The Safest Countries In The World (2023 Ranking)
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▶ In this video I go through the Global Peace Index's 2023 report for the Safest Countries in the World.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Map overview
03:03 What is the Global Peace Index?
03:21 Sectors measured
03:45 Indicators in each sector
05:01 The 15 safest countries
05:43 The 13 least safe countries
06:32 Further details of the report
08:02 How many countries per safety ranking?
08:44 Top/Bottom 5 countries in each sector
09:34 Comparison between regions
10:35 Gap between the most and least peaceful
10:47 Evolution of military expenses worlwide
11:19 Positive Peace Pillars
11:49 Impact of Ukraine & Russia
12:07 Summary
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*Do you agree with your country's safety ranking?*
Important to point out that I *don't* agree with some of this ranking; It seems to me that they should have two separate indexes that depict the behavior of a nation or its regime / government towards global security (militarization etc) and another one that depicts the internal safety of its own citizens. Mixing up the two does not offer the most accurate view of either!
As an American I could agree with yellow maybe but to be classified the same as Mexico lol? Our militarization is rated worse, meanwhile Mexico literally has to send their army in to kill armed gangs while their helicopters get shot at but sure...America's worse. Just another America bad study at a quick glance but perhaps I'll look more into the data later
I live in Canada where the violent crime rate is up 32% since 2015 and people of my particular demographic are less free, and have less rights than we did in 2015. I am not surprised to see Canada falling down the rankings but I expected Canada to fall a bit farther than we did.
@@James-zg2nl what's your demographic?
@@The_Room_2_Doggys_Revenge veteran and licensed firearms owner, both groups have been under attack by the Trudeau government for years.
Safe from what, crime? What about government. China should be red is we take that into account, along with several others
Hello from the safest country in Africa. BOTSWANA. Also Africa's longest continuous democracy, never had a coup, war.
Congrats 🥳
Botswana feels like one of the best african countries from how many good news comes from it keep it up lads make botswana even greater and a prime example of how to run a democracy
Hopefully more African countries follow that model soon 🙏
Irrelevant country
If I ever visit southern africa, botswana will be the top of my list
As an US citizen who has lived abroad, yes this seems pretty accurate to me. Only Americans who have spent their whole lives in the US think the US is safe.
Finally someone who admits it and doesn't try to sweep it under the rug. The US has problems like every other country in the world, unfortunately these problems seem to be taken as something natural, which is why improvements never come and it only gets worse. Which is frustrating when the country has the potential to be so much better.
How is it accurate, when according to this, having a bigger military is less safe?
@@top10cars2 thats a corrolation. That does not necessarily mean that they are directly related.
Because it is…..
on the contrary, its not dangerous everywhere either
Iceland has more crime TV shows than crimes.
Iceland news: Breaking news! Someone has decided to put pineapple on pizza!
@@SS-yj2le Yum!
@@SS-yj2le you really need to see the stuff they put on pizzas here - it will blow your mind ;P Pineapple is the least of it....
Djibuoti has more poeple than iceland lol
@@SS-yj2le well, that is actually a serious crime for me.
As an American who's traveled across much of Europe, this ranking definitely makes sense.
I remember being on a tour in Switzerland which ended at lake Zurich. There was a lot of American backpackers with us, and they wanted to explore the city, or swim in the lake. Our tour guide was very insistent that they could just leave all their stuff on the shore, and promised no one would take their stuff. That seemed to be a difficult concept for some of them to understand. But she ended up being right.
U should visit ireland
America can be really safe it depends which area you’re in and also much safer than countries like Mexican but obviously not as good as western europe
@@Student0Toucher I don't even leave my shit unlocked in the suburbs in Canada, too much theft. No idea where you live in the US where that isn't the case, but it'd be nice to not have to always be paranoid in the city.
I'm curious what all these European countries would do if we decided to shut down the military industrial complex, go isolationist, and bring all the troops and supplies home. I mean, I'm all for military isolationism. Let Europe handle their shit like in the old days.
yeah cause we know if we leave anything someone is going to steal that sh.
I can vouch for Portugal. Lived there for two years and felt safe everywhere at every time of day. Now I live in California and it's like being back home in Brazil
As of late Portugal has become too expensive to live in, plus new laws regarding taxes will get deep into retirees and peoples pockets, crazy taxes, rents are threw the roof, real estate getting sky high, how the heck are the locals dealing with this high cost of living now, because high cost locals seem getting fed up with foreigners living there now, truly crazy!! i remember the old Portugal!!
I've lived in 2 areas labelled ghettos in Copenhagen, Denmark. In that period of time i walked home shit drunk A LOT. Never experienced anything uncomfortable or dangerous. Indexes don't include this stuff, but yeah, to me Denmark feels pretty safe. Just don't step into the bicycle lane. Then it's pretty unsafe
I lived now in Copenhagen and moved last month from one of those. I agree with you but it seems that Dannes did a lot of good work in "pacifying", for the lack of a better word, these places in the recent decade. A lot of people told me they remember times when shootings were commonplace and now they are unheard of.
I live in a small town in Denmark, and i've been to Copenhagen a lot times. I literally feel just as safe there as home. It always surprised me that other countries consider their capitals the least safe
Same in the Netherlands. Look out for the bike lanes!
Admit it. You made this video to flex that Portugal is one of the safest countries in the world. /s
i think he meant serious otherwise he said /j
Lol 😅
Perhaps
@Safwaan think it means hes being sarcastic
@@General.Knowledge rei💪🏻
As an American, these stats have been quite humbling. Here in the US, a lot of Americans see Brazil as a corrupt, crime ridden country (even if they don't admit it) and this is a stereotype that extends to most of South America. But the US is a mere 1 rank above Brazil, and there are a number of South American countries above the US, like Uruguay.
It pays to learn about the outside world!
Well, in the US even the "nice" parts of cities can be dangerous. The small towns are quite safe.
The U.S is a lot safer than Brazil or Mexico for example….No matter what that rank says and my parents are immigrants from Mexico
So americans can't critique brazil because they are corrrupt too?
