{"id":27122,"date":"2017-06-15T07:45:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T07:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=27122"},"modified":"2017-06-15T07:45:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T07:45:55","slug":"global-peace-index-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/global-peace-index-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Peace Index-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question- India\u2019s ranking in the &#8216;Global Peace Index -2017&#8217; is\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 142nd<br \/>\n(b) 137th<br \/>\n(c) 144th<br \/>\n(d) 125th<br \/>\n<strong>Ans :(b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Related facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On June 1, 2017, the 11th edition of the &#8216;Global Peace Index-2017&#8217; was released by the London-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).<\/li>\n<li>Based on 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators, Global Peace Index measures the level of peace in 163 countries of the world.<\/li>\n<li>These 23 indicators can be classified under three broad subjects-<br \/>\n(I) Safety and protection level in society<br \/>\n(Ii) Expansion of domestic and international conflicts and<br \/>\n(iii) Militarization.<\/li>\n<li>Global Peace Index 2017 shows that during the last one year, the level of peace has increased in 93 countries. While the level of peace has declined in 68 countries.<\/li>\n<li>According to the latest index, North America is currently the Most Peace Full Region in the world.<\/li>\n<li>According to the report, the global economy suffered a total loss of $ 14.3 trillion due to violence in the year 2016. This amount is 12.6 percent of the global GDP.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Global Peace Index-2017, Iceland is the world&#8217;s most peaceful country for the 10th time with a minimum score of 1.111 among 163 countries while Syria is the most troubled country with a maximum score of 3.814 .<\/li>\n<li>Interestingly, Iceland was not included in the first GPI released in 2007.<\/li>\n<li>The other peaceful countries following Iceland are:<br \/>\n(2) New Zealand (Score -1.241), (3) Portugal (Score -1.258), (4) Austria (score -1.265) and (5) Denmark (Score -1.337).<\/li>\n<li>The ranking of the most troubled 4 countries after Syria is: (162) Afghanistan (Score: 3.567), (161) Iraq (Score: 3.556), (160) South Sudan (Score: 3.524) and (159) Yemen (score- 3.412).<\/li>\n<li>In the Global Peace Index -2017, India is placed at 137th position (Score-2.541) .<\/li>\n<li>India was at 141th position last year.<\/li>\n<li>Among India\u2019s neighbors Bhutan is at 13th (Score: 1.474), Sri Lanka 80th (Score-2.019), Bangladesh 84th (Score-2.035), Nepal 93rd (Score-2.8), China 116th (Score-2.42) and Pakistan 152th (Score- 3.058) place .<\/li>\n<li>The ranking of other major countries of the world is as follows: Canada 8th, Japan 10th, Germany 16th, Singapore 21st, United Kingdom 41st, France 51st, Brazil 108th and the America at 114th position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related Links:-<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/0B9JDcB_PDjM1SUN6NXpzMmh3OTQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/0B9JDcB_PDjM1SUN6NXpzMmh3OTQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- India\u2019s ranking in the &#8216;Global Peace Index -2017&#8217; is\u2026 (a) 142nd (b) 137th (c) 144th (d) 125th Ans :(b) Related facts:- On June 1, 2017, the 11th edition of the &#8216;Global Peace Index-2017&#8217; was released by the London-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). Based on 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators, Global Peace Index [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-27122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}