Comments on: The Global Peace Index

By: Abram Razzuvaev

Abram Razzuvaev — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:13:53 +0000

The 49% of data “facts” used for scoring is actualy an opinion-only of Economist Inteligence Unit analist, for 15% of date source is unknown. The way to calculate score and weights are actualy hidden and can not be controled.

So… from my poin of view is a way to hide brutality of UK and USA in Irak and other countries.

By: koby

koby — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:30:30 +0000

i agree with you aluinn. i come from ghana and we are ranked 40th(by african standards thats good!!!). my problem is that whiles there is(and there never has been) no scientific data on the employment situation in the country, they loosely place unemployment @ 8%. i dont have stats but i can bet my last dime its way higher than that. how do i know? i’m 1 of them and i know we are a lot.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:47:15 +0000

By Ireland I’m sure it means the Republic of Ireland rather than the island of Ireland.

By: Aluinn

Aluinn — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:41:46 +0000

I’d treat these figures with caution. In addition to some countries being missed off completely, I looked at the UK figures and it gave 99% adult literacy in those over age 15. We have a very public literacy crisis in the UK with something like 1 in 5 primary school children being functionally illiterate at age 11. Now either they’re catching up really well, or these figures are loose to the poing of inaccuracy….. have a look at the details for your own country and see what I mean….

By: Kath

Kath — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:28:51 +0000

There were thousands of pieces of data used to compile the list, perhaps they could not get accurate information from those countries that were not included on the list? Just a theory. I agree that it paints a misleading picture when so many places are missing

By: vaughnie

vaughnie — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:36:59 +0000

@johnny cat: well, i think you mean northern ireland which is part of the uk… and what does 9/11 have to do with that???

By: jill

jill — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:11:47 +0000

Is it just me or did they leave out a bunch of countries. Where’s North Korea, for instance? Or the Republic of the Congo? They can’t claim to rank the world and then leave out half of it…

By: trouble

trouble — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:00:24 +0000

i really wish that i could say that the us has a chance of making it’s way up that ladder soon, but like Ed Hands said un less of course the us minds its own business and lets everybody else kill themselves. but then again, we would have to work really hard to do that & i honestly think that that’s to much work. i prefer to be lazy!

it more fun! :-D

By: Ed Hands

Ed Hands — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:09:56 +0000

Golly, as “world police force”, the U.S. doesn’t really have much of a chance of getting very high up on that list now, does it?

Unless, of course, the U.S. minds it own business and lets everyone else kill themselves.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:55:50 +0000

Nice to see that Ireland has come so far with peace. Weren’t they stoning each other’s children (pre 9/11) for attending the wrong schools or something?