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We are pleased to present the sixth annual Failed States Index. The FSI focuses on the indicators of risk and is based on thousands of articles and reports that are processed by our CAST Software from electronically available sources. To learn more, please see the FAQs.

We encourage others to utilize the Failed States Index to develop ideas for promoting greater stability worldwide. We hope the Index will spur conversations, encourage debate, and most of all help guide strategies for sustainable security.

Social Indicators
I-1. Mounting Demographic Pressures
I-2. Massive Movement of Refugees or Internally Displaced Persons creating
Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
I-3. Legacy of Vengeance-Seeking Group Grievance or Group Paranoia
I-4. Chronic and Sustained Human Flight

Economic Indicators
I-5. Uneven Economic Development along Group Lines
I-6. Sharp and/or Severe Economic Decline

Political Indicators
I-7. Criminalization and/or Delegitimization of the State
I-8. Progressive Deterioration of Public Services
I-9. Suspension or Arbitrary Application of the Rule of Law and Widespread
Violation of Human Rights
I-10. Security Apparatus Operates as a "State Within a State"
I-11. Rise of Factionalized Elites
I-12. Intervention of Other States or External Political Actors Top 10
1º Norway
2º Finland
3º Sweden
4º Switzerland
5º Ireland
6º Denmark
7º New Zealand
8º Australia
9º Netherlands
10º Austria

Last 10
168º Pakistan
169º Guinea
170º Central African R.
171º Afghanistan
172º Iraq
173º D.R.Congo
174º Chad
175º Sudan
176º Zimbabwe
177º Somalia

Top 3 by Continent

EUROPE
1º Norway
2º Finland
3º Sweden

AMERICAS
12º Canada
19º USA
23º Chile

ASIA
14º Japan
18º Singapore
25º South Korea

AFRICA
54º Ghana
56º South Africa
57º Tunisia

OCEANIA
7º New Zeland
8º Australia
70º Samoa

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