Fragile States Index 2025
Fund for Peace · Published 2025
Latest edition: 2025
This ranking is misleading. Its core is a content analysis of millions of documents that no outsider can inspect or reproduce.
What the report claims
The Fund for Peace’s Fragile States Index scores 179 countries on twelve indicators of cohesion, economics, politics, and social pressure. India ranks 73rd with a score of 72.3, where a higher score means more fragile. The method triangulates three streams: content analysis of millions of documents, quantitative data from institutions including the UNHCR, the WHO, the UNDP, Transparency International, the World Bank, and Freedom House, and qualitative review.
The Credibility Score, dimension by dimension
- Methodology transparency / replicability
- 6 / 20
- Source verifiability + measurement integrity
- 7 / 25
- Internal consistency of India’s place
- 11 / 20
- Construct validity / India coverage
- 4 / 10
- Independence and funding
- 5 / 20
- Accountability (corrections, versioning)
- 2 / 5
Funding and independence: The Fund for Peace is a Washington-based nonprofit governed by a board, with a stated conflict-prevention and early-warning mission, and its own analysts produce the scores. It lists international development agencies, foreign governments, philanthropic foundations, and multinational extractive corporations among its partners, but it does not disclose exact funding amounts per donor or index-specific sponsorship. There is no independent review body signing off on country scores and no formal public corrections log.
Sources: Fund for Peace, Fragile States Index 2025
Updated 9 November 2026