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.

Countries according to the 2020 Fragile States Index

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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 2020,[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]

Social

• 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.

Fragile States Index 2020

Rank	Country	2020 score	Change from 2019	Change from 2018	Change from 2017	Change from 2016	Change from 2015
1	Yemen	112.4	1.1	0.3	1.3	0.9	4.2
2	Somalia	110.9	1.4	2.3	2.5	3.1	3.1
3	South Sudan	110.8	1.4	2.6	3.1	3.0	3.7
4	Syria	110.7	0.8	0.7	0.1	0.1	2.9
5	DR Congo	109.4	0.8	1.3	0.6	0.6	0.3
6	Central African Republic	107.5	1.4	3.6	5.1	4.6	4.4
7	Chad	106.4	2.1	1.9	3.0	3.7	2.0
8	Sudan	104.8	3.2	3.9	5.8	6.7	6.0
9	Afghanistan	102.9	2.1	3.7	4.4	5.0	5.0
10	Zimbabwe	99.2	0.3	3.1	2.4	1.3	0.8
11	Burundi	97.9	0.3	0.5	1.0	2.8	0.1
11	Cameroon	97.9	0.9	2.6	2.3	0.1	3.6
13	Haiti	97.7	1.6	4.3	7.6	7.4	6.8
14	Nigeria	97.3	1.2	2.6	4.3	6.2	5.2
15	Guinea	97.2	2.2	4.4	5.2	6.6	7.7
16	Mali	96.0	1.5	2.4	3.1	0.8	3.1
17	Iraq	95.9	3.2	6.3	9.5	8.8	8.5
18	Eritrea	95.8	0.6	1.4	2.3	2.8	1.1
19	Niger	95.3	0.9	0.9	2.1	3.1	2.5
20	Libya	95.2	3.0	0.6	1.1	1.2	0.1
21	Ethiopia	94.6	0.4	5.0	6.5	2.6	2.9
22	Myanmar	94.0	0.3	2.1	1.7	2.3	0.7
23	Guinea-Bissau	92.9	2.6	5.2	6.6	6.9	7.0
24	Uganda	92.8	2.5	2.3	3.2	4.9	4.2
25	Pakistan	92.1	2.1	4.2	6.8	9.6	10.9
25	Congo	92.1	0.4	1.0	1.3	0.1	1.3
27	Mozambique	91.7	3.0	3.0	2.7	3.9	4.8
28	Venezuela	91.2	1.9	5.0	8.3	9.6	12.5
29	Kenya	90.3	3.2	7.1	6.1	8.0	7.0
30	North Korea	90.2	2.5	3.0	3.1	3.7	3.6
31	Liberia	90.0	0.2	2.6	3.8	5.5	7.3
32	Ivory Coast	89.7	2.4	4.9	6.8	8.2	10.4
33	Mauritania	88.7	1.4	3.5	5.0	6.7	6.2
34	Angola	87.3	0.5	2.1	3.8	3.2	0.6
35	Rwanda	86.0	1.5	3.3	4.8	5.3	4.2
35	Egypt	86.0	2.4	2.7	3.8	4.2	3.9
37	Burkina Faso	85.9	2.0	0.6	2.1	3.5	3.3
38	Togo	85.8	1.6	0.6	1.9		1.0
39	Bangladesh	85.7	2.0	4.6	3.4	5.0	6.1
40	Lebanon	84.7	0.3	2.1	3.5	4.9	3.4
41	Zambia	84.5	1.2	2.7	3.3	1.8	0.6
42	Sierra Leone	84.4	2.4	4.7	4.9	6.6	7.5
43	Malawi	84.0	0.7	1.5	4.0	3.6	2.9
44	Iran	83.4	0.4	0.9	2.4	3.5	3.7
45	Equatorial Guinea	83.0	0.4	0.4	2.0	2.2	1.8
45	Eswatini	83.0	2.3	4.5	5.8	4.6	3.2
47	Djibouti	82.7	2.4	4.4	6.2	7.0	5.3
47	Timor-Leste	82.7	2.8	5.6	7.8	8.1	7.8
49	Nepal	82.6	2.1	5.3	8.4	8.6	7.9
50	Papua New Guinea	82.3	0.8	2.5	4.1	3.9	1.1
51	Gambia	82.2	1.7	4.9	7.2	4.6	3.2
52	Sri Lanka	81.8	2.2	3.1	4.8	5.9	8.9
53	Comoros	81.2	0.5	1.4	3.6	2.6	2.1
54	Philippines	81.0	2.1	4.5	3.4	3.7	5.2
55	Cambodia	80.3	2.2	3.7	5.4	7.1	7.6
