SINGAPORE: For the twelfth 12 months in a row, Singapore topped the checklist for perceived security across the globe, with a whopping 98 per cent of residents saying final 12 months they really feel protected strolling alone at night time.
For the sake of distinction, solely 33 per cent of adults in South Africa, which is on the backside of the Gallup International Security Report 2025, say they really feel protected. The worldwide common, in the meantime, is 73 per cent, the best stage it has been since 2006, when the survey started.
Gallup defines security as how safe folks really feel of their communities. It’s measured not solely by what number of adults say they really feel protected whereas strolling alone at night time, but in addition by how a lot confidence they’ve of their native police and whether or not or not they skilled theft or assault over the previous 12 months.
This 12 months’s survey concerned greater than 145,000 adults in 144 international locations and territories. Apparently, international security perceptions are up this 12 months, pushed by a rise in 4 areas: Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa. Notably, 50 per cent of residents in Latin America and the Caribbean now say they really feel protected strolling alone at night time, a milestone for the area because it’s the primary time it has reached this stage.
Nonetheless, the variety of international locations (104) the place girls really feel considerably much less protected than males stays concerningly excessive. Across the globe, 78 per cent of males say they really feel protected at night time, in comparison with simply 67 per cent of girls. The USA has a very giant hole between women and men: 84 per cent for males, 58 per cent for ladies.
Protected and safe Singapore
As for the Little Crimson Dot, its 98 per cent perceived security price is likely one of the highest that Gallup has ever recorded across the globe.
“Whereas many developed international locations have a tendency to attain excessive on this measure, Singapore stands out for its constant efficiency by way of the near-universal sense of security its folks really feel,” Gallup’s report reads, noting that the share of residents reporting they really feel protected has by no means dropped beneath 94 per cent.
Importantly, the sizable gender disparity discovered elsewhere on the earth is absent in Singapore, the place 97 per cent of girls and 98 per cent of males stated they felt protected previously 12 months.
“These outcomes mirror Singapore’s long-standing popularity for low crime, efficient legislation enforcement, and powerful public order, all of which have contributed to its persistently excessive ranges of perceived security. Nonetheless, as it’s a small, high-income island city-state, Singapore’s progress will not be straightforward to copy in different contexts,” the report added. /TISG
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