'06 Failed Nations list

[Neue Regel]

An interesting breakdown of world nations by both "The Fund for Peace" http://www.fundforpeace.org/ and "Foreign Policy" http://www.foreignpolicy.com/ in a joint project.

http://www.fundforpeace.org/programs/fsi/fsindex.php

The Twelve Indicators:
I 1 - Mounting Demographic Pressures I 2 - Massive Movement of Refugees and IDPs I 3 - Legacy of Vengeance - Seeking Group Grievance I 4 - Chronic and Sustained Human Flight I 5 - Uneven Economic Development along Group Lines I 6 - Sharp and/or Severe Economic Decline							I 7 - Criminalization or Delegitimization of the State I 8 - Progressive Deterioration of Public Services I 9 - Widespread Violation of Human Rights I 10 - Security Apparatus as "State within a State" I 11 - Rise of Factionalized Elites I 12 - Intervention of Other States or External Actors
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Rank	Country	I 1	I 2	I 3	I 4	I 5	I 6	I 7	I 8	I 9	I 10	I 11	I 12	Total
1	Sudan	9.6	9.7	9.7	9.1	9.2	7.5	9.5	9.5	9.8	9.8	9.1	9.8	112.3
2	DRC	9.5	9.5	9.1	8	9	8.1	9	9	9.5	9.8	9.6	10	110.1
3	Cote d'Ivoire	8.8	7.6	9.8	8.5	8	9	10	8.5	9.4	9.8	9.8	10	109.2
4	Iraq	8.9	8.3	9.8	9.1	8.7	8.2	8.5	8.3	9.7	9.8	9.7	10	109
5	Zimbabwe	9.7	8.9	8.5	9	9.2	9.8	8.9	9.5	9.5	9.4	8.5	8	108.9
6	Chad	9	9	8.5	8	9	7.9	9.5	9	9.1	9.4	9.5	8	105.9
7	Somalia	9	8.1	8	7	7.5	8.5	10	10	9.5	10	9.8	8.5	105.9
8	Haiti	8.8	5	8.8	8	8.3	8.4	9.4	9.3	9.6	9.4	9.6	10	104.6
9	Pakistan	9.3	9.3	8.6	8.1	8.9	7	8.5	7.5	8.5	9.1	9.1	9.2	103.1
10	Afghanistan	7.9	9.6	9.1	7	8	7.5	8.3	8	8.2	8.2	8	10	99.8
11	Guinea	7.5	7.2	8.1	8.4	8	8	9.1	9	8.1	8.1	9	8.5	99
12	Liberia	8	9.3	7	7.1	8.6	8.9	7.8	9	7.2	7.3	8.8	10	99
13	Central African Republic	9	7.7	8.8	5.5	8.5	8.1	9	8	7.5	8.9	8	8.5	97.5
14	North Korea	8	6	7.2	5	9	9.5	9.8	9.5	9.5	8.3	8	7.5	97.3
15	Burundi	9	9.1	7	6.7	8.8	7.8	7.2	8.5	7.5	7.3	7.8	10	96.7
16	Yemen	7.8	6.7	7	8.2	9	7.8	8.8	8.2	7.2	9	9.4	7.5	96.6
17	Sierra Leone	8.5	7.9	7.1	8.9	8.7	9	8	8	7	7	7.7	8.8	96.6
18	Burma/Myanmar	8.9	8.8	9	6	9	7.1	9.2	8.2	9.8	9	8	3.5	96.5
19	Bangladesh	9	5.8	9.5	8.5	9	7	9	7.5	7.8	8.3	8.9	6	96.3
20	Nepal	8.5	4.8	9.2	6	9.2	8.5	9.2	6.2	9.1	9	9	6.7	95.4
21	Uganda	8	9.2	7.8	5.7	8.4	7.5	8	8	8	8.5	7.9	7.5	94.5
22	Nigeria	8	5.9	9.1	8.5	9	5.4	9	8.3	7.1	9.2	9	5.9	94.4
23	Uzbekistan	7.7	5.8	7.5	7.5	8.1	7	9.3	7	9.3	9.1	9.1	7	94.4
24	Rwanda	9.5	7	9	8.2	7.2	8	8.7	6.9	7.7	5	8.9	6.8	92.9
