Global rating for peacefulness: Belarus-109th , Ukraine-71st, Russia-153rd
The rating includes 158 countries of the world.
The Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute issued the global rating for peacefulness in 2012. According
to the website fbc.net.ua, it is made by the international expert group on the
basis of 23 criteria in three groups: long-term domestic and international
conflicts, public safety and social protection; militarization. Each indicator has
a coefficient, which is calculated under a certain scale.
Small and stable democratic countries make the top ten: Iceland, Denmark, New Zealand,
Canada, Japan, Austria, Ireland, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland.
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