List of countries by Fragile States Index
This article consists of a list of countries by order of appearance in the Fragile States Index of the American 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 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 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 | Change from 2018 |
| 1 |  SomaliaDecreasePositiveIncreaseNegativeIncreaseNegativeIncreaseNegativeDecreasePositiveDecreasePositive |