25	Sri Lanka	8	8.2	9.1	6.7	8	5.7	8.6	7	7.2	8.5	8.9	6.5	92.4
26	Ethiopia	9	7.6	7	7.5	8.5	8	7.6	6.2	8	7.5	8.7	6.3	91.9
27	Colombia	7	9.1	7.4	8.5	8.5	3.2	8.7	6.5	7.6	9	9.2	7.1	91.8
28	Kyrgyzstan	8	6.6	7	7.5	8	7.5	8.3	7.3	7.9	8.3	7.9	6	90.3
29	Malawi	9	6	6	7	8.8	8.8	8	9	8	5.5	6.7	7	89.8
30	Burkina Faso	9	5.9	6.5	6.6	8.8	8.2	7.8	8.4	6.5	7.6	7.7	6.7	89.7
31	Egypt	8	6	8.5	6	8	7	9	7.3	8	6.5	7.7	7.5	89.5
32	Indonesia	7.5	8.2	6.3	8.3	8	6.8	6.7	7.2	7.5	7.5	7.9	7.3	89.2
33	Syria	7	7.1	8	6.8	8.9	6.5	9	5.5	9	7.5	7.1	6.2	88.6
34	Kenya	9	7.1	6.7	8	8	6.8	7.3	7.2	6.9	7	7.6	7	88.6
35	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.5	8.5	8.6	6	7.3	6.2	8.1	5.8	5.3	7.5	8.7	10	88.5
36	Cameroon	6.5	6.8	6.5	8	8.7	6	8.5	8	7.2	7.6	7.9	6.7	88.4
37	Angola	8	8.5	6.3	5	9	4.9	8.8	7.6	7.8	6.8	8	7.6	88.3
38	Togo	7	5.8	6	6.5	7.5	8	8.7	8.1	8.1	8.1	7.8	6.7	88.3
39	Bhutan	6	8.1	7	6.7	9	8	8.4	6	8.6	5	8.4	6.7	87.9
40	Laos	8	5.9	6.3	6.6	5.9	6.5	7.9	8	8.2	9	8.9	6.7	87.9
41	Mauritania	9	5.9	8.5	5	7	7.8	7.1	8.2	7.1	7.6	7.9	6.7	87.8
42	Tajikistan	7	6.6	6.2	6.5	7.4	6.8	8.9	7.5	8.6	7.5	8.7	6	87.7
43	Russia	8	7.2	8	7	8	3.7	8.2	6.9	9.1	7.5	9	4.5	87.1
44	Niger	9.4	4.3	8.5	6	7.2	9	7.9	8.5	6.5	6.7	6	7	87
45	Turkmenistan	7	4.2	5.2	6	7.2	8	9.1	7.2	9.7	8.5	8	6	86.1
46	Guinea-Bissau	7	4.9	5.5	7	9.3	7.4	7.8	8	7.9	7.5	6.5	6.6	85.4
47	Cambodia	7.5	6.5	7	8	7.2	6	7.8	7.5	6.9	6.7	7.5	6.4	85
48	Dominican Republic	7.8	7	6.5	8.5	8	6	6.2	8	7.1	7	7.4	5.5	85
49	Papua New Guinea	8	2.5	8	8	9	7	7.8	8	6.1	7	6.7	6.5	84.6
50	Belarus	9	5.1	5.5	3.5	8.5	6.3	9	7.5	7.3	6.8	8	8	84.5
51	Guatemala	8.7	6	7.1	6.7	8	7.1	7.5	7.1	7.1	7.5	6	5.5	84.3
52	Equatorial Guinea	7	2	6.7	7.5	9	4	9	8	8.5	8.3	8	6	84
53	Iran	6.5	8.7	6.9	5	7.5	3	8.1	6.1	9.1	8	8.8	6.3	84
54	Eritrea	8	7.2	5.4	6	6	8	8	7.3	6.8	7.2	7.5	6.5	83.9
55	Serbia and Montenegro	5.7	8.5	8.6	5.5	8	6.5	7.8	5	5.6	6.5	8.6	7.5	83.8
56	Bolivia	7.5	4	7	7	8.8	6.2	7	7.8	6.7	6.5	8.4	6	82.9
57	China	8.5	5.1	8	6.6	9.2	4.5	8.5	7.3	9	5.5	8	2.3	82.5
58	Moldova	7	4.7	7.3	8	7.5	7.5	7.4	7	6.8	5.5	6.8	7	82.5
59	Nicaragua	6.5	5.5	6.4	7.1	9	8.5	7.3	7.2	5.7	6.5	7	5.7	82.4
60	Georgia	6	6.8	7.4	6.1	7	5.5	7.7	6.3	5.6	8.1	7.1	8.6	82.2
61	Azerbaijan	6	8.1	7.3	5	7.5	5.9	8.1	6.5	6	7	7.5	7	81.9
62	Cuba	7.5	4.7	5.5	6	7.9	6.5	7.8	4	8.3	8	8	7.7	81.9
63	Ecuador	6	5.6	6.8	7.1	8	5.2	8.3	7.4	6.7	6.8	7.8	5.5	81.2
64	Venezuela	7.5	4.8	6.8	7	8	4	7.5	7	7.8	7.5	7.3	6	81.2
65	Lebanon	6.8	4.3	7.8	7	6.8	5.3	6.4	5	6.8	7.5	8.3	8.5	80.5
