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INFORM Severity Index by country
How severe is a humanitarian crisis already under way?
Of the 81 countries compared in 2025, Trinidad and Tobago had the lowest reading, 1.3, and Sudan had the highest reading, 4.7. In the middle country the figure was 3.1. Among the 55 countries measured in every edition since 2020, the middle one moved from 3.4 to 3.6.
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INFORM Severity Index · 2025
Context statistic
Lowest of 81Trinidad and Tobago
1.3012025 · position · derived
Who leads
The three countries at the lowest end of 81 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
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2Photo: Poco a poco derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3Photo: zedlik , cropped by Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
02Every measured country
INFORM Severity Index on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a lower value — the better end.
- 4.0–4.7
- 3.3–3.9
- 2.6–3.2
- 2.1–2.5
- 1.3–2.0
- No reading in 2025 (21 measured in an earlier edition)
- Europe
2.0
the middle country, of 6 measured · 49 members
Spain1.5
Ukraine4.3Lowest and highest reading in Europe.
- Americas
2.9
the middle country, of 16 measured · 48 members
Trinidad and Tobago1.3
Haiti4.5Lowest and highest reading in Americas.
- Africa
3.2
the middle country, of 39 measured · 55 members
2 share 1.7
Sudan4.7Lowest and highest reading in Africa.
- Asia
3.6
the middle country, of 19 measured · 52 members
Malaysia1.7
Myanmar4.6Lowest and highest reading in Asia.
- Oceania
1 of 21 measured — too few for a middle: Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea1.7Lowest and highest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
15 sub-regions, lowest middle country first
- Northern Africa
2.4
the middle country, of 6 measured · 6 members
2 share 1.7
Sudan4.7Lowest and highest reading in Northern Africa.
- Caribbean
2.5
the middle country, of 5 measured · 24 members
Trinidad and Tobago1.3Haiti4.5Lowest and highest reading in Caribbean.
- South-eastern Asia
2.6
the middle country, of 5 measured · 11 members
Malaysia1.7Myanmar4.6Lowest and highest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Central America
2.8
the middle country, of 6 measured · 8 members
Panama1.7
Honduras3.4Lowest and highest reading in Central America.
- Western Africa
3.0
the middle country, of 10 measured · 16 members
Côte d’Ivoire2.1
Mali4.3Lowest and highest reading in Western Africa.
- Eastern Africa
3.2
the middle country, of 15 measured · 19 members
Rwanda2.4
South Sudan4.5Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Africa.
- South America
3.5
the middle country, of 5 measured · 12 members
Chile2.3
Colombia4.0Lowest and highest reading in South America.
- Southern Asia
3.7
the middle country, of 6 measured · 9 members
India2.6
Afghanistan4.5Lowest and highest reading in Southern Asia.
- Western Asia
3.8
the middle country, of 7 measured · 19 members
Jordan3.02 share 4.5
Lowest and highest reading in Western Asia.
- Middle Africa
4.0
the middle country, of 5 measured · 9 members
Angola3.3
DR Congo4.4Lowest and highest reading in Middle Africa.
- Eastern Asia
1 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: North Korea.
North Korea3.8Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Eastern Europe
3 of 10 measured — too few for a middle: Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine.
Belarus1.7Ukraine4.3Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Melanesia
1 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea1.7Lowest and highest reading in Melanesia.
- Southern Africa
3 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia.
Lesotho2.2
Namibia2.6Lowest and highest reading in Southern Africa.
- Southern Europe
3 of 17 measured — too few for a middle: Greece, Italy, Spain.
Spain1.5
Greece2.2Lowest and highest reading in Southern Europe.
03The whole field at once
The spread
81 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 3.1; a quarter are above 3.9, and a quarter below 2.4. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 102 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first — position 1 is the highest value, the way ACAPS’s own tables read. “=” marks a position shared with another country. ACAPS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. This is not a world ranking. Only countries in humanitarian crisis are scored — never the roughly 190 the rest of this site covers — so a country missing from an edition usually has no crisis to score, which is the opposite of a bad result.
Showing 25 of 102 countries
Values for 2025. The change column compares 2025 with 2024 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.
052020–2025 · 6 editions
Over time
Each point is one year-end snapshot, 2020 to 2025, and each names the month it came from.
