States of Fragility 2025 Report by OECD

In the “States of Fragility 2025” report, OECD defines fragility as the combination of risk exposure and a state, system, or community's insufficient resilience. The organization assessed this condition using 56 indicators across six dimensions: economic, environmental, political, security, societal, and human. While all 177 contexts analyzed by the OECD show some level of fragility, 61 are identified with high or extreme levels. These areas face overlapping crises related to armed conflicts, forced displacement, climate and environmental stress, debt burdens, and worsening food insecurity and gender inequality. This is happening as international investment in peace and conflict prevention is at its second-lowest level since 2004. The report highlights how state and non-state actors are increasingly exploiting fragility for geopolitical and economic gain, which undermines development efforts. All in all, the report calls for urgent, coordinated international action to refocus on the most vulnerable contexts, reinvest in prevention and resilience, and align development, peace, and security policies to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. 

The report's findings are supported by its online platform, which provides analysis of multidimensional fragility and resource flows. (https://www3.compareyourcountry.org/states-of-fragility/overview/0/)

The platform allows users to explore individual country profiles, such as that for Myanmar, to better understand specific fragile contexts. (https://www3.compareyourcountry.org/states-of-fragility/countries/MMR/)


OECD (2025), States of Fragility 2025, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/81982370-en.




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