10 Most Peaceful Nations on the Planet

6. Austria: A Central European nation, Austria has climbed up two places in the index, to garner 6^th rank. This country has reported a gentler environment where brutal acts have reduced drastically over the years as given by the Compilers of the Political Terror Scale.

Violent crimes are extremely low in Austria according to IEP, and military spending is less than one percent of its GDP. The indicators of internal peace of Austria points to a broadly harmonious society with the tallies for the violent crime and homicide rate still at the lowest out of the 162 nations surveyed. The political scene is mostly stable with the coalition of the Austrian People’s Party and the Social Democratic Party.

5. Czech Republic: A relatively new country, the Czech Republic gained its independence from the Soviet Bloc in 1993 due to the Velvet Revolution and its subsequent split with Slovakia. After the division of Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic has largely concentrated on building a strong capitalist economy and creating a stable climate for investment. In 2009, the Human Development Index ranked the Czech Republic as a country of ‘Very High Human Development.’ Renowned mostly for its magnificent capital city, Prague and breathtaking natural beauty, the Czech Republic draws tourists from all over the world and is the 5^th most peaceful nation in the world.

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