Ghana is 2nd most peaceful country in Africa according to Global Peace Index 2022

Ghana makes it to enviable position in the 2022 Africa’s Most Peaceful Countries League as announced by the Global Peace Index 2022.

Peace remains an illusive resource and experience in many countries and the less of it the worse the socio-economic development and opportunities that exist for the youth to realize their dreams.

As year 2022 comes to an end, the Global Peace Index 2022 has announced Africa’s top 10 peaceful nations on the content.

Ghana led by President Akuffo Addo placed second behind Mauritius. Outcomes such as these make the country attractive to investors and boost tourism on all fronts.

Globally, Iceland placed 1st with a score of 1.107 followed by New Zealand, Ireland and Demark in 2nd, 3rd and 4th positions respectively.

Unsurprisingly, two of the five countries with the largest deteriorations in peacefulness were Russia and Ukraine, they were joined by Guinea, Burkina Faso and Haiti. All of these deteriorations were due to ongoing conflict.

Global Peace Index 2022 ranking

Ghana is 2nd most peaceful country in Africa according to Global Peace Index 2022

Reacting to the announcement, some commentators have argued that Ghana, Botswana  and Namibia  are the most violent countries and that his is just to say that peace is not the absence of violence.

Africa’s Most Peaceful Countries (2022)

1. Mauritius

2. Ghana

3. The Gambia

4. Botswana

5. Sierra Leone

6. Zambia

7. Equatorial Guinea

8. Malawi

9. Namibia

10. Senegal

The Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress.

This is the 16th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the GPI is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness. This report presents the most comprehensive data-driven analysis to-date on trends in peace, its economic value, and how to develop peaceful societies.

The GPI covers 163 countries comprising 99.7 per cent of the world’s 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.

In addition to discussing the findings from the 2022 GPI, the report includes an analysis of the military conflict in Ukraine. It covers likely increases in military spending, new and emerging uses of technology in the war, its impact on food prices and global shipping routes. The report also contains a deeper analysis on violent demonstrations around the world.

This year’s results found that the average level of global peacefulness deteriorated by 0.3 per cent. Although slight, this is the eleventh deterioration in peacefulness in the last fourteen years, with 90 countries improving, 71 deteriorating and two remaining stable in peacefulness, highlighting that countries tend to deteriorate much faster than they improve.

Iceland remains the most peaceful country in the world, a position it has held since 2008. It is joined at the top of the index by New Zealand, Ireland, Denmark and Austria. Afghanistan is the least peaceful country in the world for the fifth consecutive year, followed by Yemen, Syria, Russia and South Sudan. All of these countries have been among the ten least peaceful countries for the last three years.

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Europe is the most peaceful region in the world, where seven of the ten countries most peaceful countries are located. Five of the nine regions in the world became more peaceful over the past year. The largest improvements occurred in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.