Azerbaijan rated 122nd among ‘peace-loving’ nations
BAKU – Azerbaijan ranks 122nd out of 153 countries among "peace-loving" nations, a think tank has said in a report.
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) report, released on Wednesday, ranks countries based on 23 key criteria, including the size of their military budget and the number of staff in the armed forces and law enforcement.
Iceland was ranked as the most peace-loving nation, followed by New Zealand and Japan. Somali took the last spot, according to the Global Peace Index (GPI).
The report also claimed that Armenia is a more peace-loving country than Azerbaijan, ranking 109th, though the country has occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory since a war in the early 1990s.
Azerbaijan’s other neighbors – Turkey, Georgia and Russia – ranked 127th, 134th and 147th respectively.
The United States ranked 82nd in the report.
Founded in 2007 with offices in Sydney and New York, the IEP is an international research institute dedicated to building a greater understanding of the inter-relationships between business, peace and economics, with a particular emphasis on the economic benefits of peace.
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