Global Peace Index 2025
Institute for Economics and Peace · Published June 2025
Latest edition: June 2025 · Next expected: June 2027
This ranking is misleading. The soft half is expert coding by analysts whose selection and scoring rules are not published, so that part cannot be checked.
What the report claims
The Global Peace Index ranks 163 countries on 23 indicators across three domains: societal safety and security, ongoing domestic and international conflict, and militarisation. India ranks 115th of 163 with a score of 2.229, up one place from 116th in 2024 with the score unchanged. The construct is negative peace, the absence of violence and fear of violence, so military capability and heavy weaponry count against a country by design. The quantitative half cites public series such as UCDP conflict data, SIPRI military expenditure, UNODC homicide figures, and UNHCR displacement counts.
The Credibility Score, dimension by dimension
- Methodology transparency / replicability
- 7 / 20
- Source verifiability + measurement integrity
- 9 / 25
- Internal consistency of India’s place
- 6 / 20
- Construct validity / India coverage
- 5 / 10
- Independence and funding
- 6 / 20
- Accountability (corrections, versioning)
- 2 / 5
Funding and independence: The Institute for Economics and Peace is a non-profit charity registered in Australia, founded and principally funded by Steve Killelea and his charitable foundation, and it files audited financial statements with national regulators. Its operational funding has historically relied heavily on that single founder, with no itemized donor disclosures in the report itself. IEP states an explicit mission to change how peace is measured and pursued, runs advocacy around its Positive Peace framework, and is governed by a board, with no rule published separating the country ranks from the founder or from its advocacy work.
Sources: Institute for Economics and Peace, Global Peace Index 2025
Updated 9 November 2026