Dataset · European Commission Joint Research Centre
INFORM Risk Index
10 editions, 2017–2026 · 191 countries · 4 measures
INFORM Risk scores a country’s exposure to humanitarian crisis from 0 to 10, combining the hazards it faces, how vulnerable its people are, and how little capacity there is to cope. Built by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre with the UN’s Inter-Agency Standing Committee, it is what aid agencies use to decide where to prepare.
This site holds every edition from 2017 to 2026 (the newest describes 2025), read from European Commission Joint Research Centre’s own data and stored exactly as published.
INFORM Risk Index · the file
- Newest
- INFORM Risk Index 2026 · describes 2025
- Held
- 10 editions · 1,910 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0110 editions
Every edition
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Edition | Describes | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INFORM Risk Index 2026Newest | 2025 | 191 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| INFORM Risk Index 2025 | 2024 | 191 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| INFORM Risk Index 2024 | 2023 | 191 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| INFORM Risk Index 2023 | 2022 | 191 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| INFORM Risk Index 2022 | 2021 | 191 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| INFORM Risk Index 2021 | 2020 | 191 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| INFORM Risk Index 2020 | 2019 | 191 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| INFORM Risk Index 2019 | 2018 | 191 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| INFORM Risk Index 2018 | 2017 | 191 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| INFORM Risk Index 2017 | 2016 | 191 | — | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: inform-risk-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
026 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
INFORM Risk Score (0–10)is built fromHazard & ExposureVulnerabilityLack of Coping Capacity
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2026 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 191 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 191 | 0 | |
INFORM Risk Score (0–10)risk_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: INFORM Risk score (0–10, where 10 is the highest risk). | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.7 | 65 | 0 | |
Hazard & Exposurehazard_exposurePart of the headline | How exposed the country is to hazards, natural and human, conflict included, scored 0–10, higher is worse. | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.5 | 73 | 0 | |
VulnerabilityvulnerabilityPart of the headline | How susceptible its people are: deprivation, inequality, dependence on aid and vulnerable groups, scored 0–10, higher is worse. | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.5 | 68 | 0 | |
Lack of Coping Capacitylack_of_copingPart of the headline | How little institutional and infrastructure capacity there is to absorb a crisis, scored 0–10, higher is worse. | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.7 | 71 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.
03191 countries across every edition
Who is covered
How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
| Asia | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 |
| Europe | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Oceania | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| All | 191 | 191 | 191 | 191 | 191 | 191 | 191 | 191 | 191 | 191 |
The same 191 countries in every edition.
Not in this dataset · 34 places this site covers
European Commission Joint Research Centre gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee
2 · Their file
INFORM Risk Index 2026
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
10 files, one per edition
Each downloads as a CSV, or every edition together as inform-risk-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/inform-riskA key for Risk & Resilience in the Country Index.
Precision
The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From the JRC’s own trend file, with all three dimensions stored alongside the score. It measures humanitarian crisis risk — conflict, displacement and fragility included — where the World Risk Index measures natural hazards. Near neighbours, not duplicates.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked August 29, 2026
CC BY 4.0 (via the European Commission's reuse policy)
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
In plain words
INFORM’s own pages name no licence. The European Commission licenses the content it owns under CC BY 4.0 through its reuse policy, and INFORM is a Commission product.
A credit line
Source: European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, INFORM Risk Index, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee. INFORM Risk Index, 2017–2026 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/inform-risk
The publisher’s own citation: European Commission, Joint Research Centre. INFORM Risk Index. Ispra: European Commission.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
INFORM Risk Index: questions and answers
What is the INFORM Risk Index?
INFORM Risk scores a country’s exposure to humanitarian crisis from 0 to 10, combining the hazards it faces, how vulnerable its people are, and how little capacity there is to cope. Built by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre with the UN’s Inter-Agency Standing Committee, it is what aid agencies use to decide where to prepare.
Which editions of the INFORM Risk Index can I download?
All 10, from 2017 to 2026, each as a CSV file, or every edition together in one CSV.
Why does INFORM Risk Index 2026 describe 2025?
European Commission Joint Research Centre names each edition for the year it is released, and builds it from figures for an earlier year. Every page here shows both years.
Does European Commission Joint Research Centre rank countries on it?
No. European Commission Joint Research Centre publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to European Commission Joint Research Centre. The licence text is linked on this page.