Bangladesh has climbed seven notches from 2020 and secured the 91st position among 163 countries in Global Peace Index (GPI) for 2021 released by the Institute of Economics and Peace on June 17, reports The Daily Star. The GPI cumulatively measures safety and security, militarisation, and frequency of ongoing conflicts to fix ranks from most peaceful to least peaceful countries. Bangladesh's improvement this year makes the country third most peaceful in South Asia, with an overall score of 2.068 behind Bhutan and Nepal.