Belarus Together With Sudan And Venezuela Recognized As The Riskiest Country For Investments

• 1.04.2026, 9:12

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Belarus, Lebanon, Sudan and Venezuela lead the global ranking of the world's riskiest markets in 2026. This is written by Thinktanks.by with reference to the data of visualcapitalist.

The visualcapitalist project made a map based on the assessments of New York University professor Aswat Damodaran to illustrate the markets of countries with the highest risks for investors.

Damodaran took into account the credit rating of each country and additional interest rate to assess the risks. At the last stage, the developed market risk premium was added to these calculations (the developed market risk premium, Equity Risk Premium, ERP, is the additional return that investors expect to receive when investing in equities of developed countries, such as the US, Europe, compared to risk-free assets, usually government bonds).

As a result, the top 4 countries are Belarus, Lebanon, Sudan and Venezuela with a 30.9% index. In these countries the risks for investors are assessed much higher than in the rest of the world.

In second place were Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen with a rate of 19.8%.

The third position was occupied by Ecuador, Haiti, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and Somalia with a rate of 17.2%.

The safest countries include Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, Sweden and the Netherlands, where the risk is estimated at 4.2%.

Risks in Belarus' neighboring countries are estimated as follows:

Russia: 8.1%;

Latvia: 5.8%;

Lithuania: 5.3%;

Poland: 5.3%.