LOOK at the scoring system. They penalize countries for militarism, jailing criminals, and NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Which all make the U.S. and the world safer, so your either ignorant or you have read the source
The US get unfairly docked due to our large military, nuclear weapons, and the second amendment. The ranking simply isn't fair because it completely ignores that those green European nations rely on OUR military and OUR nuclear weapons to defend them from the evil Russian bear
As an American living in Tokyo, I think my only source of surprise is how LOW on the list Japan is -- #10! Hard to believe there are nine countries deemed safer than this one, but I guess anywhere in that top part of the list is going to have a pretty similar vibe.
Either way, the contrast between Japan and the U.S. is STARK. Even in so-called safe parts of the U.S., I still always found myself side-eyeing strangers, keeping a tight grip on my belongings at all times, and -- sadly -- always making sure I knew the quickest escape route in case a mass shooting were to break out.
Those types of thoughts simply DO NOT go through my mind living in Japan. Any time of the day or night, in any part of the city or country, I feel 100% at ease walking by myself without a care in the world. It's an amazing feeling that I wish more people in the world could know.
Japan itself is very safe, but being located so close to two unstable enemies brings down the score.
@@juliansmith4295 Fair point indeed! And really, it's kind of three unstable enemies, since we've got China, North Korea, and Russia on our borders. Definitely a rough neighborhood!
@@Wyrdwad Ah yes, you're right. I keep forgetting how close that last one is, since they've been facing the other direction for the last year or so. Yikes.
I’m a Japanese American Tokyo native. I started walking around neighborhoods and took public transportation alone to cram school alone when I was a 1st grader😆
I’m currently a college student in LA suburb, in which people claim that it’s one of the safest city in the country and I still receive crime reports on my text app pretty often.
I just love how peaceful it is everywhere you walk around Tokyo, even at night. It’s such a vibe and it’s way more fun then walking around dreary American cities’ neighborhoods I go back every year twice to Japan I’d love to live there again.
In Japan, a woman can walk around in the middle of the night and nothing will happen. An elementary school student can ride a train at midnight. Even in the most unsafe places in Japan, you will probably only be accosted by drunks. And dropped wallets are usually returned.
Here in South Africa your wallet would be gone before it hits the floor.
@@gbone7581 lol
"An elementary school student can ride a train at midnight"
I did it all my life here in Brazil and nothing ever happened XD. Literally taking buses midnight.
And buses and bus stations are only frequented by the poor... I live by no means in a rich area.
80% of all crimes in these places are almost always concentrated in one or two specific and small streets and/or neighborhoods inside the cities.
China is the most safest country in the country for sure！
@@user-ii8pu2xq8i no at all.difinitely the worst country
In the ongoing conflicts category there are several countries tied for first place. The counties with the same rank are simply listed in alphabetical order.
This is true!
As a Malaysian, I am happy that Malaysia 🇲🇾 ranked 18th in peace :)
I'm surprised, thought it would be much lower
La clasificación no es de los países más seguros, evalúa más bien la pacifidad de un país (tensiones políticas, conflictos internos o externos, revueltas sociales...). Los países más seguros son:
1.Liechtenstein
2.Andorra
3.San Marino
4.Catar
5.Emiratos Arabes Unidos
6.Eslovenia
7.Suiza
8.ERITREA
9.Austria
10.OMÁN
MALASIA SE ENCONTRARÍA EN EL LUGAR 122
Malaysia is beautiful!!!
@@Borlamachthe constant flooding is a tragedy.
Hi Malaysia from Australia. I've walked down the beautiful streets of KL at midnight lit up with fairy lights. A wonderful country ❤️
I feel like access to health care need to be a bigger factor in these rankings. I live in the US, and not having access to universal health care is a big reason why I don't always feel safe here.
Health and safety are often mentioned or discussed together because they are both aspects of wellbeing. However, they aren't the same thing, and the index discussed here is not a wellbeing index. I am stunned that any person would ever consider health care a matter of safety.😦
@@dixonpinfold2582 They’re’s still the daily mass shootings
@@GolemDude H.F.S.🙄
@@dixonpinfold2582 ?
amen!
South Africa should get the red, to be completely honest.
Crime alone is enough to consider it unsafe but this list takes into account other factors which we aren't doing bad in.
You haven't been to other countries
@Zaydan Alfariz I hate those. I just spent a whole day without electricity because thieves stole the cables.
For me as a Finn it's a bit shocking to realize that one of the deepest gap in safety is between Finland and Russia.
Video maker can't understand how tight situation in our area.
Hungary and Ukraine also
One step form the border and safety decrees by 50%.
@@therealnuggetball This is not as uncommon as one may think.
South/North Korea, Dominican Republic/Haiti, Oman/Yemen.
The former have stability and a functioning economy, the latter are hellholes.
Russia was pretty safe until the Ukraine war.
I actually learned that Iceland is so safe, police officers don’t even carry weapons like guns or tasers. People can even abandon infants in strollers for minutes at a time & not have to worry about kidnapping.
It only takes one..
the uk and new zealand also have officers without fire arms
This is true for all the Nordic nations. I live in Norway and I've only seen an armed policeman once in my life. As for child kidnapping, there have been a few cases of rather ugly custody conflicts, but somebody stealing a child they're not a parent of - I don't think I've ever heard of that happening in any Nordic country.
Yeah, I can imagine that for iceland, especially since it's population isn't so high
No guns for police in Ireland either
A few weeks ago I suggested a more in-depth video on this index, so I am very pleased you produced one.
Thanks for yet another super interesting video. 🥰
Ireland may be peaceful and stable, but living here is a struggle. It is impossible to rent or buy a house without huge amounts of money and there are currently over 11k people homeless. Hospitals are overcrowded and 1 in 4 people are on a waiting list. You need to be rich in Ireland or you won't get far
The militarisation stat is a bit unfair. The only reason New Zealand isn't militarised is because there are larger military powers in the region that will defend New Zealand at all costs (Australia and USA), who lose points because of this while New Zealand doesn't. Same goes with the larger powers in Europe.
