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  • Violence impacted India’s economy by $679.80billion in 2016, 9% of India’s GDP, or $525 per person
  • The economic impact of violence on the global economy totalled $13.6 trillion or 13.3% of gross world product, equivalent to 11 times the size of global foreign direct investment
  • The economic impact of violence was $137 trillionover the last decade - greater than global GDP in 2015
  • The world became less peaceful in 2016, reinforcing an underlying decade-long deterioration in world peacefulness driven primarily by increased terrorism and higher levels of political instability
  • Refugees and displaced persons have risen dramatically over the last decade, doubling to approximately 60 million people between 2007 and 2016, nearly 1% of the world’s population
​​, Founder and Executive Chairman of the IEPSteve KilleleaNote to EditorsAbout the Global Peace Index (GPI)About the Institute for Economics and Peace