The 2013 Failed States Index With Interactive Map and Rankings

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Failed States Index: The Most Unsustainable Countries In The World Are All Concentrated In Africa -- IBTimes

Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and South Sudan are the four most dangerously unstable countries in the world, according to the just released Failed States Index, compiled by the Foreign Policy Group and the Fund For Peace.

The Failed States Index looks at 12 primary social, economic and political indicators -- like demographic pressures, human flight and brain drain, state legitimacy, poverty and economic decline, human rights, security apparatus -- that can be used as a tool to identify exactly what might push a country to the brink of failure, according to the Foreign Policy Group.

The most sustainable states on this ranked list were Finland and Sweden, followed by several other Western European countries and Canada.

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WNU Editor: Foreign Policy's complete report with numerous articles and commentary is here. The 2013 Failed States Index .... with interactive map and rankings .... can be viewed here.