The map displays total fragility data at province level scale using the first administrative division polygon files from the Global Administrative Areas database version 2.8. The map retains the five fragility categories seen in the total fragility measure, classifying areas as having low, some, moderate, high, or highest fragility. To help achieve this study’s goal of identifying the intersection of fragility and climate risks globally, this study develops a new fragility measure. Developing a new measure specifically for this purpose provides a comprehensive fragility measure while avoiding use of existing fragility measures that include environmental indicators and thus should not be overlaid on climate hazards. This study uses open-source data to create a measure of state fragility that is similar in composition and outcome to USAID’s internal methods and framework for analyzing fragility.11 Like USAID’s internal measure, the new measure assesses fragility in state effectiveness and legitimacy in four key spheres: political, security, economic, and social. This is based on an understanding of fragility as being rooted in poor state capacity and poor state-society relationships, both of which can contribute to instability. Poor state capacity and state-society relationships can lead to and perpetuate other forms of overt instability, including conflict or an inability to address and mitigate stresses such as a changing environment, difficult global financial situations, or conflict in neighboring states. This <a href="https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00TBFH.pdf"target=_blank>document</a> outlines the indicators, data sources, and process used to assess countries’ relative state capacity and state-society relationship on a global scale. EPSG:3857