It's the opposite for Finnoscandic countries. Unlike many other European countries, Norway, Sweden and Finland are all responsible for their own defense so we need fairly strong military forces for our size.
Do you think those countries are willing to defend the non-militarized ones for free? There is certainly some economic incentive or influence in play. U.S., France, and Australia are already spending on guns and the promise of violence is a commodity they are willing to sell.
@@tessjuel norway is apart of nato
@@2942jmon I know Norway is a part of NATO, I live there. But we're still responsible for our own defense, at least first line defense. If we are attacked and struggle to resist, we can trigger Article 50 and call for reinforcements of course but there are no foreign troops stationed in Norway.
Australia sure but why would USA arm their forces to defend New Zealand? Sure we are allies but USA doesn't really owe us anything in terms of defence
Hello from Croatia!
We are the peaceful sporty nation with lots to offer in tourism 😍
Hrvatska je srbija.............. no, just joking
my vime😂👍🙋🇨🇿
I can proove that, you are one of my favourite, greetings from Hungary!
"The Peaceful Sporty Nation"...love it!
You definitely punch above your weight in sport, especially football and tennis.
It's interesting how the index calculates what's peaceful. For example, they take into consideration "Access to weapons", "Weapons export", "Nuclear and heavy weapons", "military expenditure". So a country like the USA is getting red in all these areas because, for example, the constitution guarantees rights to bear arms, red on weapons export and military expenditure because of NATO and allies, red on nuclear of course.
In my books civilian armament is the only thing protecting security. Current "pacifist" societies will learn a hard lesson regarding the value of a well armed society.
@@KassieofCascadia Substantiate this rubbish claim.
@@agcons Oh yeah? So let’s just let China and Russia take over the world as police. We’ll see how that goes.
@@sickzappybeef9209 Yep, that's it all right: arm all citizens to the teeth or just sit back and let "those people" take over. I'm all convinced now; you're such a super genius.🐂💩
@@agcons The last two years of government abuse is not enough? No coincidence that the most armed states had the least strict COVID rules
You are not looking me in the eyes and saying Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Honduras, *HAITI* , Belarus, El Salvador, Algeria, Sri Lanka, Republic of the Congo, etc. Are more peaceful than the United States.
Well Saudi Arabia makes some sense but Belarus and freaking Haiti makes no sense
I bet all this countries have less school shootings than the USA. So from a childrens point of view, they are much more peaceful!
@@bezllama3325 Saudi Arabia might be more internally peaceful, but it's ever-present geopolitical bouts with Iran are IMO to damaging to the Middle East as a whole.
looks like they take jailed population into consideration. plus we got school shootings and stuff
There's a certain narrative being pushed by the globalist organizations who fund indexes like this. They hate a well-armed civilian populace.
Lots of love from 8th place Czechia❤ with GPI of 1.318
As a Czech I can confirm that our country is really safe
Jsme moc líní, na to abychom se tu zabíjeli navzájem
@@uwukoblizekuwu9437 I'm sure it must be the beer.🍺 It's a good way to keep people relaxed.
Love you from Croatia 🥰
yep, the worst that can happen is getting drunk and get your cash stollen by some creatures on public transport in prague😂
I like Czechia, it's really safe! Greetings from Hungary. :D
"In Asia, Japan is the only one in top ranking"
Singapore who is ranked higher but is too small to be visible on the map: T . T
As a Brazilian who just came back from Japan (after 12 years), I am really glad to see Japan on the list, even though I think it deserves a little bit more than #10! I have so many stories to share: one day, I totally forgot my wallet with money, IDs and cards inside my bike's basket on the street. One day later, I went outside and there my wallet was, at the same place with all my stuff. Dude, if it was here in Brazil, someone would have take the whole bike together... 😵💫 The same way, eveytime I found a wallet or iPhone on the streets, I returned it to the Police station. And I love this respect and consideration Japanese society has. I love being part of that. Yesterday I fianlly met our Portuguese neighbor (here in Brazil), and we were talking, at night, here on the street, outside our houses. I was so afraid that I had to check EVERY damn person (walking or on a motorbike, etc) who was passing us by (we always think someone will robber you...). The Portuguese guy said to me: "I can see you are very nervous just being here outside at night. You will never experience this feeling when you go to Portugal. Trust me!". Here I am, back from Japan, just "enjoying" my free time with my brazilian family, but ready to leave Brazil and go to study in Portugal. And I am glad (and makes me feel relieved) to see on this list that Portugal is one of the safest countries in Europe. I hope I have a peaceful time there. Saudações meus futuros colegas portugueses, aí vou eu! hehe And for my Japanese mates: 十二年間、大変お世話になった！卒業したら日本へ帰る予定～♪
YAY!! I've missed these. I'm glad to see this has made a come back.
Very surprised to see that Haiti 🇭🇹 didn’t make it to the list of least safe countries, considering recent events.
It’s definitely one of the most dangerous. You can watch travel videos of Indigo Traveler to see.
Go watch Indigo Travelers’ video of his trip to Haiti. The guys been all over and he called it one of the most “intense” and dangerous trips he’s had in a while. Couldn’t even get through the road leaving the airport without the driver paying a bribe to armed men.
That's because its not strictly safety that is measured. It is also a measure of militarism (which draws the US down very low). That's how it ranks lower than Haiti and other similarly unsafe countries.
@@ackvon9081 If that is so that means this index is heavily bias and shouldn't be taken to seriously.
Chaotic countries do not do the statistical gathering very well.
As an American I totally understand the US's relatively low rating for a developed country. Gun violence is our #1 red flag. Drug overdose another. I am an advocate for US adopting the Portuguese drug policy.
As an non American I advocate for the introduction of the right to bear arms in every "free" nation's constitution
@@KassieofCascadia You’d have to massacre A LOT of bears to supply every American with bear arms. What do they need bear arms for anyway?
@@KassieofCascadia Why would you need a gun
@@KassieofCascadia should kids also bear arms to feel "safer" at school? Or maybe just play with their new toys?
@@KassieofCascadia You sound dumb🙄
Very glad my country Singapore is ranked in the top 10! The peace and security has been one of the key things the citizens love. It always feel safe even walking in the streets alone in the middle of the night :)
Hi Singapore from Australia, been to your country several times, your neighbour Malaysia is also very safe to walk the streets at midnight
@@debbieanne7962 hi really hope so. I think Malaysia as generally nice. Unfortunately, my lady friend got mugged twice within 2 days in KL (twice lost her phones, which one was the replacement she bought there)… so I have my reservations… I’ve got a separate incident too, but shan’t go into details to respect Malaysian friends…
@@vennsim71 wow that's unlucky. My cousin and I had no problems there were security guards on every corner it seemed like. We'd wander around after midnight to look at the lights
@@debbieanne7962 just stay safe Debbie… there’s plenty of articles you can read online, and I shan’t dwell into details… the latest one involving a druggie smashing his car into a bunch of others. Can see online too…
@@vennsim71 a druggie smashing the car must be drunk I assume. Alcohol causes the most accidents involving drugs
Hi General Knowledge. I'm very interested in the topic autonomous status of a region. How many layers autonomy are possible and how did these regions acquired these status? I would appreciate if you could make a video about this.
I kinda want to see the US states broken down like this. See whose letting the team down lol
That’s pretty easy to figure out. The more urban a state the more dangerous. So the coasts and Texas drag the US down the most with Illinois getting a special mention. While states like Alaska, Wyoming, and Montana are likely in the Blue or at least Green. The rest of the states would likely be distributed in between them all. Note I’m not dissing urban living but it typically results in larger per capita police forces and greater degree of small arms gun ownership per capita. Likewise the obvious wealth gap in cities encourages higher crime rates as well. It’s also of note just our general extremely high military budget also drags the US down quite a bit on top of that.
The most dangerous states are mostly along the southern Mississippi delta. The west coast including California are actually safer. The mid-West is a bit rough, but isn’t that bad with crime. Texas is only slightly worst on average. New England is quite safe.
@@kristophersurma6459 Tennessee would be pretty safe if we got rid of Memphis. I say we give it to Mississippi since it's more like a Mississippi city anyway. It's vastly different compared to Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga
California, Illinois, and New York with their Communist and infringing gun laws, honestly. You'll notice that the most unsafe states are mostly, if not completely, Democrat-ran.
Well, check de description, there is "US Peace Index" on the same site, but to be fair - it is from 2010
Haiti should be RED.
Chile should be yellow uruguay should be potentially higher its really peacefull there
Quite proud of my country, PORTUGAL, always on the top safest for years 🇵🇹😊
It is, as long as you don't need to ride bike in portuguese streets and roads.
@@JoaoCarlosProencadeOCosta True! Unless you are in Aveiro 😉 We need to invest more in that matter, especially in terms of mentality and civility.
As of late Portugal has become too expensive to live in, plus new laws regarding taxes will get deep into retirees and peoples pockets, crazy taxes, rents are threw the roof, real estate getting sky high, how the heck are the locals dealing with this high cost of living now, because high cost locals seem getting fed up with foreigners living there now, truly crazy!! i remember the old Portugal!!
when you ignored Costa Rica while naming the green ones, I almost cried :'c
My bad!
Isn’t it amazing how most of the top 10 safest countries are the countries with relatively high tax rates and large governments? It’s almost as if paying for public services works! (Provided the taxes don’t end up with a corrupt government)
Nope, it's the culture
@@lucianboar3489 I think it's a bit of all those ; culture create standard of values, government valuing safety helps, if big government is not corrupt
also high level of average education seems to be a good indicator
It's more a case of people actually paying taxes rather than cheating the tax man as in Greece. Your faith in the government being able to efficiently deliver services makes you a cult of one.
low level of "multiculturalism" in all top countries
Anybody noticed that for *ongoing conflict* several contries have the same score, but they are just ranked alphabetically? What is the meaning of the top 5 in this case?
In Central America; the areas I felt the unsafest were in order:
1. El Salvador
2. The Mexican / Guatemalan border on the Guatemalan side.
3. Nicaragua
I felt the safest in Costa Rica which is ironic because Costa Rica has no military. The most dangerous part of Costa Rica are white criminals from US, Canada and Europe posing as tourists and setting up bases for criminal enterprises (ie: drugs, animal smuggling, hacking, money laundering, identity theft, etc.) That is a big problem in Costa Rica.
Another great video, General!
But I did not find the link for the Interactive Map. Only the ones to your Social Media and the Sponsor.
I forgot! Thanks for letting me know :) I added them now!
Little surprised we (Canada) fell out of the top 10. But as you suggested the difference between 2 and 15 is little more than a rounding error.
I am vacationing in Portugal next month, I know it is an EU country, but was surprised it ranked higher than we did.
As a South African, I'm surprised that the US is less safe than South Africa. I feel like that's a mistake, at least in the US there is an actual police presence. In South Africa, our police are lazy and are easily bribed to not do their jobs. The amount of Farm murders in South Africa is also an issue, many of these don't even get investigated. There is also a huge issue with Gender Base Violence (GBV) in South Africa, making it very unsafe to be a woman in South Africa. South Africa is currently having a Electricity Crisis and they switch off the electricity for 8 to 12 hours, that is also making crime rise with more break ins, and thefts.
It's not. The US got unfairly docked points for it's military. The ranking completely ignores the fact that many of those green countries rely on the US for their security via NATO
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv that's what I thought, I live in South Africa, I see the shit that happens here. This whole ranking is bullshit, we have more issues in this country. We are slowly getting worse, we are on the same direction that Zimbabwe went on. Soon South Africa will be in a total blackout with no electricity.
