Everything you need to write about The Cracks Index

In short: what The Cracks Index measures

The Cracks Index is an open world ranking of how well countries catch people before they fall through the social safety net. The score rests on six public indicators, from problem debt to unmet youth care. Each country gets one composite score on a scale of 0 to 100, where lower is better. The index uses no personal data. Every figure is a public country-level aggregate.

The index is built by Fynqo and published as a living v0. The data, the weighting and the calculation are public, so anyone can recompute the ranking.

The figures at a glance

Countries ranked

40

Public indicators

6

Score scale

0 to 100, lower is better

Snapshot

2026-05-18 · v1-20260518

Ranked highest

🇳🇴 Norway 0.1

Ranked lowest

🇨🇴 Colombia 97.8

Sources

Eurostat, OECD, World Bank, CBS StatLine

Personal data

None, public aggregates only

How the score is built

For each country, six public aggregates are gathered, rescaled to 0 to 100, weighted and combined into one score. The full explanation, with the weights and the sources, lives on the methodology page.

Read the full methodology →

Free to use, with attribution

The Cracks Index dataset is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0). You may reuse, redistribute and build on the data, including commercially, as long as you credit Fynqo. When citing it, use this line:

Download the open data

The full dataset is available as a static file. The JSON holds the raw snapshot with every score, indicator and fix. The CSV is a flat table with one row per country, handy for a spreadsheet or a quick chart.