This map shows 2011 United States Peace Index (USPI) ranking.
The U.S. Peace Index is the first national peace index produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace. Similar in concept to the Global Peace Index, it uses "the absence of violence" as the definition of peace. Five indicators reflecting the incidence or absence of peace have been selected to construct the Index because of the ability to scale these indicators in a consistent way across many nations.
The five indicators are:
- Number of homicides per 100,000 people
- Number of violent crimes per 100,000 people
- Number of jailed population per 100,000 people
- Number of police employees per 100,000 people
- Availability of small arms
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