La clasificación no es de los países más seguros, evalúa más bien la pacifidad de un país (tensiones políticas, conflictos internos o externos, revueltas sociales...). Los países más seguros son:
1.Liechtenstein
2.Andorra
3.San Marino
4.Catar
5.Emiratos Arabes Unidos
6.Eslovenia
7.Suiza
8.ERITREA
9.Austria
10.OMÁN
DE LOS 200 PAÍSES EVALUADOS, ESTADOS UNIDOS SE ENCONTRARÍA REALMENTE EN EL LUGAR 124, MIENTRAS QUE SUDÁFRICA EN EL 192
USA supposed to be green
Hello from 8th safest country in the world! 😊I live in second largest city in Czech Republic and feel pretty safe most of the time.
Singapore is one of the safest place on Earth but it wasn't always like that. Gangs, drugs, unemployment, poverty and a lack of housing used to be common here but our Supreme Leader the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew managed to turn things around and here we are now.
Lee was so respected that the opposition leader refused to run against him. Lee never lost a single election from 1959 to 1990 (31 years). He could have ruled for life but he stepped down as PM in 1990. His son Lee Jr is the current PM of Singapore.
I lived in South Africa for 18 years and this is far from true. I know over 10 people who have been stabbed and our house was broken into 3 times. Shootings and gang wars are extremely common
Isn’t Mexico part of the North American Region? I was always taught that the regions of North and Central America was divided between Mexico and Guatemala. 🤔
Así es, la placa tectónica que separa norte américa de centro américa debería incluir México como parte de norte américa.
Yes, Mexico is part of North America, but North America is a continent, not a region. The continent of North America stretches from Canada to Panama. Central America is a region within North America. However, for the purposes of this study, they divided things even more into regional groups.
Mexico was part of NAFTA, so yes, Mexico is in North America...
@@stevetournay6103 Being part of a trade agreement doesn't determine what continent a country is in.
Also, I love how you have "The Trombone King" randomly playing in the background.
Thank you for the interesting video! I will certainly check the website as well. This is all invaluable information. I understand summarizing such a document is a laborious task, but I think it's good enough.
In would be interesting to see how some of these stats change for certain demographics. Some of these countries may be considered safe overall, but unsafe for say women or LGBTQ+ people or people of a certain age or ethnicity or income level.
Thank you i would rather live in south africa than any other african country because of that
Yes UAE and Qatar. I visited both before covid19. A 56 year old solo woman traveller being lectured to by hotel reception about the strict rules of not having a male in my hotel room
Not that I would but if you're paying for a room what you do there is none of their business!
@@debbieanne7962 My friend lived in the UAE for 10 years as a teenager/young adult and she said that it depends a lot on which part of the country you're in and who you talk to. If you're in Dubai where it's very touristy the rules are relaxed quite a lot for foreigners and it's relatively safe. Whereas when she was at uni, they had to make sure that girls weren't waiting at the bus stop by themselves and there were strict rules about visitors and curfews in the halls.
But then she also met lots of lovely people who didn't have those same attitudes against women/foreigners.
Well, women are most of the population so they wouldn't be green if that were the case
I agree. I live in top 15 country, but some areas of the country are very unfriendly towards LGBTQ+ community and can be very racist
As a Uruguayan this makes me happy. Despite all of our problems within the last 33 years people still try to do their best to get along.
La clasificación no es de los países más seguros, evalúa más bien la pacifidad de un país (tensiones políticas, conflictos internos o externos, revueltas sociales...). Los países más seguros son:
1.Liechtenstein
2.Andorra
3.San Marino
4.Catar
5.Emiratos Arabes Unidos
6.Eslovenia
7.Suiza
8.ERITREA
9.Austria
10.OMÁN
@@ivanovichdelfin8797¿¿¿¿????
Uruguay se encontraría realmente en el puesto 91.
@@ivanovichdelfin8797 Imposible. Aca podes denunciar sin miedo a represalias. Hay un sistema penal estable. Libertad de prensa para investigar. etc. etc.etc. Puede ser que ande al rededor del puesto 60 pero no pasa del 70 ni a palo.
@@BurnRoddy Hay muchos países más seguros que Uruguay. Que Uruguay se encuentre en ese puesto, no le convierte en un país inseguro, simplemente el riesgo que te pase algo es mayor a 90 países. Es, por contra, más seguro que países como Reino Unido o Francia. Y es uno de los países más seguros de América. El tercer país más seguro de Hispanoamérica, solo superado por Cuba y Panamá.
Very interesting video. Congrats
How are you less safe as a nation if you have a stronger military. Doesn't it make more sense that you are safer if you have a stronger military?
It is a good point, many things in the index are a little contradictory.
No it doesn't make you safer, as you are more likely to have be sending troops out to fight. More people will die. It's a bit of a meme to think military is for defense when it's use for aggression like the USA and Russia
I’d say it’s probably set up that way because most nations can legally use the military as a political police force. And very few with larger militaries don’t do so. But that’s just my personal theory and has mostly anecdotal evidence backing it up. So take it with a lump of salt.
@@LawrenceTimme Sending troops to other countries makes the other countries less safe, not the country sending them. The Americans are safe and secure in their own country with that massive military.
How does it make sense to say that Israel is less safe because they have a strong military to defend themselves. Would they still be a country if they didn't have a military strong enough to quickly win the Six Days War. Jordan, Egypt, and Syria all attacked Israel at the same time.
I don't understand the thought process of it is better or MORE PEACEFUL to be wiped out and subjugated than to have a military to defend youself.
@@axepagode33626 not really. If Americans weren't in the middle East 911 wouldn't have happened. We also had many bombings in Europe because we sent troops to the middle East.
I think America’s ranking is fair overall, but shouldn't be penalized for protecting the nations that are in the green.
You know, instead of explaining it, maybe ask questions about it. Norway way down on the list? Even after Hungary and Malaysia? Norway is one of the safest countries in the world, without the use of an oppressive police force, without close to a fascistic government. A true democracy with very little violence. A country where most people trust each other, without even knowing each other. A country where you can leave your kid in the stroller and have a coffee and a bite to eat, while the baby sleeps outside, unguarded. Christ almighty, I'm totally lost.
