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 2018,^[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

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

Mounting demographic pressures and tribal, ethnic and/or religious conflicts.
Massive internal and external displacement of refugees, creating severe humanitarian emergencies.
Widespread vengeance-seeking group grievances.
Chronic and sustained human flight.

Economic

Widespread corruption
High economic inequality
Uneven economic development along group lines.
Severe economic decline.

Political

Delegitimization of the state.
Deterioration of public services.
Suspension or arbitrary application of law; widespread human rights abuses.
Security forces operating as a "state within a state" often with impunity.
Rise of factionalized elites.
Intervention of external political agents and foreign states.

2018 Fragile States Index

Rank	Country	2018 score	Change from 2017	Change from 2016	Change from 2015	Change from 2014	Change from 2013
1	South Sudan	113.4	0.5	0.4	1.1	0.5	2.8
2	Somalia	113.2	0.2	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.7
3	Yemen	112.7	1.6	1.2	4.6	7.3	5.7
4	Syria	111.4	0.8	0.6	3.5	9.8	14.0
5	Central African Republic	111.1	1.5	1.0	0.8	0.5	5.8
6	Democratic Republic of the Congo	110.7	0.7	0.7	1.0	0.5	1.2
7	Sudan	108.7	1.9	2.8	2.1	1.4	2.3
8	Chad	108.3	1.1	1.8	0.1	0.4	0.7
9	Afghanistan	106.6	0.7	1.3	1.3	0.1	0.1
10	Zimbabwe	102.3	0.7	1.8	2.3	0.5	2.9
11	Iraq	102.2	3.2	2.5	2.3		1.7
12	Haiti	102.0	3.3	3.1	2.5	2.3	3.8
13	Guinea	101.6	0.8	2.2	3.3	1.1	0.3
14	Nigeria	99.9	1.7	3.6	2.5	0.2	0.8
15	Ethiopia	99.6	1.5	2.4	2.1	1.7	0.7
16	Guinea-Bissau	98.1	1.4	1.7	1.8	2.5	3.0
17	Kenya	97.4	1.0	0.9		1.6	2.2
18	Burundi	97.4	1.5	3.3	0.7	0.3	0.2
19	Eritrea	97.2	0.9	1.4	0.3	1.7	2.2
20	Pakistan	96.3	2.6	5.4	6.6	6.7	6.6
21	Niger	96.2	1.2	2.2	1.6	1.7	2.8
22	Myanmar	96.1	0.4	0.2	1.4	1.8	1.5
23	Cameroon	95.3	0.3	2.5	1.0	2.2	1.8
24	Uganda	95.1	0.9	2.6	1.9	0.9	1.5
25	Libya	94.6	1.7	1.8	0.7	6.8	10.1
26	Cote d'Ivoire	94.6	1.9	3.3	5.4	7.1	8.9
27	Mali	93.6	0.7	1.6	0.5	3.8	4.3
28	North Korea	93.2	0.1	0.7	0.6	0.8	1.9
29	Republic of the Congo	93.1	0.3	0.9	2.3	3.5	3.1
30	Liberia	92.6	1.2	2.9	4.7	1.7	2.5
31	Mauritania	92.2	1.5	3.2	2.7	0.8	0.5
32	Bangladesh	90.3	1.2	0.4	1.5	2.5	2.2
33	Angola	89.4	1.7	1.1	1.3	2.0	2.3
34	Rwanda	89.3	1.5	2.0	0.9	1.2
35	Sierra Leone	89.1	0.2	1.9	2.8	0.8	2.1
36	Egypt	88.7	1.1	1.5	1.3	2.3	1.9
37	Mozambique	88.7	0.3	0.9	1.8	2.8	5.9
38	Timor-Leste	88.3	2.2	2.5	2.3	2.7	3.2
39	Nepal	87.9	3.1	3.3	2.6	3.1	3.9
40	Swaziland	87.5	1.3	0.1	1.2	1.7	1.9
41	Zambia	87.2	0.6	0.9	2.0	1.0	0.6
42	Djibouti	87.1	1.8	2.6	1.0		1.6
43	Gambia	87.1	2.3	0.3	1.7	4.0	5.3
44	Lebanon	86.8	1.4	2.8	1.3	0.1	0.5
45	Burkina Faso	86.5	1.5	2.9	2.7	2.5	3.7
46	Venezuela	86.2	3.3	4.6	7.6	9.5	10.9
47	Philippines	85.5	1.1	0.8	0.8	0.2	2.7
48	Malawi	85.5	2.5	2.1	1.4	3.6	3.7
