0.7	1.6	3.7	4.8	4.5	2.2
Peru	71.9	1.0	0.4	1.6	1.7	3.4	5.2	5.6
Ghana	71.9	1.2	2.8	4.4	4.2	4.0	5.7	7.3
Mexico	71.8	0.7	1.3	1.8	3.3	5.0	3.6	0.4
Saudi Arabia	71.6	1.5	1.1	1.8	3.6	5.2	5.9	5.3
El Salvador	71.4	0.6	1.8	3.0	4.6	5.7	5.8	4.1
Paraguay	71.3	0.3	0.5	0.4	1.1	3.2	0.7	1.0
Gabon	71.3	0.9	1.6	3.3	4.0	5.6	3.1	3.7
Dominican Republic	71.2	2.2	2.0	2.9	5.7	7.1	6.5	7.2
Namibia	70.8	0.7	0.4	0.2	0.9	1.9	4.8	2.1
Guyana	70.5	0.5	0.3	0.9	2.1	4.1	2.5	1.7
Armenia	69.7	1.6	1.6	2.5	2.6	4.4	4.6	1.0
Suriname	68.4	2.2	2.8	2.8	2.7	4.1	4.8	4.0
Kazakhstan	68.3	0.2	1.5	2.6	1.9	2.8	4.2	4.1
Samoa	68.2	1.1	0.5	0.3	1.3	1.3	3.2	4.2
Cuba	67.4	3.4	5.4	5.7	9.2	10.4	13.2	11.2
South Africa	67.0	0.4	0.6	0.2	0.6	0.6	0.4	4.3
Cyprus	66.2	1.7	0.8	0.6	1.4	1.7	2.7	3.5
Malaysia	65.9	0.3	0.2	2.6	2.8	2.8	3.0	1.3
Belize	65.3	1.7	1.9	1.9	2.4	2.7	4.2	4.9
Jamaica	64.6	0.3	1.0	1.2	2.5	2.9	4.0	1.1
Macedonia	64.5	1.9	3.5	4.6	6.5	7.6	9.9	10.1
Bahrain	64.3	0.4	1.4	2.1	5.3	4.2	5.3	7.5
Grenada	63.4	1.8	1.2	1.6	3.0	4.0	4.5	5.6
Brunei	63.0	0.6	0.2	1.1	2.8	4.1	5.1	5.5
Botswana	62.8	1.7	1.2	3.7	5.1	5.8	6.0	3.1
Brazil	62.6	1.2	0.5	1.5	2.5	4.4	6.5	5.0
Seychelles	62.1	1.6	1.9	3.0	4.9	5.3	5.6	7.4
Albania	61.9	1.7	3.3	4.2	4.2	5.2	8.1	7.8
Trinidad and Tobago	58.7	2.6	3.9	5.7	5.0	7.4	8.0	8.3
Antigua and Barbuda	57.8	1.2	0.2	1.1	2.1	3.7	5.0	6.3
Kuwait	57.5	1.5	2.1	1.3	2.0	2.7	5.9	4.5
Mongolia	57.0	1.1	0.8	1.7	2.6	3.9	4.9	0.8
Bulgaria	55.4	1.0	0.4	0.9	3.6	3.9	6.1	3.1
Panama	54.6	1.1	1.2	1.5	3.2	4.4	5.1	4.0
Montenegro	54.2	1.5	0.2	1.3	2.1	3.1	3.8	1.6
Romania	54.2	2.7	3.2	5.3	5.6	7.0	7.1	5.7
Greece	52.6	0.5	2.0	2.2	5.2	3.8	6.5	7.2
Oman	52.0	1.1	0.0	0.3	2.7	1.9	4.8	4.6
Bahamas	51.6	2.5	3.1	3.5	4.9	7.2	9.3	8.9
Croatia	51.0	1.9	3.1	5.3	6.3	7.9	9.1	8.4
Barbados	49.3	2.1	1.5	2.7	3.5	6.1	7.9	9.2
Hungary	49.1	0.8	1.5	0.8	0.4	0.1	1.6	1.8
Latvia	48.6	0.6	0.7	3.3	5.6	6.8	6.0	5.9
Argentina	47.6	0.3	1.5	1.1	0.8	0.6	2.9	6.2
Costa Rica	46.7	1.8	2.0	3.0	3.9	5.7	5.8	4.2
Qatar	46.3	2.6	0.8	1.7	3.2	5.5	5.6	6.4
United Arab Emirates	46.2	1.4	1.1	2.7	4.2	5.8	5.6	5.0
Mauritius	45.2	0.9	0.7	0.5	1.0	0.8	0.5	2.8
Estonia	43.8	1.4	1.5	3.7	5.5	6.9	7.4	7.2
Italy	43.2	0.2	1.4	2.6	2.6	2.7	0.7	3.3
Lithuania	43.0	0.2	0.0	1.2	2.3	2.7	5.0	5.7
Slovakia	42.6	2.7	2.7	4.8	4.5	6.1	6.0	6.2
Chile	41.5	0.5	0.8	2.0	0.8	0.2	4.0	5.2
Malta	40.9	2.1	1.5	2.9	4.5	4.9	7.9	7.4
Spain	40.9	2.2	3.5	1.9	2.2	2.6	2.4	0.7
Poland	39.8	2.3	1.1	4.5	7.0	8.0	9.8	7.8
Czech Republic	37.4	2.0	2.5	2.1	5.0	4.1	5.2	4.7
Uruguay	36.5	1.4	1.9	4.0	3.9	4.8	4.7	4.9
South Korea	36.3	0.1	0.9	1.3	2.5	1.7	5.3	4.3
Japan	36.0	0.3	0.1	7.5	5.0	4.7	4.8	6.3
United States	35.3	0.1	1.8	0.5	0.5	0.0	1.3	2.5
Singapore	34.4	1.5	0.4	1.2	0.7	1.0	0.6	1.1
France	33.7	1.1	1.1	0.1	0.3	0.2	1.6	1.1
United Kingdom	33.4	0.9	0.2	1.9	0.7	1.5	0.2	0.5
Slovenia	31.6	1.0	0.7	2.4	3.9	4.4	4.7	5.5
Belgium	30.4	1.6	0.5	3.1	3.7	4.4	3.1	1.4
Portugal	29.7	3.4	2.9	4.5	2.6	2.3	3.0	2.1
Germany	28.1	2.5	1.6	3.6	5.8	5.0	8.1	9.2
Netherlands	26.8	1.8	0.1	1.3	1.5	1.1	0.2	0.5
Austria	26.0	2.5	0.9	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.6	0.1
Canada	25.7	1.7	0.3	1.1	2.0	1.6	2.0	0.6
Ireland	24.7	1.4	0.1	1.8	0.6	0.8	3.1	4.8
Australia	24.3	2.0	1.1	4.9	3.8	3.6	1.6	0.3
Iceland	23.4	2.5	1.3	5.7	6.7	6.4	5.6	2.5
New Zealand	22.6	1.5	0.1	3.0	2.2	0.3	0.7	1.2
Switzerland	22.3	1.0	0.8	1.0	0.9	0.5	1.1	2.0
Luxembourg	22.2	2.4	1.1	3.3	3.9	5.0	5.4	5.7
Denmark	21.5	1.3	0.4	1.5	2.3	0.9	1.7	0.0
Norway	20.8	2.2	0.7	3.1	0.4	1.5	2.5	4.0
Sweden	20.2	1.2	0.5	1.1	2.6	0.7	0.4	0.4
Finland	17.8	0.9	0.2	2.2	1.9	0.9	1.4	0.6

