No Surprise, Japan is one of the safest countries in the World

The Global Peace Index or GPI is a yearly ranking of countries via various peace indicators. The list is compiled by Visionofhumanity.org and ranks grades countries on everything from yearly murder rate to relations with neighboring countries and even military expenditure as a percentage of a countries gross domestic product.

Japan is ranked as the fifth most peaceful country in the world right behind Iceland, Denmark, Norway and New Zealand and is followed by Ireland, Portugal, Finland, Luxembourg and Austria – which completes the top 10.

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Where is Jamaica on the list?

Out of the 140 countries ranked in 2008 Jamaica is all the way down at number 96, I’ll be honest no surprise there. The surprise though came when I realized that we are ranked higher that the United States and Caribbean neighbors Trinidad and Tobago who are grappling with a series of child murders recently – the most recent being an 8 year old…very very sad.

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5 thoughts on “No Surprise, Japan is one of the safest countries in the World

  1. nice listing. i don’t think Jamaica should be that far down really, i mean surely we’re safer than Syria with all them Golan Heights and Hamas issues; and Namibia certainly needs to be bumped up the list – way up. Hong Kong is not a country! And no surprise about the bottom five at all.
    But I agree with you on hooray Jamaica beats USA. Let’s wave this in their faces whenever CNN or some other set of idiots decry our state of violence and crime.

  2. In terms of murder and robbery, those stats tell a good story about Japan. However, I doubt the full story on domestic violence, random violence towards women, and sexual assaults, in general has been revealed.

  3. Jamaica has to be safer than the U.S. overall. Unless you get involved in the crime life, it can’t be that bad.

    Billy West is right about a lot of crimes not being reported in Japan. Fraud, domestic abuse, and rape are pretty common out here.

  4. Ha! The Netherlands are definitely safe according to the map, but if you watch the news, and listen to the people on the street, most of my country men would have colored the Netherlands bright red, or have created a new color just for the purpose of upstaging the rest of the bright red countries.

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