Data for 2022

INFORM Severity Index, 2022

Name: INFORM Severity Index, 2022
Creator: ACAPS
License: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/inform-global-crisis-severity-index

Figures for 2022, as ACAPS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

INFORM Severity Index, 2022 covers 84 countries on 2 measures. Yemen is highest, at 4.7; Tonga is lowest, at 1.2. The middle country reads 3.0. Against 2021, 56 values changed (21 up, 35 down), 20 countries joined.

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INFORM Severity Index · Data for 2022

HighestYemen

4.7

LowestTonga

1.2

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

84countries
2measures per country
2022the year it describes
33distinct values1 decimal, as published
Sep 6, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of INFORM Severity Index, 2022, as published. ACAPS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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INFORM Severity Index, 2022: every country, as published by ACAPS.
derived
1	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	4.7	5
=2	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	4.5	5
=2	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	4.5	5
=4	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	4.4	5
=4	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	4.4	5
=4	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	4.4	5
=4	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	4.4	5
=4	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	4.4	5
=9	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	4.2	5
=9	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	4.2	5
=11	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	4.1	5
=11	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	4.1	5
=11	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	4.1	5
=11	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	4.1	5
=11	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	4.1	5
=16	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	4.0	4
=16	Colombia`COL`South America	4.0	4
=16	Venezuela`VEN`South America	4.0	4
=19	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	3.9	4
=19	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	3.9	4
=21	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	3.8	4
=21	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	3.8	4
=21	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	3.8	4
=24	Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	3.7	4
=24	North Korea`PRK`Eastern Asia	3.7	4
=26	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	3.6	4
=26	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	3.6	4
=28	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	3.5	4
=28	Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	3.5	4
=28	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	3.5	4
=28	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	3.5	4
=28	Niger`NER`Western Africa	3.5	4
=28	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	3.5	4
=34	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	3.4	4
=34	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	3.4	4
36	Honduras`HND`Central America	3.3	4
=37	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	3.2	4
=37	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	3.2	4
=37	Peru`PER`South America	3.2	4
=37	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	3.2	4
41	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	3.1	4
=42	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	3.0	3
=42	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	3.0	3
=44	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	2.9	3
=44	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	2.9	3
=44	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	2.9	3
=47	Brazil`BRA`South America	2.8	3
=47	Ecuador`ECU`South America	2.8	3
=47	Mexico`MEX`Central America	2.8	3
=50	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	2.7	3
=50	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	2.7	3
=50	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	2.7	3
=50	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	2.7	3
=50	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	2.7	3
55	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	2.6	3
=56	Chile`CHL`South America	2.5	3
=56	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	2.5	3
=56	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	2.5	3
=56	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	2.5	3
=56	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	2.5	3
=61	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	2.4	3
=61	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	2.4	3
=61	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	2.4	3
=64	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	2.3	3
=64	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	2.3	3
=64	Panama`PAN`Central America	2.3	3
=64	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	2.3	3
=68	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	2.2	3
=68	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	2.2	3
=68	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	2.2	3
=71	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	2.1	3
=71	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	2.1	3
=73	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	2.0	2
=73	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	2.0	2
75	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	1.9	2
=76	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	1.8	2
=76	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	1.8	2
=76	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	1.8	2
=76	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	1.8	2
80	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	1.7	2
81	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	1.6	2
82	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	1.4	2
83	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	1.3	2
84	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	1.2	2

02In 2022

At either end

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

Highest

1Yemen4.7
2Afghanistanshared4.5
2Syriashared4.5
4Myanmarshared4.4
4Sudanshared4.4

Lowest

84Tonga1.2
83Armenia1.3
82Greece1.4
81Gambia1.6
80Egypt1.7

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.0. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Severity category (1–5)
Highest15 share it
Lowest12 share it
Middle country: 3

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

What changed between 2021 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+20 / −0countries joined / left
56values changed, of 64 in both
21 · 35rose · fell
8unchanged

Rose most

Costa Rica1.2 → 2.1+0.9
Philippines2.3 → 3.0+0.7
Haiti3.6 → 4.2+0.6
Kenya3.2 → 3.8+0.6
Malaysia1.8 → 2.3+0.5

Fell most

Republic of the Congo3.4 → 2.1−1.3
Egypt2.5 → 1.7−0.8
Ethiopia4.8 → 4.1−0.7
Honduras3.8 → 3.3−0.5
Iraq4.3 → 3.8−0.5

+ Angola

+ Azerbaijan

+ Chile

+ Dominican Republic

+ Algeria

+ Gambia

+ Hungary

+ Indonesia

+ Sri Lanka

+ Morocco

+ Moldova

+ Mexico

+ Nicaragua

+ Panama

+ Papua New Guinea

+ Poland

+ Romania

+ Slovakia

+ Tonga

+ Tunisia

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

33 distinct values among 84
Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 6 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 84 countries has every column.

05The files

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ACAPS’s own file, on its own site.
202211-inform-severity-november-2022.xlsx

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 (2022). INFORM Severity Index, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/inform-severity/2022

066 held

Other years

‹ The year before
INFORM Severity Index, 2021
64 countries
The year after ›
INFORM Severity Index, 2023
91 countries
All of them
INFORM Severity Index: every year
6 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country

07Questions