In a world of shifting power dynamics, crises, conflicts, and instability are hitting hardest in 61 contexts identified with high and extreme fragility.
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States of Fragility 2025 marks 25 years of the OECD’s work on fragility, a period during which it has constantly sought to challenge thinking and practice for effective humanitarian, development and peace, policy and implementation. This year’s report explores how multidimensional fragility lies at the heart of geopolitical shifts that are disrupting long-standing global power balances. This creates both challenges and opportunities, demanding rapid adaptation and strategic collaboration across humanitarian, development, and peace sectors.
The report examines the state of fragility in 2025, its influence on global trends, and how it is experienced by the 2 billion people living in these fragile contexts—home to 25% of the world’s population but 72% of those in extreme poverty. As fragility reshapes global realities, staying focused on those furthest behind is more urgent than ever, not only as a moral imperative but as a strategic necessity.
