This Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) report provides a global fragility ranking for a total of 198 countries using 2014 data. South Sudan tops the list of most fragile countries according to CIFP's ranking, followed closely by Somalia, the Central African Republic, Yemen, and Sudan. Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Iraq, and Syria round up our top 10. The majority of the top 20 most fragile states are located in Sub-Saharan Africa, a finding that is consistent with our historical data. The rest are in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), namely Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and the West Bank and Gaza, and in Central and South Asia, namely Afghanistan and Pakistan.
