The Global Peace Index ranks the safest and most peaceful countries in the world. This report is published annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace, which defines itself as “an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable and tangible measure of human wellbeing and progress.” The report researches countries to determine which are the safest and which are the most dangerous.
A total of 163 countries are featured in the GPI report, which ranks each country’s level of safety or danger based upon 23 different indicators. The indicators used to compile the GPI include the number of internal and external violent conflicts, level of distrust, political instability, potential for terrorist acts, number of homicides, and military expenditures as a percentage of GDP. These indicators are grouped into three broad categories: Ongoing International Conflict, Societal Safety and Security, and Militarization, and a score is calculated for each of the 163 nations featured in the report. The lower the score, the higher the nation is ranked in terms of safety.
People about to be really fucking angry because Ireland isn’t made out to be a shithole
The way this sub goes on we should be the third least safest country
I dont know enough about the figures to argue this list but I am very surprised
I have never felt as safe walking the street anywhere as I have in Portugal
Also thought Japan and Singapore were known for having basically 0 crime
Is there any writeup about the justification for each metric used? (Like why x country got whatever score in each of the indicators that form the index?
now to sit back and wait for /r/ireland to have a meltdown
LOL this index is so bad. With factors like: being a nuclear power, exporting weapons, etc. On the actual Safety&Security factor Ireland is only marginally better than the UK, and on perceived safety it actually scores worse.
In your face Denmark.
Now i’d like to see the ‘Junkie crime with a knife’ index next please.
What does it mean safe?
Global Peace Index, likelihood of going to war? I’d expect Switzerland a bit higher in that regard?
Maybe it’s to do with all the bungalows you see out in the country in Ireland? No chance of falling down the stairs.
I could be wrong here, but I honestly think people see one video of a fella getting smacked in the mouth on O’Connell Street in Dublin and then all of a sudden they’re tweeting how fucked the country is becoming (because of one video they saw).
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It feels like people already have their prejudices and are just waiting for one video to come up on their timeline and then they’re straight to getting themselves off by spewing vile stuff like “I was right all along. Country’s become an absolute kip – we need mass sterilizations bla bla bla”
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Seems like a logical fallacy that doesn’t consider any actual data and just serves their own wanking over misery.
I believe this list is more about “Countries that are most unlikely to go to war”, rather than you walking at night and getting stabbed. (Hence the Peace index).
23 indicators are used to establish peacefulness scores for each country:
1. Number and duration of internal conflicts
2. Number of deaths from external organized conflict
3. Number of deaths from internal organized conflict
4. Number, duration, and role in external conflicts
5. Intensity of organized internal conflict
6. Relations with neighbouring countries
7. Level of perceived criminality in society
8. Number of refugees and displaced persons as percentage of population
9. Political instability
10. Impact of terrorism
11. Political terror
12. Number of homicides per 100,000 people
13. Level of violent crime
14. Likelihood of violent demonstrations
15. Number of jailed persons per 100,000 people
16. Number of internal security officers and police per 100,000 people
17. Military expenditure as a percentage of GDP
18. Number of armed-services personnel per 100,000
19. Volume of transfers of major conventional weapons as recipient (imports) per 100,000 people
20. Volume of transfers of major conventional weapons as supplier (exports) per 100,000 people
21. Financial contribution to UN peacekeeping missions.
22. Nuclear and heavy weapons capability
23. Ease of access to small arms and light weapons
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk!
Japan is on 10th place and Ireland on 3rd? Maybe in parallel universe, lol. If you ever been to Japan, you will realize their safety is on another level.
We beat the fucking Danish!!!! Yesssss, fuck you danes.
I’ve been to many European cities and I would believe this.
I’ve never felt scared walking by myself through Dublin at any time of the day or night. I have seen plenty of trouble caused by drug addicts but that seems to be among themselves. If you mind your own business you won’t find yourself in trouble. I am a cishet, white man so I can only speak to my experiences.
Unlike my experiences with other cities where muggings and street scams seem more common.
Would have thought the UAE and other rich Arab nations would figure highly here?
Ireland isn’t scary or dangerous at all. A small number of problematic types act like unchallenged school bullies and harass people and cause fights, especially in parts of central Dublin, but other than that it’s actually so safe it’s almost boring.
