{"id":12242,"date":"2026-06-10T14:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2tm.eu\/?post_type=news&#038;p=12242"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:36:37","slug":"slovenia-ranked-7th-among-the-safest-countries-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/2tm.eu\/en\/news\/slovenia-ranked-7th-among-the-safest-countries-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenia Ranked 7th Among the Safest Countries in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to data from the Institute for Economics and Peace, Slovenia ranked 7th out of 163 countries in the 2017 ranking of the world\u2019s safest countries, improving its position by three places compared with the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Institute for Economics and Peace assesses safety levels using 23 indicators, including crime rates, relations with neighbouring countries, political terror, arms imports and exports, the number of refugees, homicide rates, and suicide rates. Each indicator is scored on a scale from 1 to 5, with lower scores indicating a higher level of safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the tenth consecutive year, Iceland topped the global ranking, while Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq occupied the bottom positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top 10 safest countries in the world, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace, are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Iceland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Zealand<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Portugal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Austria<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Denmark<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Czech Republic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slovenia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Switzerland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ireland<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/siol.net\/novice\/svet\/to-so-najvarnejse-drzave-na-svetu-442681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">siol.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to data from the Institute for Economics and Peace, Slovenia ranked 7th out of 163 countries in the 2017 ranking of the world\u2019s safest countries, improving its position by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12009,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"news_category":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.5 (Yoast SEO v20.5) - 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