Understanding Global Security: Gallup’s 2024 Index Reveals Kuwait’s Top Rank, Europe’s High Safety Scores

True safety goes beyond statistics—it’s felt in everyday life. With Gallup’s Global Safety Report 2024 as our guide, we’ve visualized the countries where law and order shape a genuine sense of security. The rankings were done after considering the feelings of people about their personal safety, how much assault or crimes they have experienced and how much confidence they have in the police in their respective countries. Even though the public safety levels have improved somewhat in the last decade, many people still do not feel secure in their country.

According to the Law and Order Index 2024, Kuwait is the safest country in the world. It has the index score of 98 out of 100. Followed by Kuwait are Singapore and Tajikistan. Singapore is ranked one of the safest countries in the world because it has low crime rates and law enforcement in the country is very strict. Norway is the fourth safest country in the world. Apart from the top three countries in the Law and Order Index 2024, the rest of the seven countries are all from Europe.

The reason why the majority of the European countries are ranked safest is because of trust in government institutions and low crime rate. Finland got the highest public trust in the police (87%). On the other hand, Liberia is the most unsafe country in 2024 because of poor economic conditions, high crime rates and poor law enforcement. Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world so it also experiences political corruption and other crimes too that are the reason why people feel unsafe in the country.

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Country	Law and Order Index Score 2024
Kuwait	98
Singapore	95
Tajikistan	95
Norway	93
Estonia	91
Finland	91
Iceland	91
Kosovo	91
Luxembourg	91
Switzerland	91
Denmark	90
UAE	90
Vietnam	90
Bahrain	89
El Salvador	89
Indonesia	89
Portugal	89
Saudi Arabia	89
Slovenia	89
Uzbekistan	89
China	88
Egypt	88
Montenegro	88
Netherlands	88