66	Zambia	9.2	5.2	5.2	6.7	7.3	7.6	7.5	7.8	5.8	6	5.2	6.1	79.6
67	Israel	7	8.5	9	3.5	7	3.8	7.3	7	7	4.8	7.5	7	79.4
68	Philippines	7	5.5	7.2	5.7	7.5	5.3	7.8	6	6.1	7	7.2	6.9	79.2
69	Peru	6.5	4.6	7	7.6	8	5.4	6.8	6.4	6.8	8	7.1	5	79.2
70	Vietnam	7	6.5	5.3	7	6.2	5.6	7	6.6	7	7.5	7	5.9	78.6
71	Tanzania	7	6.8	6	6	7	7	6.5	7.8	6	6	5.2	7	78.3
72	Algeria	6	6.6	7.1	5.6	7.4	3.5	7.5	7.6	7.5	6.8	6.4	5.8	77.8
73	Saudi Arabia	6	6.9	7.9	3.5	7	2	8.5	4.1	8.5	7.8	7.5	7.5	77.2
74	Jordan	6	6.8	6	5	7.6	6.5	6.8	5.8	6.1	6.8	6.6	7	77
75	Honduras	8.8	2.1	5.3	6	9	7.6	7.5	6.9	5.6	6	6.4	5.5	76.7
76	Morocco	6.5	8	6.9	6.2	7	6.5	8	5.7	6.6	5.6	5.5	4	76.5
77	El Salvador	8.5	6.1	6	7	7	5	7	7.4	6.7	6	3.9	5.5	76.1
78	Macedonia	5.7	5.1	7.1	7	7.5	6	7.2	5.6	5.3	6.1	6.2	6.3	75.1
79	Thailand	7.5	5.7	8.1	4.3	7.5	2	6.8	6	6.5	6.8	7.2	6.5	74.9
80	Mozambique	7	2	4.5	8.1	7.1	7	7.4	8	6.7	5.5	5.5	6	74.8
81	Mali	8.5	4.2	6	8	6.8	8.5	4.6	8.6	4.7	4.5	3.5	6.7	74.6
82	Turkey	7.2	6.1	7.3	5	8.6	4.1	6.1	5.7	5	6.4	6.9	6	74.4
83	Gambia, The	6	5	4	6	7	8.1	7.5	6.5	6.6	5.5	5.8	6	74
84	Gabon	6	5.4	3	6	7.9	5	7.9	7.5	6.2	5.5	7.5	5.7	73.6
85	Mexico	7.2	4.3	6.1	7	8.3	6.3	5.9	6	5.1	6	4.7	6.2	73.1
86	Ukraine	7	3.8	7.2	7.5	7	4.5	7	5.5	5.9	3	7.5	7	72.9
87	Paraguay	5	1.5	6.2	6	7.5	6.6	8	6.8	8	4.5	7.5	4.4	72
88	Kazakhstan	5	2.9	5.1	4	6.2	6.5	7.5	6.7	7	6.7	7.7	6.6	71.9
89	Armenia	6	7.1	5	7	6	5.1	7	6.5	6	4.5	5.8	5.5	71.5
90	Benin	6	5.1	4	6.9	7.3	6.5	6.5	7.8	4.8	5.5	3.8	6.7	70.9
91	Namibia	5.7	4.9	5.5	8	8	5.5	4.5	7.8	5.8	5.5	3.5	6	70.7
92	Cyprus	5	3.6	8.6	6	7.7	5	5.4	4.2	3.5	4	8.5	9	70.5
93	India	8.8	2.8	6.9	7.1	8.5	5	4.8	6.7	5.4	4.5	5.7	4.2	70.4
94	Albania	6	2.7	4.5	7	6	7	7	6.9	5.5	5.5	4.5	6	68.6
95	Libya	6	2.1	5.5	4	7.3	5.1	7.5	4.5	8.1	5.5	7.9	5	68.5
96	Botswana	9.3	6	3.5	6	6.9	5	5.5	6.8	4.9	4	3	6	66.9
97	Jamaica	6.5	2.5	4.5	6.7	6.5	5	7	6.5	5.6	6	3.9	6.1	66.8
98	Malaysia	6.5	4.1	5.5	3.5	6.6	4.3	5.9	5.8	6.5	6.2	5.5	5.7	66.1
99	Senegal	6.8	4.3	5.2	5	6.8	5.2	5.8	6.5	6	5.5	3.5	5.5	66.1
100	Tunisia	5.7	3.6	5	5	7.5	3.6	6.5	6	7.5	6	6	3	65.4
101	Brazil	6.5	3.6	5.7	5	8.5	2.7	5.5	6.7	5.3	5.7	3.2	4.7	63.1
102	Romania	6.5	3.9	5.4	5.5	6	5.9	6.2	5.3	4.8	3.5	4.1	5.5	62.6
103	Bulgaria	6	4.1	4	6	6.2	4.3	6.2	5.3	4.9	5.5	4.1	5.5	62.1
104	Croatia	5.7	6.6	6.5	5	5.7	5.8	4.2	4.1	4.6	4	3.9	5.8	61.9
105	Kuwait	5.7	4.5	4.5	4	6	2.8	6.8	3	6.5	5.5	7.5	4	60.8
106	Ghana	5.5	4.5	5	8	6.8	4	5.5	6.8	4.4	2	3.5	4.5	60.5
107	Panama	6.5	2.6	4.5	5	7.5	5.7	4.9	5.8	4.8	5.3	3	4	59.6
