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The Institute for Economics and Peace has released its Global Peace Index report for the year 2014, and several North African and Middle Eastern nations performed poorly owing to the violence in the region. Countries were graded peace scores based on 22 different indicators, with each of the different indicators weighted according to importance.
According to the report, global peace decreased this year; this is in part because four of the 22 indicators used to the index, ‘Terrorist activity’, ‘Number of internal and external conflicts fought’, ‘Number of displaced people as a percentage of the population’ and ‘Number of deaths from organized internal conflict’, were dropped.
Continued conflict in places like Syria was one of the major reasons that made the world less peaceful every year since 2008, the report said.
According to the report, conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa seeded by the Arab Spring continue to escalate. Egypt and Syria are, unsurprisingly, the two countries whose overall scores have deteriorated the most, with Egypt suffering the second-steepest decline globally. Iraq and Sudan were also among the ten least peaceful countries in the index.
Syria is at the bottom of the table for the first time; Syria ranks bottom among 162 countries, with an overall score of 3.65, replacing Afghanistan as the least peaceful country in the world, mostly due to the displacement of millions of Syrians by the fighting and the widespread access to weapons.
Iraq is third from bottom, despite the report being produced before the recent sectarian killings; it ranked 159th with an overall score of 3.38. Sudan is fifth from bottom, with a rank of 157 and an overall score of 3.36.
Egypt ranked 143rd with an overall score of 2.57, falling over 30 places and marking the second biggest loss in peace of any country in the world. The military-led ousting of former president Mohammed Morsi and the violent crackdown on his supporters from the Muslim Brotherhood is seen as the main cause of Egypt’s falling rank.
The index also reported that conflicts cost the world almost $ 9.8 trillion in 2013 – equal to 11.3 percent of the world’s gross domestic product and twice the size of the economies of 54 African nations.
Some Arab and Muslim nations in the index are listed below:
From more information from the index :
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/sites/default/files/2014%20Global%20Peace%20Index%20REPORT_0.pdf