The Global Peace Index is currently considered the most comprehensive effort to assess the peacefulness of nations around the world. Visions of Humanity, the group behind the GPI, releases an annual report assessing which nations are getting ahead, and which are falling behind. This year, the world has seen new nations inherit both the most peaceful and least peaceful slots.
The tiny, affluent island nation Iceland bumped another tiny, affluent island nation out of the first slot — last year’s most peaceful country, New Zealand. Following close behind was Japan, Scandinavian nations, and Canada. Where’s the US? Well, with our ongoing war, high incarceration rate, and often disruptive role in geopolitical affairs, we’ve landed at a sweet 82nd — making us far less peaceful than Malawi and Ghana, for example, and just a hair more peaceful than Bangladesh.
As for the least peaceful, Iraq moved out of the bottom slot for the first time since the survey began, to be replaced by the turbulent, nearly government-less state of Somalia. Here are the lists of both the top and bottom 10:
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