We’re a very easy going, safe place with a far too easy going law approach to law enforcement that just isn’t appropriate in a few spots for dealing with a very small minority of extremely problematic individuals. Violent thugs being dealt with by unarmed police in family hatchbacks and a judiciary that is a *bit* over optimistic.
Overall though it’s a very safe place, once you give a few small spots a skip.
Sweden is a lot more way down than I thought it would be. I would have thought it was among the safest in the world but has changed a lot in recent years from what I’ve heard.
It’s only when you’ve lived in relatively unsafe and violent countries do realise how chill Ireland actually is. I hate to disappoint the naysayers but I would think this list is very believable.
Lived in Singapore, it’s much more safe than here. Can easily wonder around at 2am locked without any hassle from anyone which is my bar on a country safety. Was at O’Connell Street recently around 11, absolutely hell hole which didn’t feel safe with scrotes everywhere.
No way Ireland is safer than the likes of Singapore or Japan, by quite a margin.
This is a “Global Peace Index” which takes into account things like involvement in international military conflicts and military expenditures as non-peaceful factors, hence why Ireland ranks very highly.
unless if you’re a bike
I don’t feel like the Czech Republic gets enough plaudits. Every time I look at these kind of lists they seem to be getting higher and higher up them. Out of all the former Warsaw Pact countries, they’re the first to have developed a standard of living on a par with Nordic/IE/DE/CH. What’s very impressive is they’ve done it without the inflation associated with Ireland and Finland.
r/ireland on its way to get angry about anything positive in our country:
Thankfully not everywhere is like some parts of Dublin.
Genuinely have to say I’ve travelled to Galway, Mayo, Kerry and never once did I feel anything other than completely at ease.
Let’s take a break whinging for this post and be thankful that we live in such a beautiful place.
Korea and Japan are much safer than Ireland, that’s for sure.
Maybe that’s why the Irish are leaving. They need a bit more excitement.
I’d love to know the metrics for judging “the safest country”. I was born and lived in Ireland for 20 years and moved to Korea 5 years ago. I feel so much safer here. You don’t see much visible crime on the streets. No hooligans loitering around. Obviously there are still problems but it definitely feels safer.
Fourth most expensive so yeah
Is this because not enough people are charged?
We don’t *feel* safer than Japan.
Iceland is too cold to start trouble.
I have a single anecdote about something that happened to me so this can’t be true
The scariest thing about Ireland are those gangs of teenagers.
Yeah that’s a no. I’ve lived in Singapore, Japan, Finland. Infinity times more safe.
Meanwhile USA is 129 out of 163.
And to think people are baffled when I tell them there’s a reason I want to move my daughter out of there and back home to Ireland, even though the poor thing has to do active shooter drills every other month. That’s not normal, like…
It is also the sixth richest by GDP.
I’m sceptical….where the heck is Norway for a start?! I spent some time there…I don’t think I saw a single piece of anti social behaviour
I’ve lived in 5 different countries and it does always give me a giggle when Irish people talk about how dangerous Ireland is.
Always a tell tale of someone who barely makes it out if their county
The one who gave these ranks probably never met the teens/youth of Dublin.
Whoever made this chart has clearly never dropped 5 euro on the ground in cavan
What metric we using here – walking down Grafton street at 3am or getting nuked? Because if it’s the later, I don’t think it really matters once someone nukes the UK….
Yeah but have you ever been waking home on a night out in galway with a bag of chips? Seagulls be on the attack. 3rd safest country my hole. They mostly come out at night, mostly! 😧 😂
Love Ireland but suspect that list was pulled out of a drunk journalist’s arse.
What constitutes safety in this survey? Can you share the source of truth please?
Grew up in Ireland. Can say for a fact this is bullshit. The amount of times I was randomly hopped by scumbags and travellers growing up. And no I’m not from Dublin. Grew up in a Cork suburb.
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According to the 2022 Global Peace Index
The Global Peace Index ranks the safest and most peaceful countries in the world. This report is published annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace, which defines itself as “an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable and tangible measure of human wellbeing and progress.” The report researches countries to determine which are the safest and which are the most dangerous.
