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INFORM Severity Index, 2020

Figures for 2020, as ACAPS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

INFORM Severity Index, 2020 covers 61 countries on 2 measures. Syria is highest, at 4.9; Costa Rica is lowest, at 1.1. The middle country reads 3.3.

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INFORM Severity Index · Data for 2020

HighestSyria

4.9

LowestCosta Rica

1.1

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 Severity Index, 2020, as published. ACAPS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 61 countries · select a heading to sort

INFORM Severity Index, 2020: every country, as published by ACAPS.
derived
1SyriaSYRWestern Asia4.95
=2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia4.65
=2YemenYEMWestern Asia4.65
=4DR CongoCODMiddle Africa4.55
=4SudanSDNNorthern Africa4.55
=6LibyaLBYNorthern Africa4.25
=6South SudanSSDEastern Africa4.25
=8ChadTCDMiddle Africa4.15
=8ColombiaCOLSouth America4.15
=8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa4.15
=8VenezuelaVENSouth America4.15
=12Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa4.04
=12IraqIRQWestern Asia4.04
=12NigeriaNGAWestern Africa4.04
=12SomaliaSOMEastern Africa4.04
=16Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa3.94
=16PalestinePSEWestern Asia3.94
18MaliMLIWestern Africa3.84
=19CameroonCMRMiddle Africa3.74
=19EritreaERIEastern Africa3.74
=19NigerNERWestern Africa3.74
=19North KoreaPRKEastern Asia3.74
=23HaitiHTICaribbean3.54
=23LebanonLBNWestern Asia3.54
=23MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia3.54

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. 1Syria4.9
  2. 2Afghanistanshared4.6
  3. 2Yemenshared4.6
  4. 4DR Congoshared4.5
  5. 4Sudanshared4.5

Lowest

  1. 61Costa Rica1.1
  2. 60Tanzania1.7
  3. 58Trinidad and Tobagoshared1.8
  4. 58Greeceshared1.8
  5. 57Rwanda2.0

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.3. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Severity category (1–5)

    Highest11 share it

    Lowest5 share it

    Middle country: 4

03Caveats

Read before you use

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

How values are stored
  • 28 distinct values among 61

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 5 countries share 3.5. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    ACAPS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 61 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 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

ACAPS (2020). INFORM Severity Index, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/inform-severity/2020

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06Questions

INFORM Severity Index, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest INFORM Severity Index in INFORM Severity Index, 2020?

Syria, at 4.9, of the 61 countries in the file.

What year does INFORM Severity Index, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does INFORM Severity Index, 2020 cover?

61.

Where can I download INFORM Severity Index, 2020?

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

Is INFORM Severity Index, 2020 the newest?

No. The newest held here is INFORM Severity Index, 2025.

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