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State Fragility Index and Matrix

The State Fragility Index and Matrix provides annual state fragility, effectiveness, and legitimacy indices and the eight component indicators for the world's 167 countries with populations greater than 500,000 in 2018.

Dataset type

Time-Series

Dataset level

Country

Last updated by source

2019-10-22

Citation

When using this dataset, please cite as:

• Marshall, M. G., & Elzinga-Marshall, G. (2017). Global report 2017: Conflict, governance, and state fragility.

@misc{cspf1,
 author = {Marshall, Monty G. and Elzinga-Marshall, Gabrielle},
 last_updated = {2025-11-05},
 note = {Center for Systemic Peace},
 title = {Global Report 2017: Conflict, Governance, and State Fragility},
 year = {2017}
}

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State Fragility Index

QoG code: cspf_sfi

A country's fragility is closely associated with its state capacity to manage conflict; make and implement public policy; and deliver essential services and its systemic resilience in maintaining syst ...

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