Most Peaceful Countries

[ripper868]

New Zealand has been named as the world's most peaceful country...makes sense considering most of them live in Australia

Iraq has run dead last while Australia has come in at 19 (beating Great Britain)

Rankings & Results Vision of Humanity

 

[Corli]

South Africa in at 121. Oh well, at least we are higher than last year

 

[Flem274*]

We exported Craigos. Problem solved.

 

[Xuhaib]

Pakistan 145, pretty justified since we are lucky if we can go though a week without a suicide attack.

Funnily enough the two times I have been mugged have been outside Pakistan(London and Rome ftr)

 

[_Ed_]

We exported Craigos. Problem solved.

 

[cover drive man]

The computer won't let me on. Can someone please copy and paste the list?

 

[sledger]

Will do the top 5 for you lad, the rest of the list isn't particularly interesting.

1) New Zealand.
2) Sierra Leone.
3) Lebanon.
4) Colombia.
5) United Kingdom.

 

[Spark]

The computer won't let me on. Can someone please copy and paste the list?

Okedoke.

Rank Country Score
1 New Zealand 1.188
2 Iceland 1.212
3 Japan 1.247
4 Austria 1.290
5 Norway 1.322
6 Ireland 1.337
7 Denmark 1.341
7 Luxembourg 1.341
9 Finland 1.352
10 Sweden 1.354
11 Slovenia 1.358
12 Czech Republic 1.360
13 Portugal 1.366
14 Canada 1.392
15 Qatar 1.394
16 Germany 1.398
17 Belgium 1.400
18 Switzerland 1.424
19 Australia 1.467
20 Hungary 1.495
21 Slovakia 1.536
22 Malaysia 1.539
23 Oman 1.561
24 Uruguay 1.568
25 Spain 1.588
26 Costa Rica 1.590
27 Netherlands 1.610
28 Chile 1.616
29 Poland 1.618
30 Singapore 1.624
31 United Kingdom 1.631
32 France 1.636
33 Botswana 1.641
34 Laos 1.661
35 Taiwan 1.664
Rank Country Score
36 Bhutan 1.665
37 Tunisia 1.678
38 Vietnam 1.691
39 Kuwait 1.693
40 Italy 1.701
41 Croatia 1.707
42 Lithuania 1.713
43 South Korea 1.715
44 United Arab Emirates 1.739
45 Romania 1.749
46 Estonia 1.751
47 Mozambique 1.779
48 Ghana 1.781
49 Egypt 1.784
50 Bulgaria 1.785
51 Zambia 1.813
51 Malawi 1.813
53 Sierra Leone 1.818
54 Latvia 1.827
55 Tanzania 1.832
56 Libya 1.839
57 Burkina Faso 1.852
58 Morocco 1.861
59 Namibia 1.864
60 Bosnia and Hercegovina 1.873
61 Panama 1.878
62 Greece 1.887
63 The Gambia 1.890
64 Nicaragua 1.924
65 Albania 1.925
66 Moldova 1.938
67 Indonesia 1.946
68 Equatorial Guinea 1.948
68 Jordan 1.948
70 Bahrain 1.956
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Rank Country
Rank Country Score
71 Argentina 1.962
72 Cuba 1.964
73 Swaziland 1.966
74 Gabon 1.981
75 Rwanda 2.012
76 Cyprus 2.013
77 Madagascar 2.019
77 Paraguay 2.019
79 Senegal 2.031
80 China 2.034
81 Bolivia 2.037
82 Nepal 2.044
83 Brazil 2.048
83 Macedonia 2.048
85 United States of America 2.056
86 Angola 2.057
87 Bangladesh 2.058
88 Montenegro 2.060
89 Peru 2.067
90 Serbia 2.071
91 Guyana 2.095
92 Mongolia 2.101
93 Dominican Republic 2.103
94 Trinidad and Tobago 2.107
95 Kazakhstan 2.113
95 Papua New Guinea 2.113
97 Ukraine 2.115
98 Jamaica 2.138
99 Liberia 2.148
100 Uganda 2.165
101 Ecuador 2.185
102 Congo (Brazzaville) 2.192
103 El Salvador 2.195
104 Iran 2.202
105 Belarus 2.204
106 Cameroon 2.210
107 Mexico 2.216
107 Saudi Arabia 2.216
109 Mali 2.240
110 Uzbekistan 2.242
Rank Country Score
111 Cambodia 2.252
112 Guatemala 2.258
113 Armenia 2.266
114 Haiti 2.270
115 Syria 2.274
116 Algeria 2.277
117 Turkmenistan 2.295
118 Cote d’ Ivoire 2.297
119 Azerbaijan 2.367
120 Kenya 2.369
121 South Africa 2.380
122 Venezuela 2.387
123 Mauritania 2.389
124 Thailand 2.393
125 Honduras 2.395
126 Turkey 2.420
127 Ethiopia 2.444
128 India 2.516
129 Yemen 2.573
130 Philippines 2.574
131 Burundi 2.577
132 Myanmar 2.580
133 Sri Lanka 2.621
134 Lebanon 2.639
135 Zimbabwe 2.678
136 Central African Republic 2.753
137 Nigeria 2.756
138 Colombia 2.787
139 North Korea 2.855
140 Democratic Republic of
the Congo 2.925
141 Chad 2.964
142 Georgia 2.970
143 Russia 3.013
144 Israel 3.019
145 Pakistan 3.050
146 Sudan 3.125
147 Afghanistan 3.252
148 Somalia 3.390
149 Iraq 3.406

