Singapore ranked world’s second safest city: EIU report
SINGAPORE — Singapore has retained its ranking as the world’s second safest city and topped several categories of urban safety, a biennial report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released on Thursday (29 August) showed.
The Republic scored 91.5 points overall in the third edition of the EIU’s Safe Cities Index, just behind the world’s safest city Tokyo with 92 points. In the previous 2015 and 2017 editions of the EIU survey, Singapore was ranked second as well, with the Japanese capital also topping the index.
In the personal safety and infrastructure safety categories of the index, which covered 60 cities, Singapore was ranked top while it came in second in digital safety and eighth in health security.
Cities in the Asia-Pacific region make up six of the top 10 safest cities with Osaka coming in third, followed by Sydney at No.5, Seoul in joint No.8 with Copenhagen, and Melbourne at No. 10.
At the other end of the index were Dhaka (56), Karachi (57), Yangon (58), Caracas (59) and Lagos (60).
“Overall, while wealth is among the most important determinants of safety, the levels of transparency—and governance—correlate as closely as income with index scores...The research also highlights how different types of safety are thoroughly intertwined—that it is rare to find a city with very good results in one safety pillar and lagging in others,” said Naka Kondo, senior editor of the EIU, and editor of the report.
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