Morocco Slips to 80th Place in Global Positive Peace Rankings

The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has published its latest report on the Positive Peace Index. In this report, positive peace is defined as "the attitudes, institutions and structures that create and maintain peace in societies". The overall score of the Positive Peace Index has improved by 2.4% since 2009, with 126 countries progressing in positive peace, 36 countries deteriorating and one country maintaining almost the same level of "peace", the IEP reveals, noting that eight of the nine regions of the world have improved in positive peace from 2009 to 2020, except North America.

Globally, Sweden tops the ranking with 1.228 points, followed by Denmark, Finland, Norway, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The Central African Republic (160th), Yemen (161st), South Sudan (162nd) and Somalia (163rd) close the podium. With a score of 3.177 points, Morocco ranks 80th globally ahead of Algeria (96th) and Egypt (114th). Although it falls 7 places compared to the previous edition, the kingdom remains in the category of countries with a "high level of positive peace", the report also reveals.

At the regional level, Morocco ranks 8th in the MENA region, behind Israel (34th global rank), the United Arab Emirates (37th), Kuwait (46th), Qatar (49th), Tunisia (54th), the Sultanate of Oman (55th), Bahrain (72nd) and Saudi Arabia (79th), and ahead of Jordan (83rd) and Algeria (96th).