With global peacefulness declining for the sixth year in a row in 2024, many people across the globe are, understandably, feeling less safe and less confident in the systems designed to protect them.

Using Gallup's Law and Order Index — which measures public perceptions of safety, based on a survey of 146,000 people from 140 countries — Visual Capitalist mapped the countries where citizens feel most and least safe.

The countries with the strongest public perceptions of safety were Kuwait (98 out of 100), Singapore (95) and Tajikistan (95). A whopping 99 percent of Kuwaiti residents said they felt safe in their country, and only one percent reported experiencing theft in the past year.

Of the top ten countries where people feel safest, seven are in Europe, including Norway, Estonia and Finland.

People feel least safe in Liberia, which ranked lowest on the list for the second consecutive year. The West African country is one of the poorest in the world, and high shares of survey respondents said they had been victims of assault (28 percent) and theft (45 percent) over the last year.

Ecuador (55), Sierra Leone (55) and South Africa (57) also received low Law and Order Index scores.

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Via Visual Capitalist.