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Global Peace Index 2019

The Global Peace Index 2019 report finds that the average level of global peacefulness improved very slightly in the 2019 GPI. This is the first time the index has improved in five years. The average country score improved by -0.09 per cent, with 86 countries improving, and 76 recording deteriorations. The 2019 GPI reveals a world in which the conflicts and crises that emerged in the past decade have begun to abate, but new tensions within and between nations have emerged.

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Global Peace Index 2019
The Institute for Economics and Peace
01/01/2019
https://www.visionofhumanity.org/?s=Global+Peace+Index+2019

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