Copenhagen safest city on Earth

Hyderabad: Copenhagen has been identified as the safest city on Earth, ousting Tokyo from the top spot it had occupied in all previous surveys by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Read why the Danish capital is ranked the best city to live in…. The fourth edition of the Safe Cities Index 2021 was released from The […]

Hyderabad: Copenhagen has been identified as the safest city on Earth, ousting Tokyo from the top spot it had occupied in all previous surveys by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Read why the Danish capital is ranked the best city to live in….

The fourth edition of the Safe Cities Index 2021 was released from The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by NEC Corporation. The report is based on the fourth iteration of the index, which ranks 60 cities across 76 indicators covering digital, health, infrastructure, personal and environmental security.

The go-to ranking of the world’s safest cities is in, and top of the charts this year is Copenhagen. Ranked according to digital, health, infrastructure, personal and environmental security, on a scale of 0 to 100 the Danish capital scored 82.4, just pipping Toronto (82.2) and followed by Singapore (80.7), Sydney (80.1) and Tokyo (80).

The Danish capital scored highest in the fourth edition of the World’s Safest Cities Index, the first to be compiled since the pandemic threw the world into economic and political shock. It’s also the first to include environmental safety as one of the survey’s pillar measurements – a key reason behind Copenhagen’s rise above the Japanese capital.

Different parameters

Copenhagen was the highest scorer in the personal security category, which rates cities according to citizens’ risk of crime violence, terrorist threats, natural disasters and economic vulnerabilities.

It was sixth on the environmental list, which examines how cities have built sustainability and carbon reduction measures into their planning policies.

Copenhagen took the number-three spot, behind Sydney and Singapore, for digital security, a measure of citizens’ ability to freely use the internet without fear of their online privacy being violated.

On health safety, which gauges the quality and availability of health services, the Danish capital was relatively lowly ranked at 26th, way below Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong at the top.

Functions of cities are interrelated and need to be planned to work together to keep citizens safe, the report concluded.

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Safe City Index

Copenhagen has low crime rate and is the safest city

Toronto scored big on environment safety

Singapore is best in health security and accessibility

Sydney is safe in terms of digital security

Tokyo is the best for health security