Ghana has dropped six spots to 61st place globally and 7th in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 2025 Global Peace Index (GPI), according to the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).
The report indicates that currently Ghana lags behind regional leaders in terms of peace, including Mauritius (ranked 26th in the world), Botswana (ranked 43rd), Namibia (ranked 50th), The Gambia (ranked 55th), Sierra Leone (ranked 57th), and Madagascar (ranked 59th).
This is a further drop from prior years. In 2024, Ghana ranked 55th globally and 4th in Sub-Saharan Africa, down from 51st globally in 2023.
Ghana’s downward trend over the past five years, from 38th in 2021 to 61st in 2025, signals growing domestic tensions. The overall decline mirrors broader regional and global trends.
Sub-Saharan Africa continues to face escalating conflict rates, with an average peace score drop of 0.17% in 2025. Globally, peace has deteriorated to its lowest level since the GPI began tracking in 2008.
This is the 19th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness, covering 99.7 per cent of the world’s population and produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP).
The 2025 Global Peace Index report says the world became less peaceful for the 13th time in the last 17 years, with the average level of country peacefulness deteriorating by 0.36 per cent over the prior year.
This is the sixth consecutive year that global peacefulness has deteriorated.
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