Global Peace Index resources — see which countries are the most and least peaceful, mapped and ranked worldwide.
Safety is the quiet factor behind every travel decision. The Global Peace Index ranks countries by how peaceful they are, weighing ongoing conflict, crime and violence, militarisation and political stability into a single comparable score updated each year.
It's a more rigorous read than headlines, which tend to over-dramatise some places and ignore others. Use it to sanity-check a destination, but always pair it with current, country-specific government advisories for the up-to-the-minute picture.