The Dominican Republic is listed in 82nd place of 163 countries included in the Global Peace Index (GPI) prepared by the Institute for Economics and Peace, based in Sydney, Australia. The IEP listing seeks to communicate the economic value of peace.
The GPI is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness. This report presents the most comprehensive datadriven analysis to-date on trends in peace, its economic value, and how to develop peaceful societies.
The GPI covers 99.7% of the world’s population, using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources, and measures the state of peace across three domains: the level of societal safety and security, the extent of ongoing domestic and international conflict, and the degree of militarization.
The 2021 report states that the largest regional deterioration occurred in North America, which deteriorated across all three GPI domains. The primary driver of this fall in peacefulness was a deterioration on the Safety and Security domain, especially in the United States, where growing civil unrest led to increasing perceptions of criminality and political instability, and more violent demonstrations.
In the Americas, the DR is ranked below Canada (10th), Costa Rica (39th), Uruguay (47th), Chile (49th), Panama (64th), Argentina (68th), Jamaica (74th), Paraguay (75th). The United States is ranked in the 122th place.
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Global Peace Index
19 May 2022