REPORT
Global uncertainty
PEACE
Good for business
Economic performance and peace are mutually reinforcing: better economic performance assists in building peace, and vice versa.
The global state of peace The 2018 Global Peace Index (GPI) shows the world is less peaceful today than at any time in the last decade. For a country to move up the ranking, there must have been improvements across a broad range of pillars, whereas a fall could be triggered by just a few factors,
Score Change
Rank Country
Score Change
Rank Country
Score Change
1096
-
79. GREECE
2020
-
148. NIGERIA
2873
+1
NEW ZEALAND
1192
-
80. BURKINA FASO
2029
+14
149. TURKEY
2898
-1
3.
AUSTRIA
1274
+1
81. CUBA
2037
+8
4.
PORTUGAL
1318
-1
82. GUYANA
2043
-
83. ANGOLA
2048
+9
84. NEPAL
2053
+4
86. MOZAMBIQUE
2056
-6
87. MACEDONIA (FYR) 2058
+16
5.
DENMARK
1353
-
6.
CANADA
1372
-
7.
CZECH REPUBLIC 1381
8.
SINGAPORE
1382
9.
JAPAN
+3
1391
-1
10. IRELAND
1393
+2
14. SWEDEN
1502
+3
88. HAITI
2064
-1
90. JAMAICA
2068
+3
122. MYANMAR
2302
-15
123. KENYA
15. FINLAND
1506
2354
+3
16. NORWAY
1519
-
124. ZIMBABWE
2326
-1
17. GERMANY
1531
-
125. SOUTH AFRICA
2328
-1
18. HUNGARY
1531
-2
127. MAURITANIA
2355
-
19. BHUTAN
1545
+5
128. NIGER
2359
-2
20. MAURITIUS
1548
-1
129. SAUDI ARABIA
2417
+1
21. BELGIUM
1560
-
130. BAHRAIN
2437
+2
22. SLOVAKIA
1568
+3
131. IRAN
2439
-2
23. NETHERLANDS
1574
-1
132. AZERBAIJAN
2454
+2
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VERY LOW
ICELAND
2.
MEDIUM
1.
LOW
HIGH
VERY HIGH
Rank Country
such as political unrest. Low peace countries are not necessarily places to avoid, provided they are making improvements on the pillars supporting peace. Of 163 countries ranked, we highlight 10 countries from each block, to give a snapshot of the global state of peace.
150. NORTH KOREA
2950
-
151. PAKISTAN
3079
+1
152. UKRAINE
3113
+2
153. SUDAN
3155
+2
154. RUSSIA
3160
-1
157. LIBYA
3262
+1
158. YEMEN
3305
-1
159. SOMALIA
3367
-
source: Business & Peace 2018 and Global Peace Index 2018, shared as part of the IESE Global Leadership Series “Peace: A Macroeconomic Driver,” featuring Steve Killelea, entrepreneur and founder of the Institute for Economics and Peace. Go to http://visionofhumanity.org/ indexes/global-peace-index/