The Global Peace Index 2015

The Global Peace Index (GPI) is the world’s leading measure of national peacefulness. Now in its eighth year, it ranks 162 nations according to their ‘absence of violence’. The GPI is developed by the Institute for Economics & Peace under the guidance of an international panel of independent experts with data partly collated and calculated by the Economist Intelligence Unit. It is composed of 22 indicators, ranging from a nation’s level of military expenditure to its relations with neighbouring countries and the percentage of prison population.

The 2015 update of the GPI was presented by Mr. Steve Killelea, Executive Chairman of the Institute for Economics & Peace.