ARMENIA RANKS 112TH IN THE FAILED STATES INDEX
ArmRadio.am
20.06.2007 18:04
The Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace research centers issued
the annual Failed States Index – which has been expanded to include
177 countries.
Using 12 social, economic, political, and military indicators, we
ranked 177 states in order of their vulnerability to violent internal
conflict and societal deterioration. The index scores are based on
data from more than 12,000 publicly available sources collected from
May to December 2006.
The top ten of the most unstable states includes Iraq, Sudan, Somalia,
Zimbabwe, Chad, Cot d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), the Democratic Republic
of Congo, Afghanistan, Guinea and the Central African Republic.
Armenia ranks 112th, Azerbaijan – 62nd and Georgia – 58th.
Uzbekistan is 22nd, Tajikistan – 29th, Kyrgyzstan – 41st, Turkmenistan
– 43rd, Moldova – 48th, Belarus – 51st.