List of countries by Fragile States Index

Countries according to the 2023 Fragile States Index

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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. 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.

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

Fund For Peace ranks (between 0 and 10) the following factors to determine the overall status of a country on the index.

• Cohesion
  • Security apparatus
  • Factionalized elites
  • Group grievance
• Economic
  • Economic decline and poverty
  • Uneven development
  • Human flight and brain drain
• Political
  • State legitimacy
  • Public services
  • Human rights and rule of law
• Social
  • Demographic pressures
  • Refugees and internally displaced persons
• Cross-cutting
  • External intervention

Fragile States Index 2024

The table below shows the FSI for 2024, with comparisons of each country's current score to previous years' indices. A higher score (with a maximum of 120) indicates a weaker, more vulnerable, or more fragile situation in the country.

Rank	Country	2024 score	Change from 2023	Change from 2022	Change from 2021	Change from 2020	Change from 2019
1	Somalia	111.3	0.6	1.4	0.4		1.4
2	Sudan	109.3	3.1	0.9	1.9	0.4	3.2
3	South Sudan	109.0	0.5	0.1	1.0	1.4	1.4
4	Syria	108.1	1.0	1.3	1.3		0.8
5	DR Congo	106.7	0.5	0.1	1.1	1.0	0.8
6	Yemen	106.6	2.3	2.8		0.7	1.1
7	Afghanistan	103.9	2.7	0.7	3.8	0.8	2.1
	Central African Republic	103.9	1.8	2.4	1.1	0.5	1.4
9	Haiti	103.5	0.6	3.2	2.2	0.2	1.6
10	Chad	102.7	1.9	1.1	0.1	0.6	2.1
11	Myanmar	100.0	0.2	0.2	6.2	0.2	0.3
12	Ethiopia	98.1	2.3	1.1	0.3	3.4	0.4
13	Palestine	97.8	9.9	2.3	0.4	n/a	n/a
14	Mali	97.3	2.2	0.9	2.0	0.6	1.5
15	Nigeria	96.6	1.4	0.8	0.8	0.7	1.2
16	Libya	96.5	0.4	1.8	2.7	1.8	3.0
17	Guinea	96.4	2.1	1.1	2.2	0.2	2.2
18	Zimbabwe	95.7	1.2	0.9	1.3	0.1	0.3
19	Niger	95.2	1.8	1.8	0.8	0.7	0.9
20	Cameroon	94.3	0.3	2.0	1.2	0.7	0.9
21	Burkina Faso	94.2	0.2	3.5	3.4	1.2	2.0
22	Ukraine	93.1	2.8	27.3	1.2	0.8	2.0
23	Lebanon	92.7	0.9	0.5	2.3	4.3	0.3
24	Burundi	92.6	1.6	1.2	1.7	0.8	0.3
25	Mozambique	92.5	1.5	0.3	0.4	2.2	3.0
26	Eritrea	92.1	2.4	1.4	1.1	1.2	0.6
27	Pakistan	91.7	1.8	0.2	0.8	1.6	2.1
28	Uganda	91.1	0.4	0.6	0.8	0.1	2.5
29	Congo	90.2	0.5	1.5	0.2	0.3	0.4
30	Venezuela	89.0	1.5	1.1	1.0	1.4	1.9
31	Iraq	88.6	2.8	2.4	2.4	0.3	3.2
32	Guinea Bissau	88.4	1.5	1.4	0.7	0.9	2.6
33	Sri Lanka	88.2	2.1	11.0	1.2	1.3	2.2
34	Mauritania	87.0		0.9	1.2	0.4	1.4
35	Liberia	86.9	2.0	0.7	1.3	0.5	0.2
36	Kenya	86.5	1.3	0.4	1.0	1.1	3.2
37	Bangladesh	85.9	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.7	2.0
38	Angola	85.6	1.3	1.2	0.9	1.7	0.5
39	Ivory Coast	85.3	1.8	2.5	1.1	1.0	2.4