 

[cover drive man]

Thanks fellas.

Edit: Sledger

 

[benchmark00]

Iceland second? wtf, just assumed a giant ****-off volcano erupting would make some noise.

 

[Spark]

Iceland second? wtf, just assumed a giant ****-off volcano erupting would make some noise.

Outside the dataset. The Haiti earthquake isn't included either.

 

[Steulen]

Outside the dataset. The Haiti earthquake isn't included either.

Bigoted view of peaceful, imo. List probably conceived by a bunch of vegetarian human-hating extremists whose eyes are covered in yesterday's tofu and feta meal left-overs so they can't see what a vindictive piece of **** Mother Nature actually is.

 

[Langeveldt]

Didn't New Zealand have some fairly serious gang violence? I've heard a lot of stuff has gone on there that makes me surprised about it rolling it at number 1.. Definitely top 20, but I'm surprised it beat the Scandinavian bloc..

 

[Sanz]

Whoever created this list needs to have a reality check and perhaps some life.

 

[Langeveldt]

Whoever created this list needs to have a reality check and perhaps some life.

An impossible thing to quantify is 'peace'. This list looks fair enough to me though.. I guess you could look at the annual death by non-natural causes per capita, then remove things like road accidents, and you would have a good enough idea?

 

[silentstriker]

The list (whether true or not) is completely pointless. It doesn't really "tell" you anything about what it's like to live there. With all due respect to countries like Botswana, Bhutan or Rwanda - I don't particularly think most people would choose to live there over the US. I know perfectly well that this is not what it's measuring directly, but the list has no real value except to show off some arbitrary criteria.

A much better list would be something like the Human Development Index, which is a much better indication of the 'success' of a country:

List of countries by Human Development Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Pothas]

Nah that one makes Australia look far too good.

 

[Adamc]

The notion of 'peacefulness' is pretty nebulous and the number and variety of the variables they've used doesn't really assist in clarifying it. The 'about' section alludes to 'absence of violence' as being the key determinant of peacefulness, but a lot of the indicators they've used have little or no correlation to this which results in some odd rankings.

Some of the indicators considered alone are interesting though. The US has the highest rate (and number) of incarcerated citizens at ~750 per 100,000 (the corresponding figure for its northern neighbour is ~100) and twice that again on probation or parole, pretty crazy. Wasn't aware that Sweden and the Netherlands had major weapons export industries.

 

[cpr]

Basically big list of sh*ttingly boring countries, down to Australia....

 

[Smudge]

Didn't New Zealand have some fairly serious gang violence? .

I don't know - you tell us.