56	Solomon Islands	79.7	2.2	3.4	5.1	5.6	6.2
57	Madagascar	79.5	1.4	4.1	4.5	4.7	4.1
58	Guatemala	79.2	2.2	2.6	3.9	4.0	1.2
59	Turkey	79.1	1.2	3.1	1.7	1.8	4.5
60	Lesotho	78.3	1.4	1.8	3.4	2.6	1.6
61	Tanzania	78.1	2.0	1.3	2.2	3.7	2.7
62	Nicaragua	77.1	1.0	1.8	0.3	1.9	1.9
63	Laos	76.9	1.8	3.8	5.5	7.5	7.5
64	Honduras	76.8	1.0	0.5	2.3	3.0	1.3
65	Colombia	76.6	0.9		2.3	3.6	5.9
66	Tajikistan	75.5	2.2	4.0	6.3	8.3	7.9
67	Jordan	75.4	0.5	1.4	3.3	2.6	1.5
68	India	75.3	0.9	1.0	2.6	4.3	4.0
69	Israel /  West Bank	75.1	1.4	3.4	3.8	4.6	4.3
70	Bolivia	75.0	2.1	0.2	1.8	3.5	3.1
71	Algeria	74.6	0.8	1.2	2.2	3.7	5.0
71	Senegal	74.6	2.6	5.0	7.7	9.0	8.3
73	Kyrgyzstan	73.9	2.3	4.7	6.4	7.2	8.3
74	Uzbekistan	73.1	2.6	6.0	8.4	10.4	12.2
75	Brazil	73.0	1.2	4.3	4.8	7.7	10.3
76	Russia	72.6	2.1	4.6	6.6	8.4	7.4
77	Benin	72.5	1.1	3.2	5.1	6.4	6.3
78	Azerbaijan	71.3	1.9	3.3	5.0	5.0	6.0
79	Micronesia	71.2	1.8	3.2	5.2	5.9	2.3
80	Morocco	71.2	1.8	2.8	3.7	3.0	3.4
80	Georgia	71.2	0.8	2.8	5.3	7.7	8.0
82	Thailand	70.8	2.3	4.2	5.4	8.0	8.3
83	São Tomé and Príncipe	70.3	0.8	1.8	1.8	2.6	3.4
84	Bosnia and Herzegovina	70.2	1.1	1.1	2.8	4.4	7.2
85	South Africa	70.1	1.0	2.8	2.2	0.2	3.1
86	China	69.9	1.2	2.5	4.8	5.0	6.6
86	Fiji	69.9	1.8	4.6	7.0	6.3	6.8
88	Bhutan	69.5	2.5	4.8	6.5	8.1	9.2
89	Ecuador	69.4	1.8	4.8	7.9	6.2	6.5
90	Gabon	69.1	1.4	3.4	4.7	2.9	2.1
90	Turkmenistan	69.1	2.3	3.5	5.3	6.9	8.3
92	Ukraine	69.0	2.0	3.6	5.0	6.5	7.3
93	El Salvador	68.9	0.9	2.3	4.2	3.6	2.5
94	Saudi Arabia	68.8	1.6	1.4	2.4	3.4	2.8
95	Tunisia	68.1	2.0	4.0	6.1	6.5	7.6
96	Indonesia	67.8	2.6	4.5	5.1	7.1	7.2
97	Peru	67.6	0.6	2.5	2.7	4.4	4.4
98	Mexico	67.2	2.5	4.3	7.1	3.2	4.7
99	Maldives	66.2	3.6	6.2	8.2	7.8	8.1
100	Serbia	66.1	1.9	2.0	3.9	5.9	7.7
101	Moldova	66.0	1.1	3.5	6.0	7.2	7.0
101	Guyana	66.0	2.2	4.4	5.3	4.9	4.5
103	Belarus	65.8	2.4	4.7	6.6	8.1	9.8
104	Paraguay	65.2	1.8	4.6	6.4	7.4	6.1
105	Namibia	65.1	1.3	3.7	5.3	6.0	5.7
106	Cape Verde	64.8	1.8	3.2	5.3	6.7	8.7
107	Dominican Republic	64.4	1.8	4.8	4.6	6.4	6.8
108	Armenia	64.2	2.5	5.3	6.8	5.4	5.5
108	Ghana	64.2	1.7	3.9	5.5	7.0	7.6
110	Bahrain	63.9	0.1	0.5	1.0	0.5	0.5
110	Vietnam	63.9	2.2	4.5	6.3	6.8	8.5
112	Samoa	63.3	0.9	2.2	3.8	4.3	4.9
113	Macedonia	62.1	2.5	2.7	4.0	4.9	2.4
114	Belize	60.8	1.7	2.9	4.7	5.2	4.5
115	Suriname	60.1	1.8	3.9	5.8	6.6	8.3
116	Jamaica	60.0	1.2	3.1	5.2	5.0	4.6
117	Kazakhstan	59.8	1.8	3.6	6.1	6.7	8.5
118	Cuba	59.2	1.6	3.7	5.4	7.1	8.2
119	Albania	58.8	0.1	1.3	1.7	2.4	3.1
120	Malaysia	57.6	2.9	6.0	7.8	8.5	8.3
121	Botswana	57.1	2.4	4.9	6.7	6.4	5.7
