Every two years, since 2015, analysts at The Economist Intelligence Unit have ranked the safest cities in the world. For evaluation, 76 indicators were invented, divided into 5 categories:
- Digital data protection,
- Health
- Infrastructure
- Personal safety
- Environmental safety (added only in 2022).
Since the beginning of the rating, its leader has been Tokyo, but in the 2022 ranking - the first after the pandemic - Copenhagen took first place.
Who else was included in the rating and in what positions?
- Copenhagen = 82.4 points out of 100,
- Toronto = 82.2 points,
- Singapore = 80.7,
- Sydney = 80.1,
- Tokyo = 80,
- Amsterdam = 79.3,
- Wellington = 79,
- Hong Kong = 78.6,
- Melbourne = 78.6,
- Stockholm = 78.
At the very end of the list were Karachi (39.7 points, Pakistan) and Yangon (39.5 points, Myanmar). In the UNITED STATES, the palm of the "safe" championship was taken, oddly enough, by New York (11th place in the ranking), in China - Shanghai (30th place), in Latin America - Santiago (the capital of Chile with 33rd place), in Africa - Johannesburg (South Africa, 47th place).
In many ways, Copenhagen won precisely because in 2022 a new rating criterion was introduced - environmental safety (for example, in the category "Health Safety" the Danish capital is only 26th). By the way, environmental safety is more often observed in "medium-budget" cities: among the amazing examples here are Kuala Lumpur (10th place in this indicator), Rio de Janeiro (8) and God-forsaken Bogota (as much as 4th place).
