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INFORM Risk Index 2017

Published 2017 · describes 2016 · stored as published, never rewritten

INFORM Risk Index 2017 covers 191 countries on 4 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 8.7; Singapore is lowest, at 0.6. The middle country reads 3.6.

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INFORM Risk Index · Edition 2017

HighestSouth Sudan

8.7

LowestSingapore

0.6

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of INFORM Risk Index 2017, as published. European Commission Joint Research Centre ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 191 countries · select a heading to sort

INFORM Risk Index 2017: every country, as published by European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee.
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa8.77.69.19.5
=2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia8.08.67.77.6
=2YemenYEMWestern Asia8.08.17.97.9
4Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa7.96.48.69.1
5SomaliaSOMEastern Africa7.67.97.27.7
=6DR CongoCODMiddle Africa7.57.17.38.2
=6SudanSDNNorthern Africa7.57.57.37.7
8SyriaSYRWestern Asia7.47.97.27.1
=9ChadTCDMiddle Africa7.25.67.49.0
=9NigeriaNGAWestern Africa7.27.96.57.4
11NigerNERWestern Africa6.95.67.28.2
12MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia6.87.96.56.2
=13EthiopiaETHEastern Africa6.76.66.76.9
=13PakistanPAKSouthern Asia6.78.66.05.8
=15MaliMLIWestern Africa6.65.87.07.1
=15MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa6.65.86.97.2
=17IraqIRQWestern Asia6.58.16.45.4
=17KenyaKENEastern Africa6.56.96.56.1
19CameroonCMRMiddle Africa6.46.16.36.9
20BurundiBDIEastern Africa6.36.06.46.6
21UgandaUGAEastern Africa6.24.97.07.0
=22BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia6.18.15.64.9
=22IndiaINDSouthern Asia6.18.15.84.9
=22LibyaLBYNorthern Africa6.16.74.86.9
25HaitiHTICaribbean6.04.56.67.3

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan8.7
  2. 2Afghanistanshared8.0
  3. 2Yemenshared8.0
  4. 4Central African Republic7.9
  5. 5Somalia7.6

Lowest

  1. 191Singapore0.6
  2. 190Liechtenstein0.9
  3. 189Luxembourg1.0
  4. 187Icelandshared1.2
  5. 187Czechiashared1.2

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.6. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • This edition describes 2016

    European Commission Joint Research Centre names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in INFORM Risk Index 2017 are for 2016.

  • 68 distinct values among 191

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 9 countries share 5.3. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    European Commission Joint Research Centre publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 191 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 (via the European Commission's reuse policy) · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (2017). INFORM Risk Index 2017 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/inform-risk/2017

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06Questions

INFORM Risk Index 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest INFORM Risk Index in INFORM Risk Index 2017?

South Sudan, at 8.7, of the 191 countries in the file.

What year does INFORM Risk Index 2017 describe?

2016.

How many countries does INFORM Risk Index 2017 cover?

191.

Where can I download INFORM Risk Index 2017?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is INFORM Risk Index 2017 the newest?

No. The newest held here is INFORM Risk Index 2026.

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