Doha: Qatar ranked first in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and 27th globally in the Global Peace Index for the year 2020.
Issued by the Institute of Economics and Peace in Australia, the state was ranked 31 in the year 2019 GPI ranking. The 2020 report covered 163 countries globally and in MENA Kuwait comes second (39 globally) followed by UAE (41) and Oman in fourth position (68).
Qatar is also listed among the top 15 in food security, ranking 13, with 81.2 points. Qatar is first in the Arab world and 16 globally for Society Safety and Security domain.
The Global Peace Index is based on three main criteria: the level of Societal Safety and Security, the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict, and the degree of Militarization, in addition to a set of criteria related to different fields, including the internal and external affairs of states.
The Global Peace Index is an attempt to measure the relative peacefulness of countries and regions. It is produced by the Institute for Economic and Peace in consultation with an international team of experts from institutes and research centers and in cooperation with the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia.
The countries are ranked in the Index on a scale of 1-5 degrees so that the most stable countries are those who achieve 1, while the least stable receive 5.
It is important to note that the State of Qatar has continued to top the Global Peace Index among the MENA countries during the past couple of years, along with its high performance in many indicators during the past year, the most important of which was obtaining the 1st position globally in terms of security and safety among 118 countries according to the annual report of 2019 crime index issued by Numbeo' and the 2nd in the Arab world and the 29th globally in the competitiveness index out of 141 countries. It also ranked 1st in the Arab world and the 7th globally out of 118 countries in the Global Finance Safety Index and the 2nd in the Arab World and the 10th globally in the Global Competitiveness Report 2019.
