Global Peace Index: The World's Friendly Countries
The Institute of Economics and Peace has prepared a rating of peace-loving states of our planet.
Russia ranked among the ten least friendly countries and ranked 154th according to the Global Peace Index.
Icelandic belongs to the first place in the ranking, the second is New Zealand, “bronze” earned Austria. Top ten most peaceful states: PortugalDenmark, Canada, Czech Republic. SingaporeJapan, Ireland.
Syria was at the bottom of the list and ranked 163. Top ten worst: AfghanistanSouth Sudan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Congo and the Central African Republic.
Ukraine From the previous year, it was able to climb two lines and is located at 152 positions.
The rating was prepared on the basis of 23 indicators, including the number of external and internal wars, relations with neighbors, the stability of the political system, the percentage of military spending as a share of GDP, the import/export of weapons, the availability of weapons, the level of distrust between citizens. The Global Peace Index was first calculated in 2007.