It's everybody's dream: you hope to live in a city that is generally safe. The Economist tells you where it is.
The Economist, one of the leading business-related publications in the world, has come up with a list of the safest cities all around the globe.
For this study, they rounded up 50 of the most diverse urban centers in the world, including 13 from the Americas; 19 from Africa, Middle East, and Europe; and 18 from Asia-Pacific.
These cities were then ranked according to four factors: health security, personal safety, infrastructure safety, and digital security.
And which city came up on top? It's none other than Tokyo, which the most populated metro in the world. It also has one of the highest costs of living. However, it scored very well in digital security even if most of those who ranked top in this category were U.S. cities.
Two other Asian cities followed suit, Singapore and Osaka, which is another Japanese city. No city from the Americas made it to the top 5 as the last two slots were occupied by Amsterdam and Stockholm, both European cities.
Coming up in the next three ranks are Sydney, Zurich, and Toronto. The first U.S. city on the list is New York, which is ranked number 10. San Francisco, meanwhile, is number 12, making it a much safer city than another one in California, Los Angeles, which takes the seventeenth place. Washington DC, the country's capital, is only at number 19. In fact, Chicago, based on the list, appears to be a much safer city by being in sixteenth place.
At the bottom of the list is an Asian city, Jakarta, which has more than 10 million people, with a score of 53.71. It belongs to the bottom 5 cities in terms of personal safety. Others in the lowest five are Riyadh, Johannesburg, Ho Chi Minh City, and Tehran.