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.^[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]

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.^[4]

Fragile States Index 2023

The table below shows the FSI for 2023,^[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.

Rank	Country	2023 score	Change from 2022	Change from 2021	Change from 2020	Change from 2019	Change from 2018
1	Somalia	111.9	1.4	1.0	1.0	0.4	1.3
2	Yemen	108.9	2.8	2.8	3.5	4.6	3.8
3	South Sudan	108.5	0.1	0.9	2.3	3.7	4.9
4	DR Congo	107.2	0.1	1.2	2.2	3.0	3.5
5	Syria	107.1	1.3	3.6	3.6	4.4	4.3
6	Afghanistan	106.6	0.7	4.5	3.7	1.6
7	Sudan	106.2	0.9	1.0	1.4	1.8	2.5
8	Central African Republic	105.7	2.4	1.3	1.8	3.2	5.4
9	Chad	104.6	1.1	1.2	1.8	3.9	3.7
10	Haiti	102.9	3.2	5.4	5.2	3.6	0.9
11	Ethiopia	100.4	1.1	1.4	5.8	6.2	0.8
12	Myanmar	100.2	0.2	6.4	6.2	5.9	4.1
13	Mali	99.5	0.9	2.9	3.5	5.0	5.9
14	Guinea	98.5	1.1	1.1	1.3	0.9	3.1
15	Nigeria	98.0	0.8		0.7	0.5	1.9
16	Zimbabwe	96.9	0.9	2.2	2.3	2.6	5.4
17	Libya	96.1	1.8	0.9	0.9	3.9	1.5
18	Ukraine	95.9	27.3	26.1	26.9	24.9	23.3
19	Eritrea	94.5	1.4	2.5	1.3	1.9	2.7
20	Burundi	94.2	1.2	2.9	3.7	4.0	3.2
21	Burkina Faso	94.0	3.5	6.9	8.1	10.1	7.5
	Cameroon	94.0	2.0	3.2	3.9	3.0	1.3
	Mozambique	94.0	0.3	0.1	2.3	5.3	5.3
24	Niger	93.4	1.8	2.6	1.9	2.8	2.8
25	Lebanon	91.8	0.5	2.8	7.1	6.8	5.0
26	Uganda	91.5	0.6	1.4	1.3	3.8	3.6
27	Iraq	91.4	2.4	4.8	4.5	7.7	10.8
28	Congo	90.7	1.5	1.7	1.4	1.8	2.4
29	Venezuela	90.5	1.1	2.1	0.7	1.2	4.3
30	Sri Lanka	90.3	11.0	9.8	8.5	6.3	5.4
31	Guinea-Bissau	89.9	1.4	2.1	3.0	5.6	8.2
	Pakistan	89.9	0.2	0.6	2.2	4.3	6.4
33	Liberia	88.9	0.7	0.6	1.1	1.3	3.7
34	Palestine[a]	87.9	2.3	1.9	n/a	n/a	n/a
35	Kenya	87.8	0.4	1.4	2.5	5.7	9.6
36	Ivory Coast	87.1	2.5	3.6	2.6	5.0	7.5
37	Mauritania	87.0	0.9	2.1	1.7	3.1	5.2
	North Korea	87.0	2.1	3.0	3.2	5.7	6.2
39	Angola	86.9	1.2	2.1	0.4	0.9	2.5
40	Iran	85.4	1.3	0.9	2.0	2.4	1.1
41	Bangladesh	85.2	0.7	0.2	0.5	2.5	5.1
42	Equatorial Guinea	84.4	0.3	0.3	1.4	1.8	1.0
43	Malawi	83.2	0.2		0.8	0.1	2.3
44	Rwanda	82.3	1.4	2.7	3.7	5.2	7.0
45	Comoros	82.2	0.1	0.3	1.0	0.5	0.4
	Djibouti	82.2	0.9	0.2	0.5	2.9	4.9
47	Togo	82.1	1.5	3.0	3.7	5.3	3.1
48	Zambia	81.8	1.8	3.1	2.7	3.9	5.4
49	Madagascar	81.7	1.3	2.2	2.2	0.8	1.9
50	Egypt	81.6	2.0	3.4	4.4	6.8	7.1
51	Sierra Leone	81.4	1.0	2.0	3.0	5.4	7.7
52	Turkey	81.2	3.1	1.5	2.1	0.9	1.0
53	Russia	80.7	8.1	7.1	8.1	6.0	3.5
54	Cambodia	80.3	0.2	0.3		2.2	3.7
55	Nepal	80.2	0.4	2.0	2.4	4.5	7.7
56	Honduras	79.6	0.9	0.2	2.8	1.8	2.3
	Solomon Islands	79.6	0.8	0.3	0.1	2.3	3.5
58	Eswatini	79.1	1.3	3.4	3.9	6.2	8.4
59	Colombia	78.1	0.3	1.2	1.5	2.4	1.5
	Papua New Guinea	78.1	1.4	2.8	4.2	5.0	6.7
61	Philippines	77.8	2.7	4.6	3.2	5.3	7.7
62	Nicaragua	77.7		0.6	0.6	0.4	2.4
63	East Timor	77.5	1.8	3.4	5.2	8.0	10.8
64	Guatemala	77.3	0.2	2.1	1.9	4.1	4.5
65	Tanzania	76.6	1.6	2.7	1.5	3.5	2.8
66	Lesotho	76.3	1.1	1.6	2.0	3.4	3.8
67	Gambia	76.1	2.5	4.4	6.1	7.8	11.0
68	Jordan	75.7	0.9	1.1	0.3	0.2	1.1
69	Kyrgyzstan	75.6	1.5	0.8	1.7	0.6	3.0
70	Laos	74.7	0.8	1.3	2.2	4.0	6.0
71	Brazil	74.5	0.6	1.3	1.5	2.7	5.8
72	Tajikistan	74.2	0.8	0.9	1.3	3.5	5.3
73	India	74.1	1.2	2.9	1.2	0.3	2.2
74	Benin	73.3	0.8	0.5	0.8	0.3	2.4
75	Peru	73.1	3.3	1.7	5.5	4.9	3.0
76	Azerbaijan	72.7	0.4	2.4	1.4	0.5	1.9
77	Bosnia-Herzegovina	72.3	0.7	0.6	2.1	1.0	1.0
78	South Africa	72.0		2.0	1.9	0.9	0.9
79	Georgia	71.9	0.1	0.7	0.7	0.1	2.1
80	Senegal	71.5	0.6	1.9	3.1	5.7	8.1
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[a]	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