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Quantifying Peace: The Most Peaceful Nations

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We know that the USA is very warlike, that Somalia and Yemen are way up there, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan too. But which nations are the most peaceful, and what parameters would be used to assess them?

it ends up that there is a listing of more and less peaceful nations. It's called the Global Peace Index, produced annually by the I nstitute for Economics and Peace.
It's been scoring nations based on a number of criteria since 2007.

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Here's the list of criteria, or "indicators" as the Index refers to them:
1 Number of external and internal conflicts fought

2 Number of deaths from organised conflict (external)

3 Number of deaths from organised conflict (internal)

4 Level of organised conflict (internal)

5 Relations with neighbouring countries

6 Level of perceived criminality in society

7 Number of refugees and displaced persons as percentage of population

8 Political instability

9 Terrorist activity

10 Political terror scale

11 Number of homicides per 100,000 people

12 Level of violent crime

13 Likelihood of violent demonstrations

14 Number of jailed persons per 100,000 people

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