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The table below shows the FSI for 2024, [5] with comparisons of each country's current score to previous years' indices. [6] A higher score (with a maximum of 120) indicates a weaker, more vulnerable, or more fragile situation in the country. ^ a b Prior to the 2021 index, Israel and Palestine (West Bank) were scored as a single state.
The Fragile States Index (FSI; formerly the Failed States Index) is an annual report mainly published and supported by the United States think tank the Fund for Peace. The FSI is also published by the American magazine Foreign Policy from 2005 to 2018, then by The New Humanitarian since 2019. [1] The list aims to assess states' vulnerability to ...
Common characteristics of a failed state include a government incapable of tax collection, law enforcement, security assurance, territorial control, political or civil office staffing, and infrastructure maintenance. [2] When this happens, widespread corruption and criminality, the intervention of state and non-state actors, the appearance of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 October 2024. This article is a list of freedom indices produced by several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world, according to their own various definitions of the term, and rank countries as being free, partly free, or using various ...
A fragile state or weak state is a country characterized by weak state capacity or weak state legitimacy leaving citizens vulnerable to a range of shocks. The World Bank, for example, deems a country to be ‘fragile’ if it (a) is eligible for assistance (i.e., a grant) from the International Development Association (IDA), (b) has had a UN peacekeeping mission in the last three years, and (c ...
The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual report published by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal in the United States. Countries and regions are assessed as free, mostly free, moderately free, mostly unfree, or repressed. [3] These lists are from private Western institutions and not from the UN or IMF.
fragilestatesindex.org. The Fund for Peace is an American non-profit, non-governmental research and educational institution. Founded in 1957, FFP "works to prevent violent conflict and promote sustainable security." [1] The Fund for Peace works towards sustainable security and development in failed states by focusing on conflict assessment and ...
Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Australia-based NGO Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. [2] The GPI ranks 163 independent states and territories (collectively accounting for 99.7 per cent of the world's population) according to their levels of ...