Risk of genocide in Ghana 2024

In the period between 2023 and 2024, the risk of mass murder in Ghana stood at 0.2 percent, compared to the 0.7 percent in the preceding year. In comparison to the previous years observed, the risk of genocide has slightly fluctuated in the country. As of 2023-2024, Ghana ranked 97th among 166 nations. Furthermore, there has been no record of mass killing in the country since 1945. Overall, on the Global Peace Index, Ghana achieved a rate of 1.8 in 2023. The peace indicator ranges from one to five, where the lower the score, the more peaceful the country.

Risk of mass killing in Ghana between 2017 and 2024

Characteristic	Risk rate
2023-2024	0.2%
2022-2023	0.7%
2021-2022	1.1%
2020-2021	0.7%
2019-2020	0.8%
2018-2019	1%
2017-2018	1%

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Release date

March 2024

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Region

Ghana

Survey time period

2017 to 2024

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The source does not indicate a release date. The date of access was taken as the release date.
The source measures the risk by identifying historical instances of mass killing, discerning patterns that distinguished countries that experienced mass killing from others, and then applying that model to the latest publicly available data to estimate the likelihood of a new mass killing.

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