Viet Nam moves up in 2023 Global Peace Index

With the overall score of 1.745, Viet Nam is among the nations with "high" level of peace, along with Germany, the Netherlands, Malaysia, the UK, Laos, Indonesia, South Korea, Argentina, Chile, and Cyprus.

In the Asia-Pacific region with 19 countries and territories measured in the index, Viet Nam is the 7th most peaceful place.

In the GPI ongoing domestic and international conflict domain, Viet Nam's peacefulness is squarely among the top one third of countries measured with 1.403 in score.

The Southeast Asian nation is also placed in the top third in the societal safety and security, as well as the militarization domains.

The study also estimates that Viet Nam suffers about 6 percent in percentage of GDP, or US$1,200 per capita as the economic costs of violence, making the country the 99th in terms of being most affected by violence.

This year the Institute for Economics and Peace ranks 163 countries and territories based on three criteria: the level of societal safety and security, the extent of ongoing domestic and international conflict, and the degree of militarization./.