Question: India ranked at which of the following position in Global Peace Index (GPI)-2016 released by London based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)?
(a) 142nd
(b) 141st
(c) 143rd
(d) 145th
Ans.(b)
Related facts:
- On 8th June 2016 London based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) released the Global Peace Index (GPI)-2016.
- This was the 10th edition of the index.
- The central theme of the 2016 Global Peace Index is “Ten Years of Measuring Peace”.
- The index has ranked total 163 countries according to their level of peace.
- The GPI covers more than 99.7 per cent of the global population.
- The index gauges on domestic and international conflicts, safety and security in the society.
- The index also looks into the degree of militarisation in 163 countries by taking into account 23 indicators.
- The tenth anniversary report presents the most comprehensive analysis on the trends in peace and violence over the last decade.
- The 2016 edition expands its coverage by including Palestine for the first time.
- Over the past year, 81 countries improved their ranking in peacefulness, while 79 countries deteriorated.
- The average deterioration was larger than the average improvement, contributing to the global drop in score.
- Europe is regarded as the most peaceful region in the world although its average score deteriorated in this year’s report in the wake of terrorism incidents in Paris and Brussels.
- The economic impact of violence on the global economy in 2015 was $13.6 trillion in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
- Iceland with the minimum score of 1.192 has been ranked as the most peaceful country for the consecutive ninth time while Syria with the maximum score of 3.806 has been named as the least peaceful, followed by 162nd South Sudan (Score -3.593), 161st – Iraq (Score -3.570), 160th -Afghanistan (Score 3.538), 159th – Somalia (Score -3.414) 158th Yemen (score -3.399).
- It may be recalled that Iceland was not include in the first list of Global Peace Index (GPI)-2007.
- Denmark (score 1.246) and Austria (score 1.278) are ranked at number 2nd and 3rd position respectively.
- India is ranked as the 141st country in the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2016 and is ranked fifth out of the seven countries in the South Asian region.
- Last year (2015) India’s rank was 143rd.
- In South Asia, Bhutan was ranked best (13th overall rank), while India was fifth followed by Pakistan at sixth (overall 153rd) and Afghanistan at sixth place (overall 160th).
- Among India’s neighbours Bhutan is ranked 13th (score -1.445), Nepal 78th (score -2.026), Bangladesh 83rd (score -2.045), Sri Lanka 97th (score-2.133), Pakistan 153rd (score-3.145) and Afghanistan 160th (score-3.538).
- The ranking of some other major countries is as follows: South Africa 126th (score -2.316), Brazil 105th (score -2.176), the United States 103rd (Score -2.154), the United Kingdom 47th (score -1.830), Japan, the 9th (score -1.395) and China 120th (score -2.288).
- Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is an independent international think tank dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable and tangible measure of human well-being and progress.
Reference:
http://static.visionofhumanity.org/sites/default/files/GPI%202016%20Report_2.pdf
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/#/page/our-gpi-findings