Previous

2013

Failed States according to the "Failed States Index 2013" of Fund for Peace^[7]

Alert   Warning   Stable   Sustainable   No Information / Dependent Territory

2012

Failed States according to the "Failed States Index 2012" of Foreign Policy^[8]

Critical   In Danger   Borderline   Stable   Most Stable

2011

Failed States according to the "Failed States Index 2011" of Foreign Policy^[9]

Alert   Warning   Stable   Sustainable   No Information / Dependent Territory

2010

Failed States according to the "Failed States Index 2010" of Foreign Policy^[10]

Alert   Warning   Moderate   Sustainable   No Information / Dependent Territory

2009

Failed States according to the "Failed States Index 2009" of Foreign Policy^[11]

Alert   Warning   Moderate   Sustainable   No Information / Dependent Territory

2008

Failed States according to the "Failed States Index 2008" of Foreign Policy^[12]

Alert   Warning   Moderate   Sustainable   No Information / Dependent Territory

2007

Failed States according to the "Failed States Index 2007" of Foreign Policy^[13]

Alert   Warning   Moderate   Sustainable   No Information / Dependent Territory

2006

Failed States according to the "Failed States Index 2006" of Foreign Policy^[14]

Alert   Warning   Moderate   Sustainable   No Information / Dependent Territory

2005

Failed States according to the "Failed States Index 2005" of Foreign Policy^[15]

Alert   Warning   Moderate / Sustainable / No Information / Dependent Territory

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 2015 The Fund for Peace
5. Indicators The Fund for Peace. Retrieved on 2015-08-31.
6. Failed States Index 2014
7. Failed States Index 2013
8. Failed States Index 2012
9. Failed States Index 2011
10. Failed States Index 2010
11. Failed States Index 2009
12. Failed States Index 2008
13. Failed States Index 2007
14. Failed States Index 2006
15. Failed States Index 2005

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