Ghana ranked second most peaceful country in Africa. According to the 2021 Global Peace Index, Ghana is the second most peaceful country in Sub-Saharan Africa, trailing only Mauritius (GPI).
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank committed to turning the world’s attention to peace as a positive, feasible, and quantifiable measure of human well-being and growth, placed Ghana as the 38th most peaceful country in the world.
Ghana has risen marginally in the rankings from last year when it was ranked as the second most tranquil African country.
In a social media statement in response to the GPI rating, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo asked Ghanaians to keep the country peaceful.
Iceland continues to be the world’s most tranquil country, a title it has maintained since 2008.
In second, third, fourth, and fifth position, respectively, are New Zealand, Denmark, Portugal, and Slovenia.
Ghana ranked second most peaceful country in Africa
The index assigns a score to 163 sovereign nations and territories based on their peacefulness.
The GPI, created by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), is the world’s most widely used indicator of global peace.
The GPI measures the state of peace across three domains: societal safety and security, the extent of ongoing domestic and international conflict, and the degree of militarization.
It uses 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly regarded sources to cover 99.7% of the world’s population.
The average level of worldwide peacefulness decreased by 0.07 percent this year, according to the data.
This is the ninth decline in peacefulness in the previous thirteen years, with 87 nations improving and 73 declinings; nonetheless, the score shift is the second smallest in the index’s history.
The GPI for 2021 depicts a world in which the hostilities and crises of the previous decade have subsided, only to be replaced by a new wave of anxiety and uncertainty as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic and escalating tensions between several of the globe’s main nations.
