Talk:Global Peace Index

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Question- how many countries in the list ? Can we put the total number in the first paragraph of the article ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill Ladd (talk • contribs) 20:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Question- how many countries in the list ? Can we put the total number in the first paragraph of the article ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill Ladd (talk • contribs) 20:49, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

GEORGIA?

The Index ranks 144 countries, up from 121 in 2007 and aims at adding more countries every year, as data becomes available. Who edits this page? Some of the criticism might have to be looked at as well as parts of the text, since the index now ranks Iceland, North Korea etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Camillaschippa (talk • contribs) 01:56, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

fixed --Spitzl 11:14, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Actually, these countries had a different score, beyond the 3rd decimal point. So the correct approach would be to include the 4th decimal point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Camillaschippa (talk • contribs) 01:58, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

I've fixed it up; on the assumption that the latter was meant. GoodDay (talk) 22:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Despite what you guys think, the USA is far more peaceful. Lemniwinks (talk) 02:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

the Colors

are too mixed. Please use more distinct colors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fs (talk • contribs) 00:07, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

PR CHINA

Blue? HAHA

Making Comments

Please refrain from making complaints regarding a country's placement on the list relative to other countries. The discussion section is designed to allow editors to share ideas on how to improve the article. 82.178.103.248 (talk) 15:06, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.

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.

216.164.62.93 (talk) 01:05, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Russian Federation Rank

What is it? That List - very fun. Russian Fediration - 142 XD LOL It is offensively too/ =( —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.77.133.248 (talk) 23:45, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You should feel offended. While yes, Russia has been involved in at least 2 internal wars (Chechnya, Dagestan) and the South Ossetia conflict in Georgia... The U.S. has initiated Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan wars (And yes there are U.S. Soldiers in Pakistan whom are fighting/dying). Now they want to invade Iran under the pretext of attempting to build 'Nuclear Weapons'. Not to mention, the several conflicts in which you don't hear about often. (ie. Somalia,Philippines) What I don't understand is why U.S. is above Iran. Since the Revolution, the Islamic Republic of Iran hasn't invaded any country. In fact, Iraq invaded Iran, starting Iraq/Iran war. Also, a nuclear weapons manufacturer, deployer and two-time user of these Weapons of Mass Destruction which resulted in an estimated 200,000 civilian deaths is hassling a nation that current evidence from IAEA suggests to be simply trying to find an alternate power source and fissionable use for medical purposes. If it's because of 'Human Rights', the 'Economist Intelligence Unit' should study KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). The Mutaween (Religious Police) there are not much different from those in Iran but KSA should be ranked towards the very bottom because of Regime's corruption. Excuse me for the long speech. :) I know at least a few people will see it this way too.☼Ṅạẇạḟ Ṙạṡḥiḍ☼ (talk) 08:33, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Map to old

Can someone please update the map to the latest 2010 information?? Thx for the effort in advance —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hammer of Habsburg (talk • contribs) 18:33, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What about Tibet people?

They shouldn't be off of the charts! I hope it's at least weighed in with China's ratings. Tibet should remain recognized by all countries that remain allied with Tibet. Don't turn your backs on people in need of your good will!