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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.

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INFORM Risk Index 2026 · describes 2025
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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.

2017bar height: countries covered, up to 1912026
Every edition of INFORM Risk Index held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionDescribesCountriesChangeReadDownload
INFORM Risk Index 2026Newest2025191±0September 6, 2026CSV
INFORM Risk Index 20252024191±0September 6, 2026CSV
INFORM Risk Index 20242023191±0September 6, 2026CSV
INFORM Risk Index 20232022191±0September 6, 2026CSV
INFORM Risk Index 20222021191±0September 6, 2026CSV
INFORM Risk Index 20212020191±0September 6, 2026CSV
INFORM Risk Index 20202019191±0September 6, 2026CSV
INFORM Risk Index 20192018191±0September 6, 2026CSV
INFORM Risk Index 20182017191±0September 6, 2026CSV
INFORM Risk Index 20172016191—September 6, 2026CSV

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

Every column in the newest file of INFORM Risk Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2026DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1910
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1910
INFORM Risk Score (0–10)risk_scoreHeadlineThe headline figure: INFORM Risk score (0–10, where 10 is the highest risk).Number · up to 1 decimal0.7Singapore8.5South Sudanmiddle 3.7650
Hazard & Exposurehazard_exposurePart of the headlineHow exposed the country is to hazards, natural and human, conflict included, scored 0–10, higher is worse.Number · up to 1 decimal0.5Luxembourg8.6Syriamiddle 3.7730
VulnerabilityvulnerabilityPart of the headlineHow susceptible its people are: deprivation, inequality, dependence on aid and vulnerable groups, scored 0–10, higher is worse.Number · up to 1 decimal0.5Singapore9.4Somaliamiddle 3.8680
Lack of Coping Capacitylack_of_copingPart of the headlineHow little institutional and infrastructure capacity there is to absorb a crisis, scored 0–10, higher is worse.Number · up to 1 decimal0.7Denmark9.2South Sudanmiddle 4.2710

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.

All regions
Countries in each edition of INFORM Risk Index, by continent.
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Africa54545454545454545454
Americas35353535353535353535
Asia48484848484848484848
Europe40404040404040404040
Oceania14141414141414141414
All191191191191191191191191191191

The same 191 countries in every edition.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee

  2. 2 · Their file

    INFORM Risk Index 2026

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 6, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    10 files, one per edition

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every edition together as inform-risk-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

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.

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