State Fragility

When states become fragile, many challenges ensue for international peace, development and sustainability efforts. State fragility, however, appears in different forms.

The  online data visualisation Constellations of State Fragility allows policy makers, researchers and practitioners to see how states of the world scored in the period from 2005 in terms of their capacity, authority and legitimacy. Building on these three core functions of the state, Constellations of State Fragility distinguishes between eight  different types of fragility.

With the online data visualisatiob Constellations of State Fragility, users can visually explore the worldwide constellations of fragility, download graphs and maps, compare countries’ capacity, authority and legitimacy scores and access data for 10 underlying indicators, such as child mortality or a state’s monopoly of violence.

The database and online tool has been developed within the research department Transformation of political (dis-)order at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and with financial support from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.