108	Mongolia	6	1	4.1	2	5.7	4.5	6.2	5.3	6.7	4.7	5	7.2	58.4
109	Latvia	5.7	5.9	4.5	5	7	5.5	4.8	4	3.7	2	4.1	4	56.2
110	South Africa	7.7	5.8	4.5	4	8	2.2	4.1	6	4	3.4	4	2	55.7
111	Estonia	5	5.1	4.5	4	5	3.5	5	4	3.7	2	5.9	3.3	51
112	Slovakia	4.5	1.8	4.4	5.5	6.5	4.5	3.8	4.3	4.6	2	4	4	49.9
113	Lithuania	5.7	3.5	3.5	5.5	6.1	4.5	4.1	4.1	3.7	2	3	4	49.7
114	Costa Rica	6	4.2	4	5	6.2	4.5	3.9	2.5	3.5	2	3.3	4.5	49.6
115	Poland	5	3.2	3.2	6.5	4.7	4.3	4.2	4.3	3.5	2	3	4	47.9
116	Hungary	3.7	3.6	3	5	6.4	4	3.8	4.2	4	2	3	4	46.7
117	Oman	2	1	3	1	2	3.5	6.3	3.5	6.5	5.5	7.5	2	43.8
118	Mauritius	3	1	3.5	2	6	3.1	5.1	4.5	4.7	4	3	2	41.9
119	Czech Republic	4	3.5	3.2	5	4	2.5	3.7	3.9	3	2	3.5	3.5	41.8
120	Uruguay	5	1	2	6	5	3.5	3	4	2.5	3	2.5	3.7	41.2
121	Greece	5	1.4	3.5	5.5	5	3.5	4	3	3	2	1.5	3.7	41.1
122	Argentina	3	1.4	4	4	5.2	4.2	3.5	4	3.7	2	2.8	3	40.8
123	South Korea (Republic of Korea)	4	4.2	3.5	5.5	2.5	1	3.9	1.5	2.8	1	3	7	39.9
124	Germany	4	5	4.9	3	6.2	3.2	2.3	1.8	2.9	2.5	1.8	2.1	39.7
125	Spain	3.2	1.8	5.8	1.5	5	3.3	1.5	1.5	2.9	3.2	5.7	2	37.4
126	Slovenia	4	1.5	3.5	3.5	5.5	3.2	3.2	3.5	3.7	3	1.2	1	36.8
127	Italy	3.5	2.8	3.5	3	4.5	4	3.2	1.5	1.8	2.5	2.8	2	35.1
128	USA	5	6	3	1	6	1.5	2.5	1	5	1	1.5	1	34.5
129	France	4	3.8	6	2	5	3	1.5	1	3.2	1	1.8	2	34.3
130	UK	3.5	3.9	5	2	5	1	2.5	1.8	2	2.5	3	2	34.2
131	Portugal	5	1	2.5	2	4	3.7	1.5	3.8	3.3	1	1.4	3.5	32.7
132	Chile	3	1	3.5	2	4	3.4	1.5	3.5	3.6	2	1.5	3	32
133	Singapore	2	1	3	3	2.5	3.3	3.5	1	3.5	1	4	3	30.8
134	Netherlands	3	4.1	4.8	2.5	4	2	1.2	1	1.5	1	1	2	28.1
135	Japan	4	1	3.8	2	2.5	2.6	1.8	1	3	1	1.3	4	28
136	Austria	2.5	2.1	3.5	1	5	1.9	1.3	1	1.5	1	2	3.3	26.1
137	Denmark	3	2.5	4.5	2	2	2	1	1	1.5	1	1	3.3	24.8
138	Belgium	3	1.5	3.5	1	4	2	1.5	1	1.5	1	1.5	2.5	24
139	Canada	3	2.3	2	2	5	1.2	1.5	1	1.5	1	1.6	1	23.1
140	Australia	2.5	1.5	3	1	4.5	1.5	1	1	2.5	1	1.5	1	22
141	New Zealand	1	1	2	2	4	2.9	1	1	1.5	1	1	1	19.4
142	Switzerland	3	1.5	2	2	2.5	1.2	1	1	1.5	1	1	1	18.7
143	Ireland	2	1.4	1	2	3	1.9	1.5	1.3	1.5	1	1	1	18.6
144	Finland	3	1.5	1	2	2	2.2	1	1	1.5	1	1	1	18.2
145	Sweden	3	2.5	1	2	2	1.2	1	1	1.5	1	1	1	18.2
146	Norway	3	1.5	1	1	2	1.8	1	1	1.5	1	1	1	16.8
Rank	Country	I 1	I 2	I 3	I 4	I 5	I 6	I 7	I 8	I 9	I 10	I 11	I 12	Total
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To be taken with a grain of salt, but none the less, interesting to see the top 10 and contrast it to your own opinion. I would have thought N. Korea higher than 14.

