France Riskier for Businesses Disruption Than Afghanistan, Says Civil Unrest Index

France is no longer France, Donald Trump said provocatively after the nation came under repeated terrorist attack. Now a new report casts the country as riskier for disrupting businesses than many developing nations with a history of violence and upheaval.

London-based risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft has put together a Civil Unrest Index that ranks almost 200 countries in terms of their exposure to protests, mass demonstrations, ethnic or religious violence. France ranks 16th, just behind Argentina and barely in front of Afghanistan and Mali, a former colony. It is the only European country in the top 20 and considered "high risk." Greece, which almost got the boot from the euro, came in 25th. Germany and the U.K. are still considered "low risk."