This is a slight improvement from last year´s index. Nepal ranked 23rd on the index last year.
The fifth annual ´Failed States Index´ is a collaboration between The Fund for Peace, an independent research organization and Foreign Policy.
It is a sobering time for the world´s most fragile countries, virulent economic crisis, countless natural disasters and government collapse, it noted.
Using 12 indicators of state cohesion and performance, compiled through a close examination of more than 30,000 publicly available sources, the journal ranked 177 states in order from most to least at risk of failure.
India is ranked 87th, showing an improvement over the previous year. Sri Lanka placed 12th, Bangladesh 19th, Pakistan 10th, and Afghanistan 7th.
Somalia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Chat, DRC and Iraq topped the first six positions respectively while Guinea and CAR are on 8th and 9th positions respectively.
The Failed States Index does not provide all the answers, nor does it claim to be able to. But it is a starting point for a discussion about why states fail and what should be done about them - a discussion, sadly, that we might be having even more frequently this year, the magazine said.
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