The Most Peaceful Countries in the World
Aug 28
It is beneficial that we know the most peaceful countries in the world. Good thing The Institute of Economics and Peace released their 2015 Global Peace Index. The report included 162 countries and ranked them according to different characteristics like political terror, crime levels weapons import and the like.
Countries are scored based on the characteristics. The scores go from 1 to 5 with 1 as the highest. Here is the list:
- Iceland: Iceland is the most peaceful country of them all with a score of 1.148.
- Denmark: Iceland is followed by Denmark with a score of 1.150.
- Austria: The third most peaceful country is Austria with a score of 1.198.
- New Zealand: New Zealand is the fourth peaceful country with a score of 1.221.
- Switzerland: Switzerland is the fifth peaceful country with a score of 1.275.
- Finland: Finland is the sixth peaceful country with a score of 1.277.
- Canada: Finland is followed by Canada with a score of 1.287.
- Japan: Japan is the eighth most peaceful country with a score of 1.322.
- Australia: The ninth most peaceful country went to Australia with a score of 1.329.
- Czech Republic: The tenth most peaceful country went to Czech Republic with a score of 1.341.
- Portugal: Portugal is the eleventh most peaceful country with a score of 1.344.
- Ireland: The twelfth most peaceful country went to Ireland with a score of 1.354.
- Sweden: Sweden is at number thirteen with a score of 1.360.
- Belgium: Belgium is the fourteenth most peaceful country with a score of 1.368.
- Slovenia: Slovenia is the fifteenth most peaceful country with a score of 1.378.
The good news is that Singapore is part of the Global Peace Index. Singapore is at number 24 with a score of 1.490.
