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INFORM Risk Index 2021

Published 2021 · describes 2020 · stored as published, never rewritten

INFORM Risk Index 2021 covers 191 countries on 4 measures. 2 countries share the highest reading, 8.3; Singapore is lowest, at 0.7. The middle country reads 3.6. Against the 2020 edition, 106 values changed (59 up, 47 down), the same countries are covered.

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INFORM Risk Index · Edition 2021

Highest2 countries share it

8.3

LowestSingapore

0.7

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 2021, 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 2021: every country, as published by European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee.
derived
=1South SudanSSDEastern Africa8.37.18.99.2
=1YemenYEMWestern Asia8.38.28.58.2
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia8.18.68.37.4
=4Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa7.86.38.68.9
=4ChadTCDMiddle Africa7.87.07.68.8
=4DR CongoCODMiddle Africa7.87.57.78.3
7SomaliaSOMEastern Africa7.78.37.57.3
8SyriaSYRWestern Asia7.58.57.36.9
=9NigerNERWestern Africa7.36.27.87.9
=9SudanSDNNorthern Africa7.37.37.27.5
11MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa7.27.07.86.9
12NigeriaNGAWestern Africa7.17.76.57.3
13MaliMLIWestern Africa7.06.77.37.1
14CameroonCMRMiddle Africa6.97.16.86.9
=15EthiopiaETHEastern Africa6.66.46.66.9
=15PakistanPAKSouthern Asia6.68.75.85.6
=17Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa6.54.97.97.1
=17BurundiBDIEastern Africa6.56.76.66.3
=17VenezuelaVENSouth America6.56.65.97.1
20MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia6.47.95.95.6
21KenyaKENEastern Africa6.36.76.75.6
=22HaitiHTICaribbean6.25.65.97.2
=22UgandaUGAEastern Africa6.25.17.16.7
=24AngolaAGOMiddle Africa6.15.95.27.3
=24BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia6.18.25.94.7

02In 2020

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudanshared8.3
  2. 1Yemenshared8.3
  3. 3Afghanistan8.1
  4. 4Central African Republicshared7.8
  5. 4DR Congoshared7.8

Lowest

  1. 191Singapore0.7
  2. 190Liechtenstein0.8
  3. 189Luxembourg1.0
  4. 188Czechia1.2
  5. 186Icelandshared1.3

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

032020 → 2021

Since the 2020 edition

What changed between the 2020 edition and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 106values changed, of 191 in both
  • 59 · 47rose · fell
  • 85unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 2020

    European Commission Joint Research Centre names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in INFORM Risk Index 2021 are for 2020.

  • 68 distinct values among 191

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 10 countries share 2.4. 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.

05The 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 (2021). INFORM Risk Index 2021 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/inform-risk/2021

0610 held

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07Questions

INFORM Risk Index 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest INFORM Risk Index in INFORM Risk Index 2021?

2 countries share the highest reading, 8.3, so no single country is named.

What year does INFORM Risk Index 2021 describe?

2020.

How many countries does INFORM Risk Index 2021 cover?

191.

Where can I download INFORM Risk Index 2021?

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 2021 the newest?

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

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