The Global Peace Index for 2014 has been announced by the Institute for Economics and Peace.
To calculate how peaceful a country is, the GPI looks at 22 different indicators ... the number of Brahma Kumaris mega VIP programmes not included. Each of the different indicators is then weighted according to importance and they can be broken down into three broad sections listed below (with examples):
Ongoing domestic and international conflict
To calculate how peaceful a country is, the GPI looks at 22 different indicators ... the number of Brahma Kumaris mega VIP programmes not included. Each of the different indicators is then weighted according to importance and they can be broken down into three broad sections listed below (with examples):
Ongoing domestic and international conflict
- Number of external and internal conflicts fought
Number of deaths from organised conflict
Level of organised conflict
- Level of perceived criminality in society
Political terror scale
Number of homicides per 100,000 people
Number of internal security officers and police per 100,000 people
- Nuclear and heavy weapons capability
Ease of access to small arms and light weapons
Volume of transfers of major conventional weapons as recipients (imports) per 100,000 people
- 1 Iceland 1.19
2 Denmark 1.19
3 Austria 1.2
4 New Zealand 1.24
5 Switzerland 1.26
6 Finland 1.3
7 Canada 1.31
8 Japan 1.32
9 Belgium 1.35
10 Norway 1.37
143 India 2.57