Nigeria has been ranked the 16th
least peaceful country in the world, according to the 2018 edition of Global
Peace Index (GPI).
The report, released on
Wednesday, ranked Nigeria 148 out of the total 163 countries surveyed.
Iceland is the most peaceful
country, closely followed by New Zealand and Austria while Syria is ranked
least peaceful, coming after Afghanistan and South Sudan respectively.
In Sub-Sahara Africa, Nigeria is
ranked 40 out of 44 countries, with Mauritius topping the list, while South
Sudan is ranked least.
According to the report produced
by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), global level of peace has
deteriorated by 0.27 percent in the last year, marking the fourth successive
year of deterioration.
It also said the world is “less
peaceful today than at any time in the last decade”.
It added that 92 countries
deteriorated, while only 71 improved. Nigeria is one such countries, up one
place from its 2017 ranking of 149.
In 2016, Nigeria was pegged at
149, while the figure was 151 for both 2015 and 2014.
The report said the global
economic impact of violence was $14.76 trillion PPP in 2017, equivalent to 12.4
percent of global GDP, or $1,988 per person.
The report covers 99.7 percent of
the world’s population and uses 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from
“highly respected sources” to compile the index. These indicators are grouped
into three key domains: ‘ongoing conflict’, ‘safety and security’, and
‘militarisation’.
All three domains deteriorated
over the last year.
“There’s been a gradual decline
in peacefulness over the last decade,” said Steve Killelea, head of IEP.
“The reason for this slow,
gradual decline in peacefulness really comes back to the conflicts in the
Middle East and North Africa, and the spillover effects into other areas.”
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