Vision of Humanity measures various peace indexes across the globe, from looking at specific countries and their states to the whole world.

It’s one of the most comprehensive Global Peace Indexes around and, now in its 10th year, has seen a historical decline in world peace in the last decade.

Here are four key findings from this year, according to information on their website:

Vision for Humanity also noted that countries and global institutions are more bent on spending money to create and contain violence, but are doing very little work on peace.

They suggest that “the key to reversing the decline in peace is through building Positive Peace – a holistic framework of the key attitudes, institutions and structures which build peace in the long term.”

Iceland comes out as the most peaceful country, followed by Denmark, Austria, New Zealand, and Portugal. The least peaceful countries are Syria, South Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia.

Here’s what the world is currently looking like, with green being the most peaceful.

And South Africa? We rank 126/163:

The Vision of Humanity put together a video explaining the various factors that affect the global peace index:

[source:visionofhumanity]