Global Peace Index: Yemen suffers worst drop on peacefulness in 2016
The country’s civil war has escalated into a regional conflict, due to the intervention of Saudi Arabia and a coalition of Gulf States.
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), which produces the index, said Yemen was the “standout example” of a breakdown of peace in the Middle East that has seen the world as a whole become a more dangerous place in 2016 than at any point in the past decade.
And Yemen’s peacefulness “score”, calculated based on a host of factors such as deaths from conflict and military spend, dropped a staggering 15 per cent in the past 12 months – deteriorating twice as fast as Ukraine, the next-worst performer year on year.