Morocco advances in peace index, as global indicators drop

Morocco advances in peace index, as global indicators drop
Sunday 19 June 2022 - 20:03

Morocco ranked 74th globally in the 2022  Global peace index from the international think-tank the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), after achieving a total point of 1,969 in the current classification.

Morocco advanced five ranks in the Global Peace Index, ranking 74th out of 163 countries included in the classification.

Morocco ranked sixth in North Africa and the Middle East, behind Qatar (23rd globally), Kuwait (39th globally), Jordan (57th globally), the UAE (60th globally), and Oman (64th globally).

On the African level, Morocco ranked seventh behind Ghana (40th globally), Botswana (48th globally), Zambia (56th globally), Malawi (65th globally), Namibia (68th globally), and Rwanda (68th globally). 72 worldwide).

The 16th edition of the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) report, the world’s leading measure of peacefulness, reveals that the average level of global peacefulness deteriorated by 0.3% in 2021.

This is the eleventh deterioration in peacefulness in the last fourteen years, with 90 countries improving, and 71 deteriorating, highlighting that countries deteriorate much faster than they improve.

Iceland remains the most peaceful country, a position it has held since 2008. It is joined at the top of the Index by New Zealand, Ireland, Denmark and Austria. For the fifth consecutive year, Afghanistan is the least peaceful country, followed by Yemen, Syria, Russia and South Sudan. Seven of the ten countries at the top of the GPI are in Europe, and Turkey is the only country in this region to be ranked outside the top half of the Index.

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

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