Really? Norway? Norway has the worst far right terrorism we have seen in the world. One lonely man killed 97 young students. That's awful and scary. I would never visit Norway p
I'm going to use this to plan my holidays. Panama, Costa Rica, here I come!
Your title is not correct. The ranking is not about the safest, but the most peaceful. The level of military expanditure and the possession of nuclear weapons have no impact on the safety inside a country.
Glad to see Ireland in the top 3. It's a nice safe place, super attractive to US students (more particularly their parents who factor in the safety side of things for their kids heading overseas to study).
I live in Armenia right now, amd I think yellow is a pretty accurate measure. But in the capital it's much higher (from experience).
Higher as in more dangerous or more safe?
If you take out like 5 cities it would turn green.
@@General.Knowledge Dangerous.
@@General.Knowledge safe, at least in more populated areas
@CorruptedPoison I think me and you have different experiences
Thank you 🙏
I feel like every country should be included in this since some of them are in the top 15 safest (luxembourg for example)
Sad to see that world wide peace has gone down the last few years.
Im proud of croatia about 15th place im from croatia and im happy that croatia is 15th❤🇭🇷
This was very interesting. Thank you for this video.
I’ve been longing for you to have another Magellan promo. I’ll get it in payday!
Apart from Japan, Singapore is also very safe.
Singapore probably is the best place to lives in Asia bcs they don't have toxic works ethics
it's the safest place on Earth
Am surprised by my country South Africa considering we've deteriorating these past two years. We are safer than the US? Am truly shocked
I suspect that’s largely due to gun ownership and military spending both of which the US tends to top the charts in. Likewise for criminality with our large prison populations.
It's not a safe index It's a peace index
Large prison populations and militaries lower the nation scores
The index isn't accurate
I am a native born and raised American. I live abroad as an expat. I carried a weapon in the military and would legally carry a weapon again if I ever decided to live in the USA again. I feel no need to own or carry a firearm where I now live and have no plans on returning to the USA to live. I definitely disagree about the Philippines. I have spend time all over Asia and feel that, Korea and China non-withstanding, the PI is very unsafe.
I moved to NZ from the UK and definitely feel safer here compared with the UK
ofcourse. these days UK looks like arabic country
Indian too
Come to Chicago bro 😂😂🔫
@@WorldWide2017lol
@@danielkolev9270Some Arabic countries are among the safest countries in the world
Ireland is generally safe but I wouldn’t recommend Temple Bar on a Saturday evening.
That awkward moment when the safest place in the world is a volcanic rock at the edge of the Arctic ocean... 😅🤣
Lol
If you have about 20 parameters, you can arrange the final list of countries, and re-generate the value of each parameter, try it, easy.
I have to say that they really dropped the ball on Haiti! That country right now should be in the top 10 most dangerous countries, but is listed as somewhat unsafe on this index.
Incredible video. Thank you for breaking this down so well!
what's the index of this ranking? couldn't understand. I can go out 2am in most Chinese cities at night alone but can you do the same in the UK or other European big cities?
La clasificación no es de los países más seguros, evalúa más bien la pacifidad de un país (tensiones políticas, conflictos internos o externos, revueltas sociales...). Los países más seguros son:
1.Liechtenstein
2.Andorra
3.San Marino
4.Catar
5.Emiratos Arabes Unidos
6.Eslovenia
7.Suiza
8.ERITREA
9.Austria
10.OMÁN
CHINA SE ENCUENTRA REALMENTE EN EL LUGAR 47, MIENTRAS QUE REINO UNIDO (UK) EN EL 110. EN MI PAÍS (ESPAÑA) TAMBIÉN PUEDES CAMINAR POR LA NOCHE SIN QUE TE PASE NUNCA NADA, ESTÁ EN EL PUESTO 45 (SIMILAR A CHINA)
The methodology employed by unesco for this index is laughable. Ignoring the ridiculous connotation that ‘peace’ is equivalent to domestic safety, the system has 7 categories that are measures of a nations ability to provide and maintain peace, domestic and foreign, which it classifies as negative 🤦♂️. All this index does is further entrench national biases and make ill witted suppositions on the back of data manipulation.
I definitely agree that they should have two separate indexes that depict behavior of a nation towards global security *and* another one that depicts the internal safety of its own citizens. Mixing up the two offers not the best view of either.
@@adityas9377 Saudi Arabia its not Afghanistan. I never see a news of a School shooting in SA.
@@CWFpresentes Yeah they have honor killings instead and will kill gays
@@CWFpresentes and USA isn’t the only country with school shootings believe it or not.
@@General.Knowledge you're a westoid, by your westoid logic, USA and UK should be least safe too coz they invaded so many countries ya dummy
A lot of weirdos on here say that Canada is some kind of dystopian dictatorship. It really isn’t bad, I do believe we should be ranked slightly lower than displayed because we aren’t on par with some of those European countries, but we’re still very safe, especially compared to our neighbours.
La clasificación no es de los países más seguros, evalúa más bien la pacifidad de un país (tensiones políticas, conflictos internos o externos, revueltas sociales...). Los países más seguros son:
1.Liechtenstein
2.Andorra
3.San Marino
4.Catar
5.Emiratos Arabes Unidos
6.Eslovenia
7.Suiza
8.ERITREA
9.Austria
10.OMÁN
CANADÁ SE ENCONTRARÍA, REALMENTE, EN EL PUESTO 67 DE LOS 200 PAÍSES EVALUADOS
It is. Trudeau enacted marshall law over some peaceful protests
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv 1. the ‘peacefulness’ of the protests are debated.
2. Yeah it was stupid of him to do that, but he’s being called out for it by the Supreme Court and opposition without suppression. That displays democracy and freedom of expression. If he was a dictator I wouldn’t be able to call him out on all his shit.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Trudeau is a Bozo y’all act like he’s some evil mastermind, he’s just an unprepared bumbling panderer, not god damn Stalin.
