Top 20 Safest Countries In Africa Today 2022

What’s the safest country in Africa today?.

Here is the list of the top 20 safest countries in Africa as of this year ranked by each African country GPI.

GPI which means GLOBAL PEACE INDEX is used to rank how peaceful and safe a particular country is every year.

The Global Peace Index (GPI), created by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), is a yearly measure of relative peacefulness across 163 countries, using data to rank nations on the basis of societal safety, levels of militarisation, and international and domestic conflicts.

Taking into account factors such as militarisation, freedom of speech, violent and sexual crime rates and natural disasters to rank African countries according to their safety.

These are the top 20 most Safe countries in the continent of Africa today.

Worldwide, Iceland continues to be the most peaceful nation globally, a position it has held since the inaugural index in 2008.

By Global Peace Index, Mauritius is currently the safest country in Africa this year.

Below is the list of the 20 safest African nations as of this year.

Safest African Countries and Their GPI:

1. Mauritius 🇲🇺 — GPI 1.98
2. Ghana 🇬🇭 — GPI 1.72
3. Botswana 🇧🇼  — GPI 1.75
4. Sierra Leone — GPI 1.81
5. Gambia 🇬🇲  — GPI 1.85
6. Senegal i — GPI 1.86
7. Tanzania 🇹🇿  — GPI 1.89
8. Malawi 🇲🇼 — GPI 1.91
9. Equatorial Guinea — GPI 1.92
10. Namibia 🇳🇦  — GPI 1.93
11. Burkina Faso
12. Mozambique 🇲🇿
13. Zambia 🇿🇲
14. Lesotho 🇱🇸
15. Egypt 🇪🇬
16. Eswatini
17. Madagascar 🇲🇬
18. Morocco 🇲🇦
19. Rwanda 🇷🇼
20. Djibouti 🇩🇯

As of this year, these are the safest Countries in Africa.