Tables and Graphs

1. Fragility in an age of crises

Infographic 1.1. The OECD’s multidimensional fragility framework Infographic 1.2. Conflict and fragility Infographic 1.3. Gender inequality and fragility Infographic 1.4. COVID-19 in fragile contexts Infographic 1.5. Inequality and fragility Infographic 1.6. Forced displacement, migration and fragility

Figure 1.1. Fragility increased worldwide from 2020 to 2021, reaching a ten-year high in extremely fragile contexts Figure 1.2. Deaths from violent conflict increased sharply from 2020 to 2021 in fragile contexts, reversing a declining trend Figure 1.3. Though fragility is global, it is concentrated in the 60 fragile contexts across its six dimensions Figure 1.4. Fragility increased systematically in fragile contexts from 2019 to 2021 across all six dimensions Figure 1.5. 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 Figure 1.6. Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals varies considerably, but fragile contexts overall are at risk of being left behind Figure 1.7. Data are missing in fragile contexts for more than 50% of Sustainable Development Goal indicators across nine goals Figure 1.8. 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 Figure 1.9. Volatile protest events from 2019 to 2022 reflect, in part, underlying fragilities and reactions to COVID-19 movement restrictions Figure 1.10. Fragility is associated with coup events and particularly so in recent years Figure 1.11. In fragile contexts, the population is expected to increase significantly more than in the rest of the world Figure 1.12. By 2030, 86% of the world’s extreme poor are projected to live in fragile contexts, with extremely fragile contexts accounting for one out of every three people in extreme poverty Figure 1.13. The gender digital divide within fragile contexts is significant, and men have greater access to the Internet than women in most contexts for which data are available Figure 1.14. In the majority of fragile contexts, more than 60% of the population is unable to afford a healthy diet Figure 1.15. Fragile contexts generate forced displacement and host refugees and internally displaced persons

2. The state of responses to crises and fragility

Infographic 2.1. Official development assistance to fragile contexts Infographic 2.2. Economic and financial risks in fragile contexts Infographic 2.3. Climate and environmental fragility

Figure 2.1. The recent surge of official development assistance to fragile contexts, and particularly extremely fragile contexts, is targeted towards the humanitarian pillar of the triple nexus Figure 2.2. Low tax-to-GDP ratios are linked to fragility Figure 2.3. Fragility is not limited to low-income economies Figure 2.4. Foreign direct investment is highly variable in fragile contexts, with significant outflows between 2011 and 2020 Figure 2.5. Remittances still make up a significant proportion of GDP for some fragile contexts Figure 2.6. Debt-to-gross national income ratios are increasing towards pre-HIPC levels Figure 2.7. DAC members’ official development assistance (across the triple nexus) is not associated with levels of fragility

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