Highlights from the 2025 FM Resilience Index
In an era marked by unprecedented volatility, the 2025 FM Resilience Index offers insights to help you see what others don’t, allowing you to address a growing spectrum of risks.
The index, now in its 12th year, is based on 18 resilience factors applied to 130 countries and territories. Factors include macro risks, such as political risk and inflation, and physical risks, such as fire risk quality and climate exposure.
This year, the index reflects the heavy toll of global conflict, the increasing uncertainty wrought by technological innovation and uneven progress on combatting inflation.
But signs of progress and markers of success emerge from the index, too:
- Denmark, ranked the most resilient country in the world in 2024, remained so in 2025 thanks to its strong education system, high productivity and improving cybersecurity.
- Inflation finally began to loosen its grip across much of Europe. Eight of the top 10 countries moving up the ranks this year were in Europe. Some of the bigger European economies, such as the United Kingdom, France and Germany, also rose in the ranks for inflation. Belgium was a European outlier, dropping significantly in the inflation ranking from 2024 to 2025 (but remaining in the top 10). Russia also continued to struggle with inflation, as did some countries in the Americas, notably Mexico and Brazil.
- Some countries took steps to address physical risks like fire. Ireland, for example, updated its building codes to require sprinklers in more types of buildings, and saw its fire risk improve as a result. Because Ireland was already highly ranked overall, this had little impact on its overall score—even as it tangibly made the country more resilient.
Taken together, the index shows that while risks abound, so do opportunities for resilience.
The most resilient country in the world in the 2025 FM Resilience Index was Denmark, followed by Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland, Singapore, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Belgium, and the United States central region.
The biggest risers from 2021 to 2025 were Ghana, Nigeria and Rwanda. The biggest fallers in that period were Lebanon, Argentina, Armenia and Russia.