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Portugal in 9th position on Global Peace Index
• 07 Jun 2007 •
IN the first study of its kind, Portugal has been placed ninth on the Global Peace Index. The index is a ranking of 121 countries – from Algeria to Zimbabwe – listed according to their peacefulness. It was compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit and comprises a broad range of 24 indicators measuring both the internal and external peacefulness of nations, using factors like military spending, violent crime rates, local corruption, the level of respect for human rights, the size of a country’s prison population and organised crime rings, to reach their conclusions. The publication of the Global Peace Index came just a week before the leaders of the world’s richest countries gather for the G8 summit in Germany. The index has won the backing of an influential and distinguished group of supporters including the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Queen Noor of Jordan, former US President Jimmy Carter, and former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Professor Joseph Stiglitz, who are calling for an increased focus on peace.
The index is topped by Norway, but the rankings show that even among the G8 countries, there are significant differences in the peacefulness of nations. Japan ranks the highest at 5th; Canada (8th) also falls in the top 10; and Germany ranks just outside (12th). Italy (33rd), France (34th), and Britain (49th) rank in the top half of the table. |  Return to Top
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