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Fragility ranking of SEE countries (out of 170)

  1. DEMOGRAPHIC PRESSURES
  2. REFUGEE AND IDPS GROUP
  3. GRIEVANCE
  4. HUMAN FLIGHT
  5. UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT
  6. POVERTY AND ECONOMIC DECLINE
  7. LEGITIMACY OF THE STATE PUBLIC SERVICES
  8. HUMAN RIGHTS
  9. SECURITY APPARATUS
  10. FACTIONALIZED ELITES
  11. EXTERNAL INTERVENTION

    Defining the Indicators

    DEMOGRAPHIC PRESSURES: Concerns related to population, such as food scarcity, population growth, and mortality rates; REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS: Concerns associated with population displacement and refugees; GROUP GRIEVANCE:Tensions and violence among groups within the state; HUMAN FLIGHT AND BRAIN DRAIN: Levels of migration out of the country including, but not limited to, the flight of refugees and educated individuals; UNEVEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Disparities in development among different ethnic and religious groups and among regions within the state; POVERTY AND ECONOMIC DECLINE:Poverty rates and economic performance; STATE LEGITIMACY:Corruption and other measures of democratic capacity, such as government performance and electoral process; PUBLIC SERVICES:Provision of education, health care, sanitation, and other services;HUMAN RIGHTS AND RULE OF LAW: The protection and promotion of human rights; SECURITY APPARATUS: Internal conflict and the proliferation of nonstate armed groups; FACTIONALIZED ELITES:Conflict and competition among local and national leaders;EXTERNAL INTERVENTION: Levels of foreign assistance as well as imposed interventions, such as sanctions or military invasion.

    Grayed nations are not ranked by the Fund for Peace. No FSI data was available for the following countries until 2007: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Barbados, Beliza, Brunei, Cape Verde, Comoros, Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Fiji, Grenada, Guyana, Iceland, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Maldives, Malta, Micronesia, Montenegro, Qatar, Samoa, Sao Tome, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Swaziland, East Timor, Trinidad, United Arab Emirates. The nation of South Sudan was not formed until 2011.

     

     

     

    TABLE

     

    Rank                  Name                  1                2                 3                 4                  5                 6                 7                 8                  9                10                     

    79

    Turkey

    77.3

    5.1

    8.8

    9.5

    3.6

    5.9

    4.8

    6.6

    4.6

    7.4

         

    88

    Bosnia

    74.6

    4.0

    7.8

    7.0

    5.2

    5.3

    5.7

    6.7

    3.8

    6.1

         

    98

    Serbia

    72.0

    4.5

    8.6

    7.8

    5.0

    5.0

    6.6

    5.4

    4.4

    4.6

         

    111

    Macedonia

    67.0

    3.0

    7.0

    7.1

    5.2

    5.4

    6.0

    6.0

    4.1

    4.0

         

    124

    Albania

    61.2

    4.2

    3.3

    4.7

    7.6

    3.8

    5.5

    5.9

    4.2

    5.0

         

    130

    Greece

    55.9

    3.9

    5.0

    5.1

    3.5

    3.9

    7.0

    6.2

    4.0

    3.2

         

    131

    Montenegro

    55.2

    3.0

    4.8

    7.6

    3.7

    2.6

    4.9

    4.8

    3.3

    4.1

         
                                 

     

    132

     

    Bulgaria

     

    53.7

     

    3.9

     

    4.0

     

    5.3

     

    4.3

     

    4.6

     

    5.9

     

    4.7

     

    3.9

     

    3.5

         

    134

    Romania

    52.9

    3.4

    3.0

    7.0

    4.2

    4.4

    4.9

    5.7

    4.0

    3.9

         

     

    136

     

    Croatia

     

    52.4

     

    3.3

     

    7.5

     

    6.0

     

    4.2

     

    3.5

     

    5.5

     

    3.1

     

    2.6

     

    3.8

         

    160

    Slovenia

    33.9

    2.5

    4.5

    4.2

    2.8

    3.6

    4.0

    2.9

    1.7

    1.7

         

     

 

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