GLOBAL PEACE INDEX (GPI) 2021

Methodology

• The GPI covers 99.7 per cent of the world’s population, using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators and measures the state of peace across three domains:
  • the level of Societal Safety and Security,
    
    
  • the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict, and
    
    
  • the degree of Militarisation.
    
    
  
  
  

Findings

• India ranked 135/163 with an improvement of 2 ranks.
  
  
• Iceland remains the most peaceful country in the world, a position it has held since 2008.
  
  
• Afghanistan is the least peaceful country in the world for the fourth consecutive year, followed by Yemen, Syria, South Sudan, and Iraq.