@@ivanovichdelfin8797 my apologies, I used the word ‘safety’ because that’s what the creator used. I understand this principle. However you must recognize that the reason why the researchers displayed the information in the way they did was to limit the amount of misleading results. Technically Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino are the safest. But that’s because their small area and populations just make crime and insecurity less likely. It’s like saying Monaco is the most population dense country in the world, it’s technically true, but that’s because Monaco is a small strip of harbour. In short, Canada’s ranking based off all the qualitative and quantitative variables are to avoid somewhat misleading data.
But we will never know how safe Greenland is, it must be dangerous if it isn't even on the interactional website's map
I think it's very safe, don't they have like 10 prisoners overall?
greenland and faroe islands are somewhere around iceland in that matter, if you combine their total population it is still less then 500k but literally if you do crime there you will get caught sooner or later (because escaping those 3 places can be difficult
@@General.Knowledge they have like the highest murder rate per capata
@@General.Knowledge 10 would be a lot for Greenland, generously assuming 100 people held in each, that is 2% of their whole population locked up
Ukraine is probably counted in Russia and Eurasia (seeing as it lies between Russia and Moldova), that would explain why it didn't influence Europe that much. Also French Guiana is likely green because it is just the colour of France (they dont tend to analyse French Guiana separate from France)
Kinda odd to not have Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus as part of Europe.
@@therealnuggetball i agree
Not should they. French Guyana is fully apart of France just like Hawaii is fully part of the US
As ukrainian I'm quite pissed on this report. Who made this report really bad with geography, or Moldova despite of Turkey due to this report is Eurasia, strange logic as for me
Remember also that the data for the '23 report are from earlier, and would have been in the process of collection before the current conflict broke out.
Nice video ❤😊
There is no interactive map in the description :( good video. Greetings from Ireland 😎
Added it now! :)
I noticed Australia, for example, gets a 5 (bad) score for having and buying heavy weapons. How does that make Australians unsafe? USA gets a 5 for military spending, that doesn't make its citizens unsafe because the weapons aren't used on its citizens. I think the rankings need to be adjusted to better show actual citizen safety.
La clasificación no es de los países más seguros, evalúa más bien la pacifidad de un país (tensiones políticas, conflictos internos o externos, revueltas sociales...). Los países más seguros son:
1.Liechtenstein
2.Andorra
3.San Marino
4.Catar
5.Emiratos Arabes Unidos
6.Eslovenia
7.Suiza
8.ERITREA
9.Austria
10.OMÁN
AUSTRALIA SE ENCONTRARÍA REALMENTE EN EL LUGAR 89
Yeh ,it's all bullshit,don't spend on the military, get invaded ,then how safe are you. Good defense adds to security of all in war or peace. New Zealand spends nothing on defense and send their criminals to Australia to make us less safe. Besides, most of the criminal activity in Australia recently has been between refugee gangs from Africa and slavic bikie gangs full of refugees from the Yugoslavia conflict and lebonese gangs which came as refugees in the 70s and gave birth to scumbags.
It would be interesting to have raw data and play with our own weights.
Iceland is currently ranking number 1 most saftest country in the world based on Global Peace Index ranking from 2020 to 2023. This country is a prime example for many countries to stay peaceful for a long time.
You mean become a tiny monocultural island where everyone is closely related?
Wow, only Canada, Japan and New Zealand are super-safe countries outside Europe
Is that really so surprising? Canada is largely protected under NORAD by the US so can afford to keep the dangerous “factors” low. New Zealand has US AND Australia acting as shields for it and since WWII Japan has been too afraid of its own shadow to build much of a military or armed civilian presence. I’d imagine 2023 index will show Japan and South Korea (and likely Europe) taking hits to their scores as they build up after the Ukraine invasion reminded everyone that things aren’t as safe as they thought they were.
and Singapore
@@kristophersurma6459 Most of the dangers in the low to medium countries are internal crime, so if anything the influence of the US is negative, with the US having far lower safety. It is only in the worst countries that war is concerned.
@@charlesunderwood6334 did you watch the video? Because I was only referring to the factors used to define safe in this video. For instance Canada doesn’t need a large military (one of the factors that reflects negatively in safety) BECAUSE it’s wholly under the protection of the NORAD defense treaty. If not for NORAD Canada would NEED a much higher military budget AND a larger military in general. Likewise, for New Zealand and it being protected via the Anglo-alliance which gives it (alongside its geographic isolation) two major protectors in its region (Australia and the US) thus affording it the ability to HAVE a minimalist military. Indeed the US’s alliances is what allowed Europe to rank so low as well as without NATO European national defense budgets and militaries would both necessarily be much larger as they wouldn’t have the powerful protection of the worlds most powerful military to dissuade invasions from the likes of Russia and indeed each other.
@@kristophersurma6459 Yes; there are both internal and external causes of danger. The US's investment on external has allowed the internal causes to get worse.
It sucks that being attacked by another country can affect your country's ranking even more than it appears to affect the attacking country. (looking at Yemen)
I mean it does suck but at the same time it makes sense. The index is about safety not peacefulness. A country being invaded would naturally become less safe while the invaders wouldn’t realistically be affected.
And Ukraine
@@kristophersurma6459 Ummm....what? The "Global Peace Index" is obviously about peacefulness, not safety. Duh. Or as the first sentence in the report says: "This is the 16 th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. "
@@drsnova7313 except if you look at literally any of the factors you can see they are more about safety not peacefulness. For instance how does percentage of the population considered criminals affect peacefulness?
Wait how is Hungary safer than Norway... 🤔 Anyways, I'm happy to hear that as a Hungarian
Iam Hungarian and I travel lot. It is true. I like many other countries, but we live in a good place.
@@gyozop yeah, maybe they meant Budapest. It's a majestic city, that's well-developed and is mostly safe
Unlike Miskolc 😂
coz guys like the author of the video are biased liars
This report is not about safety, it measures peacefulness, whatever that is. While I'm sure that there is strong correlation between the ranking in the report and safety, safety is not what the report measures.
