Ukraine entered top 20 most dangerous countries in the world

Institute for Economics and Peace has included Ukraine in the TOP 20 rate of the most dangerous countries in the world 2020.

The rating is based on 23 different indicators, including political terror, deaths from internal conflict and murder rate.

The report evaluates 163 countries.

Ukraine ranked 14th in 2020. Among the post-Soviet countries, the situation is worse only in Russia which ranked 10th.

TOP-20 includes:

1.     Afghanistan
2.     Syria
3.     South Sudan
4.     Yemen
5.     Iraq
6.     Somalia
7.     Central African Republic
8.     Libya
9.     Congo
10.     Russia
11.     Pakistan
12.     Turkey
13.     Sudan
14.     Ukraine
15.     DPRK
16.     Nigeria
17.     Lebanon
18.     Israel
19.     Mali
20.     Venezuela.

Iceland, New Zealand and Portugal turned out to be the safest countries.

According to researchers, Ukraine is suffering from population declining due to high emigration rates, low birth rates, and high death rates, is in conflict with Russia to its east, and is beset by corruption.

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