Fragility increased worldwide from 2020 to 2021, reaching a ten-year high in extremely fragile contexts
Deaths from violent conflict increased sharply from 2020 to 2021 in fragile contexts, reversing a declining trend
Though fragility is global, it is concentrated in the 60 fragile contexts across its six dimensions
Fragility increased systematically in fragile contexts from 2019 to 2021 across all six dimensions
Across dimensions at the context level, there were significant oscillations in fragility from 2019 to 2021 even as fragility increased on average in extremely fragile contexts
The OECD’s multidimensional fragility framework
Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals varies considerably, but fragile contexts overall are at risk of being left behind
Data are missing in fragile contexts for more than 50% of Sustainable Development Goal indicators across nine goals
The percentage of people who felt less safe in 2019 than they did in 2014 varies across fragile contexts, underscoring that fragility and conflict, while related, are not synonymous
Conflict and fragility