The Global Peace Index(GPI)is the world’s leading measure of national peacefulness. Now in its eighth year, it ranks 162 nations according to their ‘absence of violence’
The GPI is developed by Institute for Economics and Peace(IEP)- headquartered in Sydney,Australia with a branch in New York and Oxford
under the guidance of an international panel of independent experts with data collated and calculated by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
It is composed of 22 indicators, ranging from a nation’s level of military expenditure to its relations with neighbouring countries and the percentage of prison population
The data is sourced from a wide range of respected sources, including the International Institute of Strategic Studies, The World Bank, various UN Agencies, peace institutes and the EIU. The index has been tested against a range of potential “drivers” or determinants of peace—including levels of democracy and transparency, education and national wellbeing.
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