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What Country is Ranked the Most Peaceful?

posted by n1 on Sunday August 10 2014, @03:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the no,-your-guess-wasn't-even-close dept.

gewg_ writes:

AlterNet reports:

"We are living in the most peaceful century in human history; however, the 2014 Global Peace Index shows that the last seven years has shown a notable deterioration in levels of peace."

So begins this year's peace index [script heavy site], an annual report released by the nonprofit Institute for Economics and Peace. The study ranks 162 countries (covering 99.6% of the world's population) according to a complex set of indicators that gauge the absence of violence and political instability. These include a nation's level of military expenditure, its relations with neighboring countries and the percentage of the population held in prisons.

Check out this infographic [pdf] to see which countries are the most and least peaceful, and access the IEP's full report here [pdf].

Most peaceful countries
1. Iceland
2. Denmark
3. Austria
4. New Zealand
5. Switzerland
6. Finland
7. Canada
8. Japan
9. Belgium
10. Norway

Least peaceful countries
1. Syria
2. Afghanistan
3. South Sudan
4. Iraq
5. Somalia
6. Sudan
7. Central African Republic
8. Democratic Republic of the Congo
9. Pakistan
10. North Korea
 
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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 10 2014, @05:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 10 2014, @05:36PM (#79699)

    Where's Vatican City and similar on the rankings?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Vatican_City [wikipedia.org]

    p.s. AFAIK the child abuse cases were mostly out of Vatican City.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday August 10 2014, @06:08PM

    by c0lo (156) on Sunday August 10 2014, @06:08PM (#79712) Journal

    p.s. AFAIK the child abuse cases were mostly out of Vatican City.

    Those secretive bastards

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  • (Score: 1) by Open4D on Wednesday August 13 2014, @03:49PM

    by Open4D (371) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @03:49PM (#80855) Journal

    Vatican: Former Ambassador To Dominican Republic Covered By Diplomatic Immunity In Abuse Investigation - http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/01/11/vatican-former-ambassador-to-dominican-republic-covered-by-diplomatic-immunity/ [foxnews.com]