Torn by terror attacks and exposed to economic crisis, Pakistan now stands among top failed states, according to a table compiled by Foreign Policy Journal. Pakistan takes the tenth place in the index, last year it was placed ninth.

The journal publishes this index every year and it is jointly researched by Fund for Peace, a research organization.

Some of the factors considered while compiling the list are demographic pressure, refugees/internally displaced persons (IDPs), group grievance, uneven development, economic decline, delegitimization of the state, public service, human rights, factionalized elites and external intervention.

The ten countries that feature in the lis,t according to their position are: Somalia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Guinea and Pakistan.

India is ranked 87 out of 177 countries that were under study. In the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka is placed at 12, Bangladesh at 19 and Nepal at 25.

The last ten countries on the list are Norway, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, Denmark, New Zealand, Australia and The Netherlands.