Botswana Most Peaceful In The World

The index is composed of 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources and ranks 163 independent states, covering 99.7% of the world’s population. It gauges global peace using three broad domains: the level of safety and security in the society, the extent of domestic and international conflict and the degree of militarisation.

In this year’s index, Botswana was ranked as 28 out of 163 countries, up three places from last year.  This continues to place Botswana over half of the European region countries surveyed, as well as all five of the Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council, i.e. France (46) UK (47), USA (103), China (120) and Russia (151).
On the African continent Botswana remains behind Mauritius (23).