A total of 163 countries are featured in the GPI report, which ranks each country’s level of safety or danger based upon 23 different indicators. The indicators used to compile the GPI include the number of internal and external violent conflicts, level of distrust, political instability, potential for terrorist acts, number of homicides, and military expenditures as a percentage of GDP. These indicators are grouped into three broad categories: Ongoing International Conflict, Societal Safety and Security, and Militarization, and a score is calculated for each of the 163 nations featured in the report. The lower the score, the higher the nation is ranked in terms of safety.
[https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/safest-countries-in-the-world?fbclid=IwAR0iN19NIPseTuyIHDGnGfzBkkFeCNupU-mUpT8OGHCX-Al-YwbzJ_d6bLo](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/safest-countries-in-the-world?fbclid=IwAR0iN19NIPseTuyIHDGnGfzBkkFeCNupU-mUpT8OGHCX-Al-YwbzJ_d6bLo)
Take that Denmark.
People about to be really fucking angry because Ireland isn’t made out to be a shithole
The way this sub goes on we should be the third least safest country
I dont know enough about the figures to argue this list but I am very surprised
I have never felt as safe walking the street anywhere as I have in Portugal
Also thought Japan and Singapore were known for having basically 0 crime
Is there any writeup about the justification for each metric used? (Like why x country got whatever score in each of the indicators that form the index?
Edit: Ah, it was hiding at the bottom of the page with the map: https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GPI-2022-web.pdf
now to sit back and wait for /r/ireland to have a meltdown
LOL this index is so bad. With factors like: being a nuclear power, exporting weapons, etc. On the actual Safety&Security factor Ireland is only marginally better than the UK, and on perceived safety it actually scores worse.
In your face Denmark.
Now i’d like to see the ‘Junkie crime with a knife’ index next please.
What does it mean safe?
Global Peace Index, likelihood of going to war? I’d expect Switzerland a bit higher in that regard?
Maybe it’s to do with all the bungalows you see out in the country in Ireland? No chance of falling down the stairs.
I could be wrong here, but I honestly think people see one video of a fella getting smacked in the mouth on O’Connell Street in Dublin and then all of a sudden they’re tweeting how fucked the country is becoming (because of one video they saw).
​
It feels like people already have their prejudices and are just waiting for one video to come up on their timeline and then they’re straight to getting themselves off by spewing vile stuff like “I was right all along. Country’s become an absolute kip – we need mass sterilizations bla bla bla”
​
Seems like a logical fallacy that doesn’t consider any actual data and just serves their own wanking over misery.
I believe this list is more about “Countries that are most unlikely to go to war”, rather than you walking at night and getting stabbed. (Hence the Peace index).
23 indicators are used to establish peacefulness scores for each country:
1. Number and duration of internal conflicts
2. Number of deaths from external organized conflict
3. Number of deaths from internal organized conflict
4. Number, duration, and role in external conflicts
5. Intensity of organized internal conflict
6. Relations with neighbouring countries
7. Level of perceived criminality in society
8. Number of refugees and displaced persons as percentage of population
9. Political instability
10. Impact of terrorism
11. Political terror
12. Number of homicides per 100,000 people
13. Level of violent crime
14. Likelihood of violent demonstrations
15. Number of jailed persons per 100,000 people
16. Number of internal security officers and police per 100,000 people
17. Military expenditure as a percentage of GDP
18. Number of armed-services personnel per 100,000
19. Volume of transfers of major conventional weapons as recipient (imports) per 100,000 people
20. Volume of transfers of major conventional weapons as supplier (exports) per 100,000 people
21. Financial contribution to UN peacekeeping missions.
22. Nuclear and heavy weapons capability
23. Ease of access to small arms and light weapons
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk!
Japan is on 10th place and Ireland on 3rd? Maybe in parallel universe, lol. If you ever been to Japan, you will realize their safety is on another level.
We beat the fucking Danish!!!! Yesssss, fuck you danes.
I’ve been to many European cities and I would believe this.
I’ve never felt scared walking by myself through Dublin at any time of the day or night. I have seen plenty of trouble caused by drug addicts but that seems to be among themselves. If you mind your own business you won’t find yourself in trouble. I am a cishet, white man so I can only speak to my experiences.
