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Bulgaria is 21st safest country out of 38 countries in Europe

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Bulgaria is the 21st safest country out of 38 countries in Europe, ranking between Poland and Spain. This country gets 1.643 points measured by the Global Peace Index (GPI) in the ranking of the NGO World Population Review.  

The Global Peace Index measures a country’s level of Negative Peace using three domains of peacefulness. It comprises 23 indicators of the absence of violence or fear of violence. The three domains are: militarization, safety and security, and ongoing domestic and international conflict. These domains are then put together to form the peace index.

For the 10th year, first place goes to Iceland, with 1.124 GPI, out of the countries members of the EU the top position goes to Denmark with 1.310, followed by Ireland, Austria, Portugal and Slovenia. Bottom of the ranking in Europe are Russia 3.142, Ukraine 3.043 and Belarus 2.248. Out of the EU countries, France has the lowest GPI ranking – 1.939.



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