Friday offtopic. World stability in a chart

[airiefairie]

In terms of stability, all countries are not created equal. Some are rich, some are poor, some are violent and some are safe. The Fund For Peace, a U.S.-based NGO, stack ranks 174 countries every year based on how stable a country is. Hard data such as economic indicators, security, strength of factions and other indicators are analyzed and compared yearly. Each country, based on its data, is given a score and ranked from 1 to 174. The higher the rank, the more unstable the country. The data may surprise you.

Comments

[fridi]

Argentina is stable?
Chile is better than Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania, etc?
No Taiwan?
No Venezuela?

[airiefairie]

If you go to the original map, you find Venezuela 32nd (1st being the worse) between Mauritania and Mozambique - https://fragilestatesindex.org/data/

[fridi]

Nah. Maybe they're just so bad, maybe they can't fall anymore. They've fully de-stabalized to zero, perhaps. ;)

[dewline]

Well, Canada's in the 20 to 29 range on the fragility index, so I guess we're doing okay for now? Barring any more crazy from our own right-wingers or from those elsewhere, or both...

[mikeyxw]

I wouldn't be so comfortable. If the US goes down, we're taking you guys with us. Really, your score should be Canada+US, which would put you in the 50's or 60's. Sorry.