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AlterNet reports:
Most peaceful countries"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].
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
(Score: 1) by arslan on Sunday August 10 2014, @10:41PM
Think in terms of peacefulness to the world population. I was gonna comment about a few 3rd world countries I've lived in as well, but then realized, well for whatever crime rate and problems that country has, it is actually pretty peaceful at the world stage or at least its immediate surrounding regional area. So this Index really is a Global Index. Most countries have its own internal horror stories, loonies and problems, its whether that spills over its borders, which is what this seems to try to indicate. From that perspective it looks pretty accurate.