Failed States Index

http://www.fundforpeace.org/programs/fsi/fsindex.php

A joint project of the Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy Magazine, this index is a ranking of the worst of the worst for political instability. War-torn Ivory Coast is, not surprisingly, the world's top disaster story. Iraq is ranked fourth from the bottom. Data on sub-indices (Mounting Demographic Pressures, Criminalization of the State, Chronic and Sustained Human Flight) are also available. The methodology is a little strange, based on combing newspapers and magazines for certain keywords. The Foreign Policy Magazine article introducing the index is available here.