49	Togo	85.2	1.3	0.6	1.6	2.6	2.6
50	Sri Lanka	84.9	1.7	2.8	5.7	7.7	8.0
51	Papua New Guinea	84.8	1.6	1.4	1.4	0.7	0.1
52	Iran	84.3	1.5	2.6	2.9	2.9	5.4
53	Cambodia	84.0	1.7	3.4	3.9	4.5	4.0
54	Madagascar	83.6	0.4	0.6		0.5	0.9
55	Equatorial Guinea	83.4	1.6	1.8	1.4	1.9	2.7
56	Solomon Islands	83.1	1.7	2.2	2.8	3.3	2.1
57	Comoros	82.6	2.2	1.2	0.7	2.5	1.4
58	Turkey	82.2	1.4	4.9	7.7	8.1	6.3
59	Guatemala	81.8	1.3	1.4	1.4	1.5	1.1
60	Laos	80.7	1.7	3.7	3.8	3.6	3.0
61	Lesotho	80.1	1.6	0.8	0.2	1.5	0.7
62	Senegal	79.6	2.7	4.0	3.4	3.2	1.8
63	Tajikistan	79.5	2.3	4.3	3.9	5.1	5.7
64	Tanzania	79.4	0.9	2.4	1.4	1.4	1.7
65	Uzbekistan	79.1	2.4	4.4	6.3	7.2	7.8
66	Kyrgyzstan	78.6	1.7	2.5	3.6	5.3	7.1
67	Israel/ West Bank (weighted average)	78.5	0.4	1.2	0.9	1.0	2.3
68	Honduras	77.3	1.8	2.5	0.9	0.6	1.0
69	Russia	77.2	2.0	3.8	2.8	0.7	0.1
70	Jordan	76.8	1.9	1.2	0.1	0.1	1.1
71	Colombia	76.6	2.3	3.6	5.9	6.5	7.2
72	India	76.3	1.6	3.3	3.1	0.6	1.2
73	Algeria	75.8	1.0	2.5	3.8	3.0	2.9
74	Benin	75.7	1.9	3.2	3.1	2.5	2.2
75	Nicaragua	75.3	2.1	3.7	3.7	3.1	3.9
76	Bolivia	75.2	1.6	3.3	2.8	3.7	5.6
77	Thailand	75.0	1.2	3.8	4.1	2.0	0.1
78	Azerbaijan	74.6	1.7	1.7	2.7	3.2	3.6
79	Fiji	74.5	2.4	1.7	2.3	4.5	6.3
80	Micronesia	74.4	2.0	2.7	0.8	0.2	1.5
81	Bhutan	74.3	1.7	3.3	4.4	6.6	7.5
82	Ecuador	74.2	3.1	1.4	1.7	3.1	4.4
83	Morocco	74.0	0.9	0.2	0.6	0.4	0.3
84	Georgia	74.0	2.5	4.9	5.3	8.7	10.2
85	South Africa	72.9	0.6	3.0	5.9	6.3	5.3
86	Turkmenistan	72.6	1.8	3.4	4.9	5.6	4.1
87	Ukraine	72.6	1.4	2.9	3.7	5.4	6.7
88	Gabon	72.5	1.3	0.5	1.2	0.3	0.4
89	Maldives	72.4	2.0	1.6	1.8	3.0	3.0
90	China	72.4	2.3	2.5	4.0	6.6	8.5
91	Indonesia	72.3	0.6	2.6	2.7	4.5	5.9
92	São Tomé and Príncipe	72.1		0.8	1.6	3.7	2.5
93	Tunisia	72.1	2.1	2.5	3.7	5.4	4.4
94	Mexico	71.5	2.8	1.1	0.3	0.4	1.6
95	Bosnia and Herzegovina	71.3	1.7	3.3	6.1	4.6	5.2
96	El Salvador	71.2	1.9	1.3	0.2	0.8	2.0
97	Belarus	70.5	1.9	3.4	5.1	4.5	6.2
98	Guyana	70.4	0.9	0.5	0.1	0.6	0.4
99	Saudi Arabia	70.2	1.0	2.0	1.4	2.9	2.5
100	Peru	70.1	0.2	1.9	1.8	2.8	2.2
101	Paraguay	69.8	1.8	2.8	1.5	1.8	2.0
102	Moldova	69.5	2.5	3.7	3.5	5.6	7.0
103	Armenia	69.5	1.5	0.1	0.2	1.8	1.8
104	Dominican Republic	69.2	0.2	1.6	2.0	4.2	4.0
105	Namibia	68.8	1.6	2.3	2.0	2.7	1.6
106	Brazil	68.7	0.5	3.4	6.1	7.3	6.6
107	Vietnam	68.4	1.8	2.3	4.0	4.3	4.7
108	Ghana	68.1	1.6	3.1	3.8	2.6	1.0
109	Serbia	68.1	1.9	3.9	5.7	3.9	6.3
110	Cape Verde	68.0	2.1	3.5	5.5	6.1	5.7
111	Samoa	65.5	1.6	2.1	2.7	3.8	3.2
112	Macedonia	64.8	1.3	2.2	0.3	1.6	3.2
113	Bahrain	64.4	0.5	1.0	0.1	0.3	1.5
114	Suriname	64.0	1.9	2.7	4.4	6.6	7.2
115	Belize	63.7	1.8	2.3	1.6	3.3	3.5
116	Malaysia	63.6	1.8	2.5	2.3	2.6	2.5
117	Kazakhstan	63.4	2.5	3.1	4.9	5.1	6.4
118	Jamaica	63.1	2.1	1.9	1.5	1.8	2.5
119	Cuba	62.9	1.7	3.4	4.5	7.9	9.9
120	Botswana	62.0	1.8	1.5	0.8	2.5	2.0
121	Cyprus	60.3	2.3	3.7	5.9	7.6	6.7
122	Albania	60.1	0.4	1.1	1.8	3.5	5.1
123	Grenada	59.9	1.6	3.1	3.5	5.3	4.7
124	Brunei	59.8	1.8	2.2	3.2	3.8	3.4
