The Safest Countries on Earth, and the Most Dangerous..
The 2016 and 10th edition of the Annual Global Peace Index from by the global think tank Institute for Economics and Peace has assessed 163 nations across 23 indicators of peace under three categories:
- level of safety and security in society
- domestic and international conflict
- militarisation
The results, with the safest Country first, with rankings up to 5 as the most dangerous:
- Iceland 1.192
- Denmark 1.246
- Austria 1.278
- New Zealand 1.287
- Portugal 1.356
- Czech Republic 1.36
- Switzerland 1.37
- Canada 1.388
- Japan 1.395
- Slovenia 1.408
- Finland 1.429
- Ireland 1.433
- Bhutan 1.445
- Sweden 1.461
- Australia 1.465
- Germany 1.486
- Norway 1.5
- Belgium 1.528
- Hungary 1.534
- Singapore 1.535
- Netherlands 1.541
- Poland 1.557
- Mauritius 1.559
- Slovakia 1.603
- Spain 1.604
- Croatia 1.633
- Chile 1.635
- Botswana 1.639
- Bulgaria 1.646
- Malaysia 1.648
- Romania 1.649
- Latvia 1.68
- Costa Rica 1.699
- Qatar 1.716
- Uruguay 1.726
- Estonia 1.732
- Lithuania 1.735
- Madagascar 1.763
- Italy 1.774
- Zambia 1.783
- Taiwan 1.787
- Indonesia 1.799
- Sierra Leone 1.805
- Ghana 1.809
- Malawi 1.817
- France 1.829
- United Kingdom 1.83
- Serbia 1.834
- Panama 1.837
- Mongolia 1.838
- Kuwait 1.842
- Laos 1.852
- South Korea 1.858
- Albania 1.867
- Namibia 1.873
- Timor-Leste 1.879
- Montenegro 1.884
- Tanzania 1.899
- Vietnam 1.906
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.915
- United Arab Emirates 1.931
- Equatorial Guinea 1.94
- Lesotho 1.941
- Tunisia 1.949
- Moldova 1.953
- Togo 1.954
- Argentina 1.957
- Mozambique 1.963
- Nicaragua 1.975
- Senegal 1.978
- Cyprus 1.994
- Benin 1.998
- Liberia 1.998
- Oman 2.016
- Kazakhstan 2.019
- Ecuador 2.02
- Kosovo * 2.022
- Nepal 2.026
- Gabon 2.033
- Paraguay 2.037
- Bolivia 2.038
- Greece 2.044
- Bangladesh 2.045
- Trinidad and Tobago 2.056
- Georgia 2.057
- Cuba 2.057
- Peru 2.057
- Burkina Faso 2.063
- Haiti 2.066
- Swaziland 2.074
- Morocco 2.086
- Gambia 2.091
- Jamaica 2.091
- Macedonia 2.092
- Guyana 2.105
- Jordan 2.127
- Sri Lanka 2.133
- Angola 2.14
- Papua New Guinea 2.143
- Dominican Republic 2.143
- Uganda 2.148
- Guinea 2.148
- United States 2.154
- Cambodia 2.161
- Brazil 2.176
- Belarus 2.202
- Turkmenistan 2.202
- Algeria 2.213
- Uzbekistan 2.216
- Armenia 2.218
- Honduras 2.237
- El Salvador 2.237
- Niger 2.239
- Republic of the Congo 2.249
- Myanmar 2.256
- Guinea-Bissau 2.264
- Guatemala 2.27
- Ivory Coast 2.279
- Ethiopia 2.284
- China 2.288
- Djibouti 2.292
- Tajikistan 2.293
- Mauritania 2.295
- Kyrgyzstan 2.294
- Thailand 2.312
- South Africa 2.316
- Zimbabwe 2.322
- Rwanda 2.323
- Saudi Arabia 2.338
- Cameroon 2.356
- Kenya 2.379
- Bahrain 2.398
- Iran 2.411
- Azerbaijan 2.45
- Eritrea 2.46
- Chad 2.464
- Mali 2.489
- Burundi 2.5
- Philippines 2.511
- Mexico 2.557
- India 2.566
- Egypt 2.574
- Venezuela 2.651
- Israel 2.656
- Turkey 2.71
- Lebanon 2.752
- Colombia 2.764
- Palestine 2.832
- Nigeria 2.877
- North Korea 2.944
- Russia 3.079
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 3.112
- Pakistan 3.145
- Libya 3.2
- Sudan 3.269
- Ukraine 3.287
- Central African Republic 3.354
- Yemen 3.399
- Somalia 3.414
- Afghanistan 3.538
- Iraq 3.57
- South Sudan 3.593
- Syria 3.806
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