40	North Korea	84.9	2.1	2.1	0.9	0.2	2.5
41	Turkey	84.0	2.8	3.1	1.6	0.6	1.2
42	Equatorial Guinea	83.7	0.7	0.3		1.1	0.4
43	Iran	82.9	2.5	1.3	0.4	1.1	0.4
44	Egypt	82.8	1.2	2.0	1.4	1.0	2.4
45	Sierra Leone	82.6	1.2	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.4
46	Rwanda	81.8	0.5	1.4	1.3	1.0	1.5
47	Comoros	81.7	0.5	0.1	0.2	1.3	0.5
48	Djibouti	81.6	0.6	0.9	1.1	0.3	2.4
	Russia	81.6	0.9	8.1	1.0	1.0	2.1
50	Zambia	81.2	0.6	1.8	1.3	0.4	1.2
51	Togo	81.1	1.0	1.5	1.5	0.7	1.6
52	Malawi	80.5	2.7	0.2	0.2	0.8	0.7
53	Madagascar	79.8	1.9	1.3	0.9		1.4
54	Papua New Guinea	78.8	0.7	1.4	1.4	1.4	0.8
55	Cambodia	78.6	1.7	0.2	0.1	0.3	2.2
56	Honduras	78.1	1.5	0.9	0.7	2.6	1.0
57	Nepal	78.0	2.2	0.4	1.6	0.4	2.1
58	Eswatini	77.6	1.5	1.3	2.1	0.5	2.3
	Solomon Islands	77.6	2.0	0.8	1.1	0.4	2.2
60	Nicaragua	76.7	1.0		0.6		1.0
61	Gambia	76.1		2.5	1.9	1.7	1.7
62	Tanzania	75.7	0.9	1.6	1.1	1.2	2.0
63	Colombia	75.6	2.5	0.3	0.9	2.7	0.9
64	Philippines	75.1	2.7	2.7	1.9	1.4	2.1
65	Guatemala	74.9	2.4	0.2	1.9	0.2	2.2
	Kyrgyzstan	74.9	0.7	1.5	0.7	2.5	2.3
67	East Timor	74.8	2.7	1.8	1.6	1.8	2.8
68	Lesotho	74.6	1.7	1.1	0.5	0.4	1.4
69	Jordan	74.3	1.4	0.9	0.2	1.4	0.5
70	Senegal	74.2	2.7	0.6	1.3	1.2	2.6
71	Laos	73.8	0.9	0.8	0.5	0.9	1.8
72	Azerbaijan	72.8	0.1	0.4	2.0	3.8	1.9
	Tajikistan	72.8	1.4	0.8	0.1	0.4	2.2
74	Benin	72.5	0.8	0.8	0.3	0.3	1.1
75	India	72.3	1.8	1.2	1.7	1.7	0.9
76	Peru	72.0	1.1	3.3	1.6	3.8	0.6
77	Bosnia-Herzegovina	71.0	1.3	0.7	0.1	2.7	1.1
78	Brazil	70.3	4.2	0.6	1.9	2.8	1.2
79	Gabon	70.2	4.7	1.2	0.7	1.7	1.4
80	South Africa	69.6	2.4		2.0	0.1	1.0
81	Bolivia	70.7	2.7	4.2	4.3	2.2	4.5
82	Fiji	70.2	1.3	0.2	0.3	1.5	4.3
83	Algeria	70.0	2.2	3.6	4.6	5.4	5.8
84	Belarus	69.9	1.2	1.9	4.1	1.7	0.6
85	Mexico	69.8	0.5	0.1	2.6	0.1	1.7
86	São Tomé and Príncipe	69.7	0.7	1.8	0.6	1.4	2.4
87	Ecuador	69.4	0.3	1.8		1.8	4.8
88	El Salvador	69.3	1.5	2.3	0.4	0.5	1.9
	F.S. Micronesia	69.3	1.7	2.4	1.9	3.7	5.1
90	Morocco	68.2	1.9	3.3	3.0	4.8	5.8
91	Thailand	68.0	2.0	2.9	2.8	5.1	7.0
92	Serbia	67.9	0.1	0.5	1.8	0.1	0.2
93	Armenia	67.5	0.5	2.3	3.3	0.8	2.0
94	Moldova	67.4	2.9	0.4	1.4	0.3	2.1
95	Uzbekistan	66.8	2.8	5.2	6.3	8.9	12.3
96	Bhutan	66.4	1.0	1.9	3.1	5.6	7.9
	Tunisia	66.4	1.8	2.8	1.7	3.7	5.7
98	Indonesia	65.6	1.0	2.0	2.2	4.8	6.7
99	Gabon	65.5	1.2	1.9	3.6	5.0	7.0
100	Saudi Arabia	65.3	2.2	4.4	3.5	5.1	4.9
101	Bahrain	65.1	1.5	1.6	1.2	1.3	0.7
	China	65.1	1.8	3.8	4.8	6.0	7.3
	Samoa	65.1	0.3	0.9	1.8	0.9	0.4
104	Turkmenistan	64.5	2.0	3.7	4.6	6.9	8.1
105	Paraguay	63.7	1.7	2.7	1.5	3.3	6.1
106	Maldives	62.9	1.6	4.7	3.3	6.9	9.5
107	Ghana	62.3	0.7	1.6	1.9	3.6	5.8
108	Jamaica	61.9	0.2	0.7	1.9	0.7	1.2
109	Guyana	61.6	2.6	4.5	4.4	6.6	8.8
110	Dominican Republic	60.8	2.0	3.9	3.6	5.4	8.4
