A Quick Guide To The Most Failed States In The World

Ricky Kreitner

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Foreign Policy magazine just released the 2011 Failed States Index, which annually assesses which nations in the world are closest to total implosion. The survey rates countries on a scale of 1-10 (one being very good, ten being very bad) on a series of 12 indicators. The nation with the highest score earns itself  the title of most failed state in the world.
Here we present you with a condensed version of the report, focusing on the worst countries in the world, specifically on four indicators:

• Public services
• Human rights
• Refugees
• Deligitmization of the state

Somalia - #1

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Public services - 9.4
Human rights - 9.7
Refugees - 10.0
Deligitmization of the state - 9.8 "Somalia's unending woes are the stuff hopelessness is made of," Foreign Policy reports. The country has been without a functioning government since a 1991 coup. In the last five years alone, it has a faced an Islamist insurgency, an Ethiopian occupation, and a chronic problem with piracy. It has topped the Failed States index for four years in a row.

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