Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Edition 2024

INFORM Risk Index 2024

Published 2024 · describes 2023 · stored as published, never rewritten

INFORM Risk Index 2024 covers 191 countries on 4 measures. 3 countries share the highest reading, 8.2; Singapore is lowest, at 0.7. The middle country reads 3.6. Against the 2023 edition, 126 values changed (64 up, 62 down), the same countries are covered.

Share

INFORM Risk Index · Edition 2024

Highest3 countries share it

8.2

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 2024, 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 2024: every country, as published by European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee.
derived
=1DR CongoCODMiddle Africa8.28.38.28.1
=1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa8.28.29.47.2
=1South SudanSSDEastern Africa8.26.98.99.1
4YemenYEMWestern Asia8.07.88.38.0
=5AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia7.97.88.47.4
=5ChadTCDMiddle Africa7.96.98.28.6
=7Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa7.86.38.58.7
=7SudanSDNNorthern Africa7.87.87.97.6
9SyriaSYRWestern Asia7.78.47.77.0
10NigerNERWestern Africa7.57.27.67.7
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa7.38.27.16.7
=12Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa7.26.97.87.0
=12MaliMLIWestern Africa7.27.86.86.9
14MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa7.17.17.56.8
=15CameroonCMRMiddle Africa7.07.36.96.7
=15NigeriaNGAWestern Africa7.07.66.57.0
17HaitiHTICaribbean6.96.57.07.2
18MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia6.88.36.46.0
19VenezuelaVENSouth America6.76.86.56.9
20PakistanPAKSouthern Asia6.68.46.15.5
21UgandaUGAEastern Africa6.56.16.96.6
22BurundiBDIEastern Africa6.36.36.56.2
23PalestinePSEWestern Asia6.16.36.45.6
=24IranIRNSouthern Asia6.08.34.85.4
=24IraqIRQWestern Asia6.07.85.65.0

02In 2023

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1DR Congoshared8.2
  2. 1Somaliashared8.2
  3. 1South Sudanshared8.2
  4. 4Yemen8.0
  5. 5Afghanistanshared7.9

Lowest

  1. 191Singapore0.7
  2. 190Liechtenstein1.0
  3. 189Luxembourg1.2
  4. 187Seychellesshared1.3
  5. 187Qatarshared1.3

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

  • Hazard & Exposure

    Highest4 share it

    LowestLuxembourg0.6

    Middle country: 3.3

  • Vulnerability

    HighestSomalia9.4

    LowestSingapore0.5

    Middle country: 3.9

  • Lack of Coping Capacity

    HighestSouth Sudan9.1

    Lowest2 share it

    Middle country: 4.2

032023 → 2024

Since the 2023 edition

What changed between the 2023 edition and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 126values changed, of 191 in both
  • 64 · 62rose · fell
  • 65unchanged

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 2023

    European Commission Joint Research Centre names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in INFORM Risk Index 2024 are for 2023.

  • 67 distinct values among 191

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 9 countries share 2.6. 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 (2024). INFORM Risk Index 2024 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/inform-risk/2024

0610 held

Other editions

07Questions

INFORM Risk Index 2024: questions and answers

Which country has the highest INFORM Risk Index in INFORM Risk Index 2024?

3 countries share the highest reading, 8.2, so no single country is named.

What year does INFORM Risk Index 2024 describe?

2023.

How many countries does INFORM Risk Index 2024 cover?

191.

Where can I download INFORM Risk Index 2024?

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 2024 the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.