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Global Peace Index

                                      

November 22, 2007

 

Peace and sustainability are the cornerstones of humanity's survival in the 21st century.

 

Peace is a powerful concept. However, the notion of peace, and its value in the world economy, is poorly understood. Historically, peace has been seen as something won in war, or else as an altruistic ideal. There are competing definitions of peace, and most research into peace is, in fact, the study of violent conflict.

 

The Economist Intelligence Unit, in conjunction with an international team of academics and peace experts, has compiled an innovative new Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 121 nations according to their relative peacefulness. The index is composed of 24 indicators and has been tested against a range of potential "drivers" or determinants of peace - including levels of democracy and transparency, education and material well being.

 

The index is a groundbreaking milestone in the study of peace. It is the first time that an index has been created that ranks the nations of the world by their peacefulness and identified some of the drivers of that peace. 121 countries have been ranked by their "absence of violence", using metrics that combine both internal and external factors. Most people understand the absence of violence as an indicator of peace. This definition also allows for the measuring of peacefulness within, as well as between, nations.

 

Peace index scores from 1 to 5 where 1=most peaceful.

 

Indicators

 

Level of distrust in other citizens

Number of internal security officers and police per 100,000 people

Number of homicides per 100,000 people

Number of jailed population per 100,000 people

Ease of access to weapons of minor destruction

Level of organized conflict (internal)

Likelihood of violent demonstrations

Level of violent crime

Political instability

Respect for human rights

Volume of transfers of major conventional weapons, as recipient (Imports) per 100,000 people

Potential for terrorist acts

Number of deaths from organized conflict (internal)

Military expenditure as a percentage of GDP

Number of armed services personnel per 100,000 people

UN Deployments 2006-07 (percentage of total forces)

Non-UN Deployments 2006-07 (percentage of total forces)

Aggregate number of heavy weapons per 100,000 people

Volume of transfers of major conventional weapons as supplier (exports) per 100,000 people

Military capability/sophistication

Number of displaced people as a percentage of the population

Relations with neighboring countries

Number of external and internal conflicts fought: 2000-05

Estimated number of deaths from organized conflict (external)

 

Drivers

 

democracy and transparency

 

Political Democracy Index

Electoral process

Functioning of government

Political participation

Political culture

Civil liberties

Corruption perceptions (CPI score: 10 = highly clean, 0 = highly corrupt)

Women in parliament (as a percentage of the total number of representatives in the lower house)

Freedom of the press

 

international openness

 

Exports + Imports % of GDP

Foreign Direct Investment (flow) % of GDP

Number of visitors as % of domestic population

Net Migration (% of total population)

 

demographics

 

15-34 year old males as a % of total population

Gender ratio of population: women/men

 

education

 

The extent of regional integration

 

culture

 

Current education spending (% of GDP)

Primary school enrolment ratio (% Net)

Secondary school enrolment ratio (% Net)

Higher education enrolment (% Gross)

Mean years of schooling

Adult literacy rate (% of pop over 15)

 

material well-being

 

Hostility to foreigners/private property

Importance of religion in national life

Willingness to fight

 

other

 

Nominal GDP (US$PPP bn)

Nominal GDP (US$bn)

GDP per capita

Gini-coefficient

Unemployment %

Life expectancy

Infant mortality per 1,000 live births

Total Population (millions)

 

Number of paramilitary personnel per 100,000 people 

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