122	Brunei Darussalam	56.6	0.9	3.2	5.0	5.4	6.4
123	Cyprus	56.1	1.7	4.2	6.5	7.9	10.1
124	Montenegro	55.5	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	1.3
125	Grenada	55.2	2.4	4.7	6.3	7.8	8.3
126	Seychelles	54.7	0.5	2.1	4.7	5.5	7.4
127	Greece	52.1	1.8	3.2	5.4	3.8	0.5
127	Antigua and Barbuda	52.1	2.3	3.5	2.7	4.1	5.7
129	Trinidad and Tobago	51.9	1.1	2.7	4.8	5.9	6.8
129	Mongolia	51.9	2.2	3.0	4.8	4.7	5.1
131	Kuwait	50.9	2.3	5.0	7.6	7.6	6.6
132	Bahamas	49.9	1.1	0.1	2.5	1.7	1.6
133	Bulgaria	49.2	1.4	2.5	4.5	4.5	6.2
134	Oman	48.0	2.0	4.6	4.5	3.6	4.0
135	Hungary	47.6	2.0	2.6	4.4	5.1	1.5
136	Romania	46.7	1.1	2.7	4.2	6.2	7.5
137	Barbados	46.4	1.6	1.8	3.2	2.6	2.9
138	Croatia	46.1	1.4	2.6	4.5	6.3	4.9
138	Argentina	46.1	0.1		2.1	2.3	1.5
140	Panama	46.0	1.0	3.5	4.7	7.2	8.6
141	Qatar	43.7	1.7	4.4	0.3	1.4	2.6
142	Chile	42.5	3.6	1.8	1.4	0.6	1.0
143	Italy	42.4	1.4	1.4	2.8	0.7	0.8
144	Latvia	42.3	1.6	2.6	4.1	5.1	6.2
145	Poland	41.0	1.8	0.5	0.2	0.3	1.2
146	Spain	40.4	0.3	1.0	2.5	0.6	0.5
147	Costa Rica	40.2	1.8	3.0	3.9	4.9	6.6
148	Estonia	38.5	2.3	4.5	6.2	4.9	5.2
149	United States	38.3	0.3	0.6	2.7	4.3	2.9
149	United Kingdom	38.3	1.6	4.0	5.1	5.9	4.9
151	Slovak Republic	38.2	2.3	4.3	6.1	6.7	4.4
152	United Arab Emirates	38.1	2.0	4.7	5.6	6.4	8.1
153	Mauritius	37.2	1.7	3.3	4.5	6.0	8.0
154	Lithuania	36.5	1.6	2.9	5.2	5.9	6.5
155	Czech Republic	35.7	1.9	3.3	4.4	5.1	1.7
156	Malta	33.6	0.9	2.6	5.0	6.0	7.3
157	Uruguay	33.4	0.6	2.0	3.4	2.8	3.0
158	Japan	32.3	2.0	2.2	5.1	2.8	3.7
159	South Korea	32.0	1.7	3.7	6.1	4.1	4.3
160	France	30.5	1.5	1.7	3.0	4.0	3.2
161	Belgium	27.1	1.5	2.6	3.7	1.9	3.4
162	Singapore	26.3	1.8	4.1	6.2	6.6	8.1
163	Slovenia	25.8	2.2	4.5	6.6	8.1	5.7
164	Austria	24.1	0.9	2.1	3.6	3.4	1.7
165	Portugal	23.5	1.8	3.8	5.5	5.7	6.2
166	Germany	23.2	1.5	2.6	4.9	5.4	4.9
167	Netherlands	22.9	1.9	3.3	4.5	5.3	4.0
168	Ireland	19.9	0.7	0.8	2.4	2.6	4.7
169	Australia	19.7		1.1	2.6	2.8	4.6
170	Luxembourg	18.8	1.6	2.0	4.6	5.3	3.3
171	Canada	18.7	1.3	2.8	3.9	5.1	6.9
172	Sweden	18.2	2.1	2.6	3.9	4.4	2.0
173	New Zealand	17.9	2.2	3.0	4.7	3.4	4.7
174	Iceland	17.8	2.0	2.5	4.7	5.0	5.6
175	Denmark	17.2	2.3	2.6	4.3	4.3	4.2
176	Switzerland	17.1	1.6	2.1	4.0	4.7	5.2
177	Norway	16.2	1.8	2.1	4.3	5.0	4.7
178	Finland	14.6	2.3	3.3	4.1	4.2	3.1

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 2020". The Fund for Peace. 11 May 2020. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
5. "Fragile States Index and CAST Framework Methodology". The Fund for Peace.

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