Talk:Global Peace Index
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My question about the criticisms is, how does freedom affect peace? While some of the countries listed may actually give its citizens less personal freedoms, the index is measuring peace, not freedom. Oranges91 01:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
GEORGIA?
Graphic
I note the second graphic "Change of number of countries in each GPI class from 2007-2009." has the wrong symbol for less than on the bottom legend entry. UselessFactMan (talk) 10:15, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
2008 list
New 2008 list should replace the 2007 list. http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi/results/rankings/2008/
If anyone have the time to update, please do :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by UlrikOldenburg (talk • contribs) 21:21, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
- Semi done, though it could use some make over. If someone can point in the direction of a proper template I can regenerate it in a flash, -anon.
2007/2008
Many of the references are dated 2008, they should probably be 2007. Stevage 01:57, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
- fixed --Spitzl 11:14, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
ex aequo
Ex aequo countries should be taken into account. Why is Canada 8th and Portugal 9th if both have a 1.481 score? Because Canada comes first alphabetically?... That is not very scientific. The correct list should have two countries ranked as 8th and no country ranked as 9th. The same is true for Qatar and Costa Rica (ex aequo at 30th), France and Vietnam (34th), Kazakhstan and Bahrain (61st), etc. Gazilion (talk) 14:53, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Ireland
I'm confused by this article. Is Ireland (island) listed 4th? or the Republic of Ireland listed 4th? GoodDay (talk) 22:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
I've fixed it up; on the assumption that the latter was meant. GoodDay (talk) 22:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Rankings table redone
I've rebuilt the rankings table from scratch using information from the two "Results" PDFs linked from the site (see last footnote). The main differences are:
- The "change" numbers are now correct; they were completely wrong before. Also, I've had to format them somewhat strangely: unfortunately, if any non-digit characters are used in any cells (like a hyphen or minus sign), apparently the column gets sorted as text (thus, for example, 10 sorts between 1 and 2, and not after both); the leading zeros help to get a more reasonable sort order (but still not completely correct).
- Green and red colors are used, as in the PDFs, to indicate the highest and lowest 20% of peace scores in each year.
- dcljr (talk) 05:36, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Just my opinion
WTF, USA should be the last country in the list!!!!! They had troubles with Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, North Corea, Mexico, Spain, India, and a lot of more countries!! Iraq doesn't. I don't want to have trouble with U.S.A. people, but their goverment always sucks... Sorry for my english ja... from South America, Meee! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.252.172.203 (talk) 13:49, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
I agree with the you. I can't remember the last time USA was not involved in a war. I am from India, and the last time we were in a war was in the 70's. And India has never invaded any nation ever, so how come it is ranked below USA, who thinks that any rising country is a threat? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.238.117.1 (talk) 21:32, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
I think USA is more peaceful than Inida, there are always troubles between India and Pakistan. I am from China —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.194.204.10 (talk) 08:21, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Despite what you guys think, the USA is far more peaceful. Lemniwinks (talk) 02:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
the Colors
are too mixed. Please use more distinct colors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fs (talk • contribs) 00:07, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
PR CHINA
Blue? HAHA
UK
Unconstructive am i ? well let me tell you i lived all my life in the UK and its peacefuller more peacefuller than those other countries Botswana or time here and we my parents go to Pakistan all the time fun time there too, this is bias u guys are gay, you don't know crap all. With all due respect you may delete this comment if you cant face them. Japan Germany France are not more peacefuller than the UK there are nazies there and all sorts of world gangs, you guys live in Australian and seriously don't know anything.
Russia
Russia good country.Our friend : Ukraine,Azerbaijan,Armenia,Belarus,Serbia,Kazakhstan,Latvia(dont politic),Finland(i dont know politic),Carea,China,Japan(i dont know politic),Lithuania(dont politic),Moldova,Romania(dont politic),Norway(i dont know politic),India,Maldives(dont know politic),Spain,France,Italia,Macedonia,Kosovo,Montenegro,Bosnia & Herzegovina,Croatia,Estonia(dont politic),Germany(politic - OK),Israel(dont politic),Cyprus,Greece,Denmark(dont politic),Bulgaria(dont politic),Egypt(dont politic),Slovenia,Czechia,Swiss(i dont know politic),Kyrgystan,Uzbekistan,Turkey(the breakdowns in last time),Turkmenistan,Tajikistan,Thailand(Dont know politic),Malaysia(Dont know politic),Tunisia(dont know politic),Canada(dont know politic),Austria(dont politic),Hungary,Georgia(dont politic and the breakdowns in last time),Netherlands,Venezuela,Colombia(dont know politic),Brazil(dont know politic),USA(dont politic) - And 131 place? I like this is country and next and Russian people are like.
THEY SIMPLE DONT KNOW RUSSIAN PEOPLE !!!
Vikings
How the mighty have fallen...ha ha ha...Valhalla has frozen (or thaw?) over, Thor and Odin must rolling on their grave. Funny how they dominate the rakings.