The murder rate in The USA is a little over 7 times that in the UK. The death rate from road traffic accidents is over 5 times as high. The death rate by shooting is well over 100 times as high. People will respond "but you have lots of stabbings instead." It is true that the death rate from stabbing is higher than in the US, but only by 20% and is already included in the overall murder rate. And the majority of UK deaths by shooting are suicide. So we have far fewer guns, safer cars and better drivers.
video suggestion: National anthems (particularly Europe) maybe do a video for each continent/area, going into a little history of the anthem and how the country got it etc., idk
I’m not sure about this, the last two times I was in Ireland I had too much to drink and fell and hit my head.
Dam Irish for not having concrete replaced with pillows
Yup, I definitely would want to live in China over USA, definitely. I definitely wouldn’t get executed for saying anything bad about their ruler, definitely not.
This is about safety, not quality of life. The US is a better place to live, but China is safer
@@top10cars2 not having government tyranny is a quality of life?
@@itsrin868 What do you mean?
@@top10cars2 People that go to (live in) “Insert country” have been disappearing, but don’t worry, you are safe, it’s just a quality of life issue
@@top10cars2 dictatorships are not safe
American here that lived in the UK for 9 years. I've lived in L.A., S.F., NYC and London throughout my life. Only in Lindon was I physically assaulted - punched in the face for no reason by a thug while walking home one night. Just stating my experience.
How Costa isn't blue is absolutely insane. 🇨🇷 Pura Vida!
There is no European country with crime rates even close to as high as Costa Rica. But it's safe for Latin America
Good to see Canada still ranked high, but tbh it feels less and less safe in my city.
i was thinking the same, lol. Toronto subway is a try not to get pushed onto the tracks challenge
@@whivvy It happens about once every year or two, but there have been three incidents in the past two months. Two victims climbed back up onto the platform uninjured, while the third intended victim never fell. In any case I don't think a mere 3 recent incidents should have a real bearing on anything. If you disagree, then at least consider that there have only been 3 homicides in total in Toronto so far this year. Feel safe now?
It's the influence of US culture.
La clasificación no es de los países más seguros, evalúa más bien la pacifidad de un país (tensiones políticas, conflictos internos o externos, revueltas sociales...). Los países más seguros son:
1.Liechtenstein
2.Andorra
3.San Marino
4.Catar
5.Emiratos Arabes Unidos
6.Eslovenia
7.Suiza
8.ERITREA
9.Austria
10.OMÁN
CANADÁ SE ENCONTRARÍA EN EL LUGAR 67 DE LOS 200 PAÍSES EVALUADOS
@@ivanovichdelfin8797 You raise a good point about the purpose of the index discussed in the video. General Knowledge made a huge error in saying it measures safety when it's the Peace Index and only measures safety in part.
But you went off the rails with your own insane safety rankings. Where did you get those?
This index is a good first orientation when it comes to travelling and international business. However, it needs to be mentioned that not every person has the same level of safety in each country: Gender, skin colour/ethnicity, political views online, religion and wealth also play a role in the person's experience.
E.g.: I would argue that being LGBTQ in Saudi Arabia makes the experience significantly less safe than being in Turkey because although he letter has an overall lower safety score, Saudia Arabia has much harsher laws as well as a religious police which results in imprisonment, torture and execution of LGBTQ people while in Turkey, people may face social rejection but certainly not any legal consequences for simply existing.
Another case would be visiting China as a person with dark brown skin: Whereas in Somalia, that wouldn't be an issue at all, there are Chinese restaurants, cafés and other business which have a sign outside their door stating that people of a certain ethnicity are not welcome - most commonly: black people, Indians and Japanese.
Some of these rankings are absolutely nuts. Jamaica (don’t go anywhere at night) ranks safer than Thailand (go anywhere anytime)….
this video does seem a bit misleading, as it seems to conflate “safe” with “peaceful”… you could theoretically be safe in a country which is nonetheless engaged in military conflict in another region of the world, no? maybe i’m not fully following
I’m glad to see my country is ranked 10!🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵
La clasificación no es de los países más seguros, evalúa más bien la pacifidad de un país (tensiones políticas, conflictos internos o externos, revueltas sociales...). Los países más seguros son:
1.Liechtenstein
2.Andorra
3.San Marino
4.Catar
5.Emiratos Arabes Unidos
6.Eslovenia
7.Suiza
8.ERITREA
9.Austria
10.OMÁN
JAPÓN SE ENCUENTRA EN EL LUGAR 33 DE LOS 200 PAÍSES EVALUADOS
I also live in Japan and am surprised Japan is not 1 or 2. It's incredibly safe here. Crime is low and one's chances of being "mugged" are almost nil. However, when I heard the more detailed explanation I thought that because some minorities are discriminated against, gay marriage is illegal here and Japan has the death penalty these factors may slightly lower Japan's score.
@@elfrjzthat's not going to be happened Japan has aging population problem they need new generation so gay marriage will never be legalized in japan
The safeness of Finland completely depends on how Russia acts
So? It's safe now.
The safeness of Finland completely depends on how Türkiye acts
@@nc3826
You think Russia is going to invade unless Finland gets in NATO? They have their hands full in Ukraine and after that, no matter how it ends, they will have to do some serious rebuilding and restructuring on their armed forces before even thinking about another war, excuse me, special military operation.
@@FINNSTIGAT0R Venäjällä ei ole mitään syytä hyökätä Suomeen, Ukrainan sota on ollut käynnissä vuodesta 2014.
@@dominokeksitonhyvia8806
Niin, en liene sanonut mitään mikä olisi tuota vastaan? Mutta samaa mieltä.
was quite surprised to see the netherlands so far down so i went digging through the report and were near the bottom in militarisation. mainly because of arms exports i think (Thales and the like), possibly also coz we store some nuclear bombs from the USA.