111	Kazakhstan	60.6	1.1	0.6	0.8	1.0	2.8
112	Namibia	60.3	2.6	4.0	4.8	6.1	8.5
	North Macedonia	60.3	2.3	4.2	1.8	4.3	4.5
114	Cape Verde	60.1	1.3	4.1	4.7	6.5	7.9
115	Belize	59.8	2.3	4.4	1.0	2.7	3.9
116	Suriname	59.7	1.1	1.8	0.4	2.2	4.3
117	Cuba	59.5	0.6		0.3	1.3	3.4
118	Vietnam	58.3	2.6	5.0	5.6	7.8	10.1
119	Montenegro	58.0	0.1	0.5	2.5	2.7	2.7
120	Cyprus	57.0	0.1	0.4	0.9	0.8	3.3
121	Albania	56.8	0.1	2.2	2.0	2.1	3.3
122	Botswana	55.3	0.8	1.7	1.8	4.2	6.7
123	Greece	55.1	0.7	0.6	3.0	1.2	0.2
124	Malaysia	55.0	1.4	1.9	2.6	5.5	8.6
125	Brunei	54.7	0.4	1.6	1.9	2.8	5.1
126	Antigua and Barbuda	53.8	0.4	1.1	1.7	0.6	1.8
127	Grenada	53.7	0.6	2.4	1.5	3.9	6.2
128	Seychelles	53.3	0.9	3.0	1.4	1.9	3.5
129	Romania	53.0	2.2	2.0	6.3	5.2	3.6
130	Trinidad and Tobago	52.9	0.5		1.0	0.1	1.7
131	Bulgaria	51.8	0.2	0.2	2.6	1.2	0.1
132	Mongolia	51.3	0.3	1.0	0.6	2.8	3.6
133	Kuwait	51.2	1.0	1.7	0.3	2.0	4.7
134	Bahamas	49.2	1.4	3.2	0.7	0.4	0.8
135	Hungary	48.8	2.0	2.3	1.2	0.8	1.4
136	Croatia	48.7	0.6	1.1	2.6	1.2
	Oman	48.7	0.8	1.7	0.7	1.3	3.9
	Panama	48.7	1.2		2.7	1.7	0.8
139	Argentina	46.4	1.5	3.7	0.3	0.4	0.3
140	Barbados	45.4	0.5	1.6	1.0	2.6	2.8
141	United States	45.3	1.3	0.7	7.0	7.3	7.6
142	Poland	45.2	3.0	2.1	4.2	2.4	3.7
143	Israel	44.1	1.5	1.1	n/a	n/a	n/a
144	Spain	43.5	0.9	1.3	3.1	2.8	2.1
145	Latvia	43.3	0.5	0.7	1.0	0.6	1.6
146	Italy	42.6	0.8	2.6	0.2	1.2	1.2
147	Chile	42.2	1.0	1.9	0.3	3.3	1.5
148	United Kingdom	41.9	1.3	0.4	3.6	5.2	7.6
149	Qatar	40.5	1.8	3.6	3.2	4.9	7.6
150	Costa Rica	40.4	0.6	2.1	0.2	1.6	2.8
151	Czech Republic	40.2	0.3	0.9	4.5	2.6	1.2
152	Lithuania	39.4	0.8	0.7	2.9	1.3
153	Estonia	38.6	0.9	0.9	0.1	2.2	4.4
154	Mauritius	38.0	0.1	0.1	0.8	0.9	2.5
155	Slovakia	37.8	0.7	1.2	0.4	2.7	4.7
156	United Arab Emirates	37.0	2.1	3.3	1.1	3.1	5.8
157	Uruguay	34.4	0.8	1.5	1.0	0.4	1.0
158	Malta	33.0	1.7	3.2	0.6	1.5	3.2
159	South Korea	31.5	1.2	1.0	0.5	2.2	4.2
160	Belgium	31.4	0.5	0.4	4.3	2.8	1.7
161	Japan	30.5	0.5	1.7	1.8	3.8	4.0
162	France	28.8	2.1	3.7	1.7	3.2	3.4
163	Slovenia	27.3	0.4	0.9	1.5	0.7	3.0
164	Portugal	25.7	1.8	1.1	2.2	0.4	1.6
165	Singapore	25.5	0.3	1.1	0.8	2.6	4.9
166	Germany	24.6	1.0	0.2	1.4	0.1	1.2
167	Austria	24.4	1.0	1.7	0.3	0.6	1.8
168	Australia	22.0	0.7	0.2	2.3	2.3	1.2
169	Netherlands	21.0	1.1	3.1	1.9	3.8	5.2
170	Sweden	20.6	0.3	0.8	2.4	0.3	0.2
171	Ireland	19.5	1.3	2.7	0.4	1.1	1.2
	Luxembourg	19.5	0.5	1.6	0.7	0.9	1.3
173	Canada	18.9	1.2	2.8	0.2	1.1	2.6
174	Denmark	17.9	0.2	0.9	0.7	1.6	1.9
175	Switzerland	17.8	1.1	2.1	0.7	0.9	1.4
176	New Zealand	16.7	0.8	1.7	1.2	3.4	4.2
177	Finland	16.0	0.9	0.2	1.4	0.9	1.9
178	Iceland	15.7	1.4	2.3	2.1	4.1	4.6
179	Norway	14.5	1.1	2.1	1.7	3.5	3.8

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