The world’s safest country has been nominated, but the global peace levels have deteriorated since the latest global peace index.
The 2025 index, created by the Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP), also find that the world is undergoing “a fundamental reform of the world order”.
Researchers record 59 active state -based conflicts, most since the end of WwiiWith 100 countries becoming less peaceful than they were a decade ago.
Countries are ranked on the basis of both internal peace indicators, such as the level of violent level crimethe number of murders and violent protests, and external peace indicators such as military expenses, number Nuclear weapons and relationships with neighboring countries.
Iceland is again the rankings as the world’s most peaceful country in 2025, a title he has held since 2008.
Ireland takes second place for peace while New -ZealandAustria and Switzerland also make the top five.
Singapore countries just outside the top five with the rest of the top -10 consisting of European countries – Portugal, Denmark, Slovenia and Finland.
The UK is the 30th most calm country in the world and has risen two places in the index since 2024.
Iceland is best at the rankings as the world’s most peaceful country in 2025, a title he has held since 2008
Ireland takes second place for peace in the rankings. The report claims that the global peace levels have fallen since 2024
The US lands at the bottom of the rankings and falls on 128 out of 163 countries. Although its score has not changed this year, the report notes that the country is facing ‘rising political tensions and increasing polarization’.
Russia is judged as the least peaceful country in the world with Ukraine, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Yemen all in the bottom five.
Western and Central –uropa is the most peaceful region in the world, but the researchers warn that ‘Europe’s security environment is undergoing a profound transformation’.
They claim that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ‘the’ reduction of US strategic focus’ on Europe means that European countries’ increasingly infer funds’ from areas such as education and health care to ‘military expenses’.
The researchers Add: “The Russian threat is real and no individual European country comes near Russia’s military ability.”
The Middle East and North African Region remained the world’s least peaceful area in 2025. Meanwhile, sub-Saharan Africa has the most conflict of 35 countries, with 35 of 43 countries involved in a conflict over the past five years.
According to the IEP, Kashmir, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria are the regions that are the greatest risk of waging a great war.
South America is the only region that has improved its peaceful scores since last year’s index.
New Zealand is in 2025 as the third most peaceful country in the world
Russia is judged as the least peaceful country in the world. The report states that ‘no individual European country is near Russia’s military ability’
China has seen the largest increase in global influence since the Cold War
The number of countries considered ‘global influence’ has also risen, with 34 countries considered ‘significant geopolitical influence’ in at least one other country.
This has been a major increase since the end of the Cold War, when only 13 countries are considered as much influence.
China has seen the biggest increase in influence since the Cold War, but Saudi Arabia, Turkey, India, the UAE, Israel, South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia are also recorded as ‘influential regional powers’.
Steve Killelea, founder and executive chairman at the IEP, says: ‘Forever Wars’ concept is more real than at any stage in history.
‘The global peace index of this year shows that the world is at a critical bow. It is powered by rising mid -level forces, major power competition and unsustainable levels of debt burden in the world’s fragile countries.
“This leads to a fundamental re -alignment and a possible point to a new international order, the nature of which still cannot be understood.”
