Is Your Country Safe to Live?

Iceland, credit to Kolla and Jóhanna

At least, there are two institutes measure the peace index to conclude whether one particular country is safe or dangerous to live. First is called as Economic and Peace Institute, based in Sydney, Australia. Second, the World Economic Forum, located in Davos, Switzerland.

Ranking is made from the safest place to the worst country, based on many factors such as internal conflict, murder rate, political sinstability and terrorist attacks.

Top 10 Safest countries in 2018 ranked by Economic and Peace Institute, Sydney are following:

01. Iceland

02. New Zealand

03. Austria

04. Portugal

05. Denmark

06. Canada

07. Czech Republic

08. Singapore

09. Japan

10. Ireland

If you like to know whether you country included as safe country, please go to this website: Peace Index

Quite surprisingly, Italy (ranked 38) is less safe compared to Botswana (Africa) and Malaysia (South East Asia). Even worst, United Kingdom is ranked 57, much worst than many countries in Africa and Asia.

Moreover, let’s see top 10 countries ranked by World Economic Forum, Davos in 2018:

01. Finland - rating: 6.65

02. UAE - 6.6

03. Iceland - 6.57

04. Oman - 6.49

05. Hong Kong - 6.47

06. Singapore - 6.45

07. Norway - 6.41

08. Switzerland - 6.41

09. Rwanda - 6.39

10. Qatar – 6.33

Un-believable, how come two Middle East and two African countries safer than Scandinavian countries such a Denmark and Sweden, and safer than Australia, New Zealand and Canada? The rank is questionable.

I don’t know whether you agree with the rank or not !