The World Has Become More Peaceful And Despite Wars In Syria And Middle East Fewer People Are Dying

(Daily Mail)

Julian Robinson 25 February 2019 11:34

The world has become a more peaceful place with fewer people dying in armed conflicts, scientists have claimed.

Experts from Norway's Peace Research Institute Oslo examined statistics from 'all possible' wars, the countries involved, and how many people were killed.

Research director Håvard Mokleiv Nygård suggested the Korean War in the early 1950s may have been a 'breaking point' signalling a change in the number of people killed in battle.

'The wars after the Korean War (1950–1953) have killed a quarter as many people as the wars before the Korean War,' he said.

'The change after this breaking point is an indication that the world has become a more peaceful place,' adding Nygård, whose researchers work alongside statisticians at the University of Oslo.

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