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The Global Peace Index (GPI) has ranked Ghana as the second most peaceful country in sub-Saharan Africa behind Mauritius.<\/p>\n
The country also took the 38th most peaceful country in the world position on the index published by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP).<\/p>\n
IEP is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank dedicated to shifting the world\u2019s focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress.<\/p>\n
Ghana improve on last year\u2019s ranking which placed the country as the third most peaceful African country and the 43rd most peaceful country in the world.<\/p>\n
The GPI index ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness.<\/p>\n
Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the GPI is the world\u2019s leading measure of global peacefulness.<\/p>\n
The GPI covers 99.7 per cent of the world\u2019s population, using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources, and measures the state of peace across three domains: the level of Societal Safety and Security, the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict, and the degree of Militarisation.<\/p>\n
Global Peace<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s results show that the average level of global peacefulness deteriorated by 0.07 per cent.<\/p>\n
This is the ninth deterioration in peacefulness in the last thirteen years, with 87 countries improving, and 73 recording deteriorations; however, the change in score is the second smallest in the history of the index.<\/p>\n
The 2021 GPI reveals a world in which the conflicts and crises that emerged in the past decade have begun to abate, only to be replaced with a new wave of tension and uncertainty as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and rising tensions between many of the major powers.<\/p>\n
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