Political stability

How unlikely the government is to be destabilised by violence.

measured by: World Bank
years covered: 1996–2024
subject: Government

Higher is generally taken as better.

How this is measured

Perceived likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, including terrorism, rescaled to 0–100. Stability is not freedom and the two come apart often: a settled authoritarian state scores well here, and a country in the middle of a democratic transition scores badly.

Ranked for 2024

170 countries and territories have a figure for 2024. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1996.

#	Country	Region	Stability
1	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	89.0
2	Uruguay	Americas	87.7
3	Greenland	Americas	87.1
4	Iceland	Europe	86.5
5	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	86.4
6	Costa Rica	Americas	86.0
7	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	85.5
8	Japan	Asia-Pacific	85.3
9	New Caledonia	Asia-Pacific	84.6
10	Luxembourg	Europe	84.2
11	Bahamas	Americas	83.8
12	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	83.5
13	Switzerland	Europe	82.6
14	Czechia	Europe	82.5
15	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	82.3
16	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	82.1
17	Lithuania	Europe	81.9
18	Norway	Europe	81.3
19	Finland	Europe	80.1
20	Australia	Asia-Pacific	79.4
21	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	79.4
22	Belize	Americas	79.3
23	Denmark	Europe	79.0
24	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	78.7
25	Slovenia	Europe	78.2
26	Ireland	Europe	78.0
27	Estonia	Europe	77.8
28	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	77.8
29	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	76.8
30	Slovakia	Europe	76.7
31	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	76.6
32	Latvia	Europe	76.5
33	Sweden	Europe	76.2
34	Canada	Americas	76.1
35	Dominican Republic	Americas	76.0
36	Croatia	Europe	75.8
37	Laos	Asia-Pacific	75.4
38	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	75.2
39	Portugal	Europe	75.1
40	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	74.9
41	Poland	Europe	74.4
42	Austria	Europe	74.3
43	Suriname	Americas	74.1
44	Jamaica	Americas	74.0
45	Puerto Rico	Americas	73.4
46	Hungary	Europe	73.3
47	Netherlands	Europe	73.2
48	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	73.1
49	Cyprus	Europe	72.5
50	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	72.5
51	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	72.0
52	Montenegro	Europe	71.6
53	North Korea	Asia-Pacific	71.4
54	Cuba	Americas	71.3
55	Italy	Europe	71.2
56	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	70.9
57	Panama	Americas	70.4
58	United Kingdom	Europe	70.3
59	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	70.1
60	Guyana	Americas	69.6
61	Romania	Europe	68.6
62	North Macedonia	Europe	68.6
63	Greece	Europe	68.3
64	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	68.1
65	Germany	Europe	68.0
66	Belgium	Europe	68.0
67	Chile	Americas	68.0
68	Bulgaria	Europe	66.6
69	Albania	Europe	66.2
70	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	66.1
71	El Salvador	Americas	66.0
72	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	66.0
73	Spain	Europe	65.8
74	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	65.6
75	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	65.4
76	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	65.1
77	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	65.1
78	Nicaragua	Americas	64.7
79	Paraguay	Americas	64.6
80	United States	Americas	64.3
81	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	64.2
82	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	63.5
83	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	63.5
84	China	Asia-Pacific	63.3
85	Serbia	Europe	63.0
86	Argentina	Americas	63.0
87	Guatemala	Americas	62.3
88	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	62.0
89	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	62.0
90	France	Europe	61.8
91	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	61.5
92	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	61.5
93	Tajikistan	Eurasia	61.2
94	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	61.2
95	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	61.1
96	Kosovo	Europe	60.4
97	Moldova	Eurasia	60.0
98	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	59.9
99	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	59.9
100	Belarus	Eurasia	59.5
101	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	59.4
102	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	59.2
103	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	59.0
104	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	58.8
105	Ukraine	Eurasia	58.5
106	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	58.4
107	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	58.2
108	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	57.7
109	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	57.3
110	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	57.3
111	Brazil	Americas	57.0
112	Bolivia	Americas	56.6
113	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	56.4
114	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	56.3
115	Honduras	Americas	56.2
116	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	56.1
117	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	55.5
118	Georgia	Eurasia	55.4
119	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	55.4
120	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	55.3
121	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	54.7
122	Peru	Americas	54.7
123	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	54.2
124	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	54.0
125	Eritrea	Sub-Saharan Africa	53.8
126	Mexico	Americas	53.7
127	Ecuador	Americas	53.6
128	Armenia	Eurasia	53.5
129	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	53.4
130	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	52.7
131	India	Asia-Pacific	52.5
132	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	52.1
133	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	51.5
134	Russia	Eurasia	50.5
135	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	50.1
136	Turkey	Eurasia	49.3
137	Colombia	Americas	49.3
138	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	49.2
139	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	48.5
140	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	48.4
141	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	48.2
142	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	48.2
143	Haiti	Americas	45.4
144	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	42.7
145	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	42.4
146	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	42.2
147	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	40.9
148	South Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	40.4
149	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	39.3
150	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	38.9
151	Venezuela	Americas	36.2
152	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	35.9
153	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	35.8
154	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	35.5
155	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	34.6
156	Palestine	Middle East & North Africa	33.8
157	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	33.7
158	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	33.5
159	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	33.3
160	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	31.7
161	Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	31.3
162	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	30.6
163	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	30.6
164	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	30.2
165	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.7
166	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	28.2
167	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	27.2
168	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	25.4
169	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	23.3
170	Yemen	Middle East & North Africa	18.9

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — Worldwide Governance Indicators

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