{"id":28914,"date":"2018-10-24T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28914"},"modified":"2018-10-24T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:14:56","slug":"indias-rank-marginally-improves-in-peace-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-rank-marginally-improves-in-peace-index\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s rank marginally improves in peace index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India\u2019s rank marginally improves in peace index<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. India\u2019s rank has marginally improved in \u201c<strong>global peacefulness\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0according to the\u00a0<strong>Global Peace Index(GPI)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The GPI is released by\u00a0<strong>Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3. There is an overall decline of global peace owing to escalation of violence in West Asia and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>4. The IEP is the world\u2019s leading think tank that develops metrics to analyse peace and quantify its economic value.<\/p>\n<p>5. Peace continues to record a \u201cgradual, sustained fall\u201d across the world, the report noted.<\/p>\n<p>6. The results of the 2018 GPI find that the global level of peace has deteriorated by 0.27% last year, marking the fourth successive year of deteriorations.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Country wise ranking noted:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7. India\u2019s GPI rank<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>was\u00a0137 out of 163 countries in 2017<\/strong>, when the year 2016 was assessed.<\/p>\n<p>8. In 2018, when the year 2017 is assessed,\u00a0<strong>India\u2019s rank moved up to 136.<\/strong>\u00a0This is in line with the performance of some of the South Asian countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Nepal moved up from 93 to 84, while Sri Lanka moved up too, from position 80 to 67.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10. Pakistan too has improved marginally from 152 to 151.<\/p>\n<p>11. South Asia experienced the largest regional improvement in peacefulness.<\/p>\n<p>12. However, the best performer of South Asia, Bhutan, has slipped from 13 to 19.<\/p>\n<p>13. Bangladesh moved from 84 to 93.<\/p>\n<p>14. Syria remained the least peaceful country in the world, a position that it had held for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>15. Iceland continues to remain the most peaceful country in the world, a position it has held since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s rank marginally improves in peace index News: 1. India\u2019s rank has marginally improved in \u201cglobal peacefulness\u201d\u00a0according to the\u00a0Global Peace Index(GPI) Important facts: 2. The GPI is released by\u00a0Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). 3. There is an overall decline of global peace owing to escalation of violence in West Asia and North Africa.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-rank-marginally-improves-in-peace-index\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s rank marginally improves in peace index<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704953067},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}