New Delhi ranks 48th while Copenhagen tops EIU’s Safe Cities Index 2021
- Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark, has been named as the world’s safest city from among 60 global cities, in Safe Cities Index 2021, released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
- Copenhagen scored 82.4 points out of 100, to top the fourth edition of the EIU’s biennial index, which measures the level of urban safety.
- From India, New Delhi and Mumbai have found place in the index.
- New Delhi is placed at 48th position with a score of 56.1, while Mumbai is at 50th place with score of 54.4.
- Yangon is at the bottom of the index, as least safe city, with a score of 39.5.
World’s top 10 Safest cities
- Copenhagen
- Toronto
- Singapore
- Sydney
- Tokyo
- Amsterdam
- Wellington
- Hong Kong
- Melbourne
- Stockholm
Safe Cities Index 2021
- The EIU’s Safe Cities Index is a global, policy benchmarking tool developed to measure global urban safety. The Index was first released in 2015.
- In 2021, cities are ranked based on 76 indicators of security across five broad pillars, which are digital, health, infrastructure, personal and environmental.
- Environmental security is the new addition in security parameters list for the year 2021.
- Cities score on a scale of 0 to 100 where score denotes the safety in following manner:
- 0-25 – Low Safety
- 25.1-50 – Medium Safety
- 50.1-75 – High Safety
- 75.1-100 – Very High Safety