Unlike my experiences with other cities where muggings and street scams seem more common.
Would have thought the UAE and other rich Arab nations would figure highly here?
Ireland isn’t scary or dangerous at all. A small number of problematic types act like unchallenged school bullies and harass people and cause fights, especially in parts of central Dublin, but other than that it’s actually so safe it’s almost boring.
We’re a very easy going, safe place with a far too easy going law approach to law enforcement that just isn’t appropriate in a few spots for dealing with a very small minority of extremely problematic individuals. Violent thugs being dealt with by unarmed police in family hatchbacks and a judiciary that is a *bit* over optimistic.
Overall though it’s a very safe place, once you give a few small spots a skip.
Sweden is a lot more way down than I thought it would be. I would have thought it was among the safest in the world but has changed a lot in recent years from what I’ve heard.
It’s only when you’ve lived in relatively unsafe and violent countries do realise how chill Ireland actually is. I hate to disappoint the naysayers but I would think this list is very believable.
Lived in Singapore, it’s much more safe than here. Can easily wonder around at 2am locked without any hassle from anyone which is my bar on a country safety. Was at O’Connell Street recently around 11, absolutely hell hole which didn’t feel safe with scrotes everywhere.
No way Ireland is safer than the likes of Singapore or Japan, by quite a margin.
This is a “Global Peace Index” which takes into account things like involvement in international military conflicts and military expenditures as non-peaceful factors, hence why Ireland ranks very highly.
unless if you’re a bike
I don’t feel like the Czech Republic gets enough plaudits. Every time I look at these kind of lists they seem to be getting higher and higher up them. Out of all the former Warsaw Pact countries, they’re the first to have developed a standard of living on a par with Nordic/IE/DE/CH. What’s very impressive is they’ve done it without the inflation associated with Ireland and Finland.
r/ireland on its way to get angry about anything positive in our country:
Thankfully not everywhere is like some parts of Dublin.
Genuinely have to say I’ve travelled to Galway, Mayo, Kerry and never once did I feel anything other than completely at ease.
Let’s take a break whinging for this post and be thankful that we live in such a beautiful place.
Korea and Japan are much safer than Ireland, that’s for sure.
Maybe that’s why the Irish are leaving. They need a bit more excitement.
I’d love to know the metrics for judging “the safest country”. I was born and lived in Ireland for 20 years and moved to Korea 5 years ago. I feel so much safer here. You don’t see much visible crime on the streets. No hooligans loitering around. Obviously there are still problems but it definitely feels safer.
Fourth most expensive so yeah
Is this because not enough people are charged?
We don’t *feel* safer than Japan.
Iceland is too cold to start trouble.
I have a single anecdote about something that happened to me so this can’t be true
The scariest thing about Ireland are those gangs of teenagers.
Yeah that’s a no. I’ve lived in Singapore, Japan, Finland. Infinity times more safe.
Meanwhile USA is 129 out of 163.
And to think people are baffled when I tell them there’s a reason I want to move my daughter out of there and back home to Ireland, even though the poor thing has to do active shooter drills every other month. That’s not normal, like…
It is also the sixth richest by GDP.
I’m sceptical….where the heck is Norway for a start?! I spent some time there…I don’t think I saw a single piece of anti social behaviour
I’ve lived in 5 different countries and it does always give me a giggle when Irish people talk about how dangerous Ireland is.
Always a tell tale of someone who barely makes it out if their county
The one who gave these ranks probably never met the teens/youth of Dublin.
Whoever made this chart has clearly never dropped 5 euro on the ground in cavan
What metric we using here – walking down Grafton street at 3am or getting nuked? Because if it’s the later, I don’t think it really matters once someone nukes the UK….
Yeah but have you ever been waking home on a night out in galway with a bag of chips? Seagulls be on the attack. 3rd safest country my hole. They mostly come out at night, mostly! 😧 😂
Love Ireland but suspect that list was pulled out of a drunk journalist’s arse.
What constitutes safety in this survey? Can you share the source of truth please?
Grew up in Ireland. Can say for a fact this is bullshit. The amount of times I was randomly hopped by scumbags and travellers growing up. And no I’m not from Dublin. Grew up in a Cork suburb.