The Fund for Peace eleventh annual Fragile States Index (FSI) focuses on the indicators of risk and is based on thousands of articles and reports that are processed from electronically available sources.
In the 2015 index, Armenia fell into the Low Warning category and is ranked 108 out of 178 countries with Finland in the last place and standing alone in the Very Sustainable category. Armenia’s neighbors Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey were deemed more of a threat to world peace and were respectively numbered 70, 80 and 90, all in the Warning category. Iran, at 44th place is considered a High Warning.
The index maps the countries, which are the greatest threat to global stability based on several categories, including the state’s legitimacy, security apparatus, uneven development, economic decline and the number of refugees fleeing the country.
However, the authors added: “Between 2014 and 2015, 108 countries improved by more than 0.2 points, while only half as many (52) worsened by greater than 0.2 points.
“In the past decade, there has been an overall improvement worldwide, where roughly the same ratio of countries are better off today than they were ten years ago.” Armenia is one of the 108 countries, which improved their ratings. In 2014, Armenia was at the 104th place and was given a High Warning.
