Bangladesh ranked among the least peaceful countries in the world in the Global Peace Index 2019, slipping down eight notches from 2018, reports The Daily Star on June 13.The country was placed 101 out of 163 countries and received a global score of 2.128 in the index. It had ranked 93 with a score of 2.084 last year. A total of USD 22,297.4 million was the cost of violence in Bangladesh, which was three percent of the GDP, the report said.The GPI covers 99.7 per cent of the world’s population, using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources.