SOMALIA

Poverty and Economic Decline:

Nearly 30,000 children under the age of 5 were estimated to have died in a 90-day period during the height of Somalia's famine last summer.

Refugees:

Sixteen percent of Somalia's population, about 1.5 million people, was internally displaced in 2011, the largest percentage of any country.

Public Services:

In 2012, just 7 percent of Somalia's rural population had adequate access to improved water sources such as household connections, public standpipes, and protected wells or springs

Legitimacy of the State:

Transparency International ranked Somalia the world's most corrupt country in 2011.

Human Rights:

There is no law against spousal rape in Somalia, and an estimated 98 percent of girls undergo genital mutilation.

Security Forces:

The U.S. State Department's 2011 human rights report describes the Somali police as "generally ineffective," as well as "underpaid and corrupt."

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