- the middle country
- the middle half of countries
- the middle of the 55 countries measured every time
- each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
| Year | Countries | Middle country | Middle half | Measured every time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81 | 3.1 | 2.4 – 3.9 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 91 | 2.8 | 2.2 – 3.9 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 91 | 2.9 | 2.2 – 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2022 | 84 | 3.0 | 2.4 – 3.8 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 64 | 3.5 | 2.5 – 4.1 | 3.6 |
| 2020 | 61 | 3.3 | 2.7 – 3.9 | 3.4 |
062024 → 2025
Who rose and fell
The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.
Improved most
before → after
Bangladesh4.1 → 3.4 · 13th → 31st−0.7
Somalia4.7 → 4.3 · 3rd → 9th−0.4- Papua New Guinea2.1 → 1.7 · 69th → 74th−0.4
Tunisia2.1 → 1.7 · 69th → 74th−0.4- Spain1.9 → 1.5 · 74th → 80th−0.4
75 countries were measured in both 2024 and 2025. The field changed from 91 to 81 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.
07Across every edition
INFORM Severity Index in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading on record
5.0
INFORM Severity (1–5, most severe crisis)
Lowest reading on record
1.1
INFORM Severity (1–5, most severe crisis)
Biggest improvement between editions
−2.0
3.3 → 1.3
Biggest decline between editions
+1.9
1.3 → 3.2
Most improved since first measured
−1.0
2.7 → 1.7
At the top most often
2 of 6
editions, alone at the first-listed end
08The measure
About INFORM Severity Index
The INFORM Severity Index scores how bad a humanitarian crisis actually is, from 1 to 5, built from the conditions of the people affected, the complexity of the crisis and how hard it is to operate there. ACAPS publishes it monthly for the countries in crisis.
What the number is: INFORM Severity (1–5, most severe crisis).
09Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Health & Wellbeing and Risk & Resilience, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Health & WellbeingRisk & ResilienceWhich statistics vote, and why
Moves with
Where INFORM Severity Index is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- INFORM Risk IndexKeyEuropean Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee · 81 countries in commonρ 0.81
- Refugees by Country of OriginUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 81 countries in commonρ 0.71
- Civilian Deaths in Organized ViolenceUCDP · 80 countries in commonρ 0.67
Moves against
Where INFORM Severity Index is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Political Stability and Absence of ViolenceKeyWorld Bank Group · 81 countries in commonρ −0.76
- Rule of LawKeyWorld Bank Group · 81 countries in commonρ −0.76
- Government EffectivenessKeyWorld Bank Group · 81 countries in commonρ −0.73
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 120 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
10Analysis
Charts and analysis on INFORM Severity Index
11Keep reading
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The subject
12Questions
INFORM Severity Index: questions and answers
Which country has the lowest INFORM Severity Index?
Trinidad and Tobago, at 1.3, among the 81 countries compared in 2025.
Which country has the highest INFORM Severity Index?
Sudan, at 4.7, among the 81 countries compared in 2025.
How many countries does the INFORM Severity Index cover?
81 in 2025, and 102 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 61 to 91 between editions.
What is the world average INFORM Severity Index?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 81 compared in 2025, the figure was 3.1.
Is this ACAPS’s own ranking?
No. ACAPS publishes the values but ranks nobody; the position on this page is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values, and equal values share a position.
How often is the INFORM Severity Index published?
This site holds 6 editions, describing 2020 to 2025.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From ACAPS, under CC BY 4.0. From the ACAPS INFORM Severity dataset, taking the last release of each year. Where a country has more than one crisis the most severe is shown, because ACAPS publishes no combined country figure. The series stops at 2025: ACAPS moved to a 1–10 scale in January 2026, and importing both would show every country’s severity doubling overnight. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
13Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
INFORM Severity Index — ACAPS
From the ACAPS INFORM Severity dataset, taking the last release of each year. Where a country has more than one crisis the most severe is shown, because ACAPS publishes no combined country figure. The series stops at 2025: ACAPS moved to a 1–10 scale in January 2026, and importing both would show every country’s severity doubling overnight.
Newest edition
Report year 2025Data year 2025
Cite the source as: ACAPS. INFORM Severity Index. Geneva: ACAPS.
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-09-05.
How this page reads the numbers
- ACAPS ranks nobody on this measure. The position is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values; equal values share a position.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Trinidad and Tobago — Wikifurn, CC0
- Spain — Poco a poco derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Belarus — zedlik , cropped by Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). INFORM Severity Index by country: INFORM Severity Index, data from ACAPS. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/inform-severity