Failed States Index? or Collapsing Nations Index By Agnets of Gloom and Doom

Foreign Policy and The Fund for Peace

Date: Tue Jun 24 2008

Ethiopia ranks 16th in Failed States 2008 Index

Ethiopia is ranked 16th in the fourth annual Failed
States Index, published by FOREIGN POLICY and The Fund
for Peace.

Somalia is ranked as the world's most
unstable country followed by Sudan, Zimbabwe, Chad and
Iraq.

The index ranks countries where state collapse may be
just one disaster away.

Using 12 social, economic, political, and military
indicators, the report ranked 177 states in order of
their vulnerability to violent internal conflict and
societal deterioration.

According to the website, the report examined more
than 30,000 publicly available sources, collected from
May to December 2007, to form the basis of the index¢s
scores.

The Top 20 Most Unstable Countries in the world

Source: Foreign Policy

1 Somalia
2 Sudan
3 Zimbabwe
4 Chad
5 Iraq
6 D. R.
Congo
7 Afghanistan
8 Cote d'Ivoire
9 Pakistan
10 Central African Republic
11 Guinea
12 Bangladesh
12 Burma
14 Haiti
15 North Korea
16 Ethiopia
16 Uganda
18 Lebanon
19 Nigeria
20 Sri Lanka -------------------

-- Selected Countries 26 Kenya 40 Egypt 44 Eritrea 49
Iran 68 China 161 USA 177 Norway

Failed states Index 2008
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