Countries with Biggest Change in Peacefulness

The Global Peace Index scores a country's peacefulness according to several factors including military expenditure, weapons imports and exports, political terror scale, deaths from internal and external conflict, nuclear and heavy weapons, perceptions of criminality, homicide rate, political instability, violent crime, and demonstrations, among others.

A lower score indicates more peacefulness. This chart shows countries which had the most change—positive or negative 0.1 or more—substantially affecting their score from 2023. Some deteriorated, some improved.

Overall, the global average was a net deterioration. ‘Peace inequality’ continues to grow as the gap between the most and least peaceful countries is now larger than at any time during the history of the index

The index scores 163 countries. Scores have been rounded to nearest hundredth.