[Malsua]

Any list that puts socialist shitholes ahead of the USA is biased. Sweden has some of the highest taxes in the world, the highest absenteeism among workers and gee, imagine, among the lowest amount of discretionary spending for those same workers. Cradle to the grave, we know what to do with your money so we take it from you. It ranks 13 places higher than the USA.

Right.

I get it.

-Mal

[Malsua]

Or better yet, Norway.

Been there? 6 pack of beer, 18 US dollars. Dinner out for two people? $75 dollars. Travel on a major highway? Speed limit is 45 MPH and they record your time from toll booth to toll booth(which are about every 10 miles). Exceed it, pay the $500 fine. It's nearing end state cradle to grave to the point that any behavior that might cost the state anything, such as driving fast might cause injury is so over regulated you can't break wind without a tax. Might warm up the planet dontchaknow.

Norwegians are more wealthy per capita than any country in the world. The average American family living on 45k/year lives a better, more free life and has more stuff, more peace of mind and less gov't intrusion.

[Neue Regel]

Any list that puts socialist shitholes ahead of the USA is biased. ...

Ah. Yes, I see bias.

Obviously the criteria used to rank will greatly impact the order. This is a failed nations list with criteria targeting just that, not a livability or democracy list. The focus is in the nations within the red zone, not the yellow or green. Immediately discrediting the entire piece based solely upon it not listing the U.S. where you want it is a poor method of evaluation. Sometimes the results of analysis do not match our preference.

As I said "to be taken with a grain of salt" since any list is ultimately subjective to the criteria used to order it. My interest was who was in the top 20 red zone.

[Fourth Horseman]

Any list that puts socialist shitholes ahead of the USA is biased.

Let's look at the criteria that puts the US higher up the list...

1) Mounting demographic pressures- 5: can't really argue with this one being moderately high for the US, given the recent immigration protests. Not too many hispanics demonstrating for citizenship in Sweden, thus life goes a little more smoothly.

2) Uneven economic developement along group lines- 6: They knock the US for this, but isn't this just an indicator that some groups work harder than others? So if they call something bad that I think is good, the ranking will of course not match my thoughts.

I was kind of suprised to see Pakistan so high up (low down) on the list.