Over the past couple of years, the world has shifted, moving through a pandemic, into a global economic crisis and now into the Ukraine war. So it can be helpful for travelers to know just how safe a country is before they visit.
The Institute for Economics and Peace conducts an annual ranking of which countries in the world are the safest, called the Global Peace Index. The 2020 report showed that the world was less peaceful than it was the year before, due to the pandemic, and the most recent report for 2021 shows that the world is still deteriorating in terms of global peacefulness, if only by 0.07%–it is the ninth year that global peace has deteriorated.
There are several key takeaways:
- 8 out of the top 10 safest countries in the world are in Europe–this is the most European countries to ever be in the top ten.
- Iceland is still at the top, being the most peaceful place on the planet since 2008–unsurprisingly, Iceland also ranks third in the world for being the happiest country. New Zealand, Denmark, Portugal, and Slovenia rounded out the top five safest countries in 2021. Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Czech Republic and Canada round out the top ten safest countries.
- The largest regional deterioration reported was in North America, where growing civil unrest led to more violent demonstrations. The U.S. stands at number 122, one place down from the previous two years. (The U.K. is at number 33).
- The gap between the most peaceful and least peaceful countries continues to grow.
- Afghanistan is the least peaceful country in the world for the fourth consecutive year, with Yemen, Syria, South Sudan, and Iraq rounding out the bottom five.
The research project examines 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators and measures the state of peace across three domains:
- the level of Societal Safety and Security;
- the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; and
- the degree of Militarisation.
Examples of these indicators are incarceration rates, homicide rates, deaths from internal conflict, perceptions of criminality, etc with an average taken for an overall score—a country is safer with a lower score.
The report makes it clear that the impact of Covid-19 is still not clear on global peace–there were more protests and demonstrations about lockdowns, coupled with growing unease over the global economy, which in turn led to more civil unrest and political instability–as Condé Nast reported, there were at least 158 countries that recorded one or more violent incidents directly related to the pandemic from 2020-2021. (Over 5,000 pandemic-related violent events were recorded during this time).
The report says that “the conflicts and crises that emerged in the past decade have begun to abate, only to be replaced with a new wave of tension and uncertainty as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and rising tensions between many of the major powers.”
In the wake of the Ukraine war, it only remains to be seen what might happen to these high European scores for next year’s report.
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