Global Peace Index 2025: Identifying and Measuring the Factors that Drive Peace

This is the 19th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness, covering 99.7 per cent of the world’s population. Produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), the GPI is the world’s leadingmeasure of global peacefulness. This report presents the most comprehensive data-drivenanalysis to date on trends in peace, its economic value, and how to develop peaceful societies. It uses 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators to measure the state of peace across three domains: the level of Societal Safety and Security; the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; andthe degree of Militarisation. The 2025 GPI finds that global peacefulness continues todecline and that many of the leading factors that precede major conflicts are higher than they have been since the end of WWII. More countries are increasing their levels of militarisation against the backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions, increasing conflict, the breakup of traditionalalliances and rising economic uncertainty.