125	Seychelles	56.8	2.6	3.4	5.3	6.9	7.2
126	Kuwait	55.9	2.6	2.6	1.6	3.1	3.7
127	Antigua and Barbuda	55.6	0.8	0.6	2.2	3.4	2.4
128	Montenegro	55.3	0.4	0.1	1.1	0.4	0.9
129	Greece	55.3	2.2	0.6	2.7	3.2	4.7
130	Mongolia	54.9	1.8	1.7	2.1	3.2	2.9
131	Trinidad and Tobago	54.6	2.1	3.2	4.1	6.7	8.0
132	Oman	52.6	0.1	1.0	0.6	0.5	0.6
133	Bulgaria	51.7	2.0	2.0	3.7	2.7	3.3
134	Hungary	50.2	1.8	2.5	1.1	1.9	2.6
135	Bahamas	50.0	2.4	1.6	1.6	4.1	4.7
136	Panama	49.5	1.2	3.7	5.1	6.2	6.3
137	Romania	49.4	1.5	3.5	4.8	7.5	8.0
138	Croatia	48.7	1.9	3.7	2.3	4.2	5.4
139	Barbados	48.2	1.4	0.8	1.1	3.2	2.6
140	Qatar	48.1	4.1	3.0	1.8	0.8	1.0
141	Argentina	46.1	2.1	2.3	1.5	1.2
142	Latvia	44.9	1.5	2.5	3.7	3.1	3.0
143	Italy	43.8	1.4	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.8
144	Costa Rica	43.2	0.9	1.9	3.5	5.3	5.5
145	Estonia	43.0	1.7	0.4	0.8	2.2	2.3
146	United Arab Emirates	42.8	0.9	1.7	3.4	4.8	4.5
147	Slovakia	42.5	1.8	2.4	0.1	2.8	2.8
148	Poland	41.5	0.7	0.8	1.7	0.6	0.6
149	Spain	41.4	3.5	1.6	0.5	1.7	3.0
150	Chile	40.7	0.4	1.2	0.8	1.3	1.6
151	Mauritius	40.5	1.2	2.7	4.7	5.6	4.0
152	Lithuania	39.4	2.3	3.0	3.6	3.8	3.6
153	Czech Republic	39.0	1.1	1.8	1.6	0.4	0.9
154	United States	37.7	2.1	3.7	2.4	2.3	4.2
155	Malta	36.2	2.4	3.4	4.7	6.8	6.2
156	South Korea	35.7	2.4	0.4	0.6	0.7	0.3
157	Uruguay	35.4	1.4	0.8	1.1	2.5	3.0
158	Japan	34.5	2.9	0.6	1.5	1.8	1.6
159	United Kingdom	34.3	1.1	1.9	0.9		1.1
160	France	32.2	1.3	2.3	1.5	2.6	0.4
161	Singapore	30.4	2.1	2.5	4.0	5.5	3.6
162	Slovenia	30.3	2.1	3.6	1.3	2.3	2.0
163	Belgium	29.7	1.1	0.7	0.7	2.3	1.2
164	Portugal	27.3	1.7	1.9	2.4	5.8	5.3
165	Austria	26.2	1.5	1.3	0.2	2.3	0.7
166	Netherlands	26.2	1.2	2.0	0.6	2.4	0.7
167	Germany	25.8	2.3	2.8	2.3	4.8	3.9
168	Canada	21.5	1.1	2.3	4.2	5.9	4.5
169	New Zealand	20.9	1.7	0.4	1.7	3.2	1.8
170	Sweden	20.8	1.3	1.8	0.6	0.6	1.1
171	Australia	20.8	1.5	1.7	3.5	5.5	4.6
172	Luxembourg	20.8	2.6	3.3	1.4	3.8	2.5
173	Ireland	20.7	1.6	1.8	4.0	5.4	4.1
174	Iceland	20.3	2.2	2.5	3.1	5.6	4.4
175	Denmark	19.8	1.7	1.7	1.7	3.0	2.1
176	Switzerland	19.2	1.9	2.6	3.1	4.1	2.3
177	Norway	18.3	2.2	2.9	2.5	4.7	3.2
178	Finland	17.9	0.8	0.9	0.1	0.8	0.1

References

↑ "What Does "State Fragility" Mean?". Fund for Peace. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
↑ "Failing States: SOS". The Economist. June 19, 2007. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
↑ Bloom, David E. (May 5, 2011). "Africa's Daunting Challenges". New York Times. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
↑ "Fragile States Index 2018". The Fund for Peace.
↑ "Fragile States Index and CAST Framework Methodology". The Fund for Peace.

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[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 2018". The Fund for Peace.

[5] "Fragile States Index and CAST Framework Methodology". The Fund for Peace.

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