The list is topped by Somalia, followed by Zimbabwe, Sudan and Chand. While India has been ranked at 87th position, Afghanistan is at 13th and Pakistan at 10th position. [break]
In the list of 177, Myanmar has been placed at 13 and Sri Lanka (22). China is ranked at 57th place. Norway is ranked at the bottom of the list.
"The 10 states that fill out the top ranks of this year´s Failed States Index -- the world´s most vulnerable nations -- are a sadly familiar bunch. Shattered Somalia has been the No 1 failed state for three years running, and none of the current top 10 has shown much improvement, if any, since FOREIGN POLICY and the Fund for Peace began publishing the index in 2005," it said.
"Altogether, the top 10 slots have rotated among just 15 unhappy countries in the index´s six years. State failure, it seems, is a chronic condition," the magazine said.
The magazine said Somalia saw yet another year plagued by lawlessness and chaos, with pirates plying the coast while radical Islamist militias tightened their grip on the streets of Mogadishu.
"Across the Gulf of Aden, long-ignored Yemen leapt into the news when a would-be suicide bomber who had trained there tried to blow up a commercial flight bound for Detroit," it said.
Afghanistan and Iraq traded places on the index as both states contemplated the exit of US combat troops, while already isolated Sudan saw its dictator, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, defy an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court and the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo once again proved itself a country in little more than name, the magazine said.
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