I'm a little 'iffy' about some of these stats.
How the hell is Ireland rated 23rd for political stability?
It's sailed through a massive economic crisis electing totally sane governments without any instability at all.
It has no far right parties rising, no serious far left and tends to vote for pretty bland centrist politics using the longest established form of proportional representation in existence. The only major political protests were over the introduction of water charges and they were extremely mild mannered compared to what you see almost every weekend in France.
Meanwhile the UK is ranked 4th?!?!
It's just voted to leave the EU without any plan at all based on jingoism largely.
Both major political parties fell apart.
Scotland is actively threatening to leave and split the country.
and Northern Ireland (which *is* fully part of the UK although many people conveniently forget that when they want to offload its issues onto Ireland which is actually a different country) had a violent conflict which was the closest thing to a civil war in Western Europe running from the 1960s right into the 2000s and is still rather unstable today.
I suppose though to some business and banking minds, the UK is the square mile, Belgravia, Chelsea (and for those slumping it Kensington) and maybe the nicer bits of the Home Counties, which is generally very stable.
Meanwhile the US is ranked 9th for political stability.
So clearly Federal Government shut downs and the possibility of electing Trump in November are indicators of total stability.
Did nobody notice that the US federal structures basically stopped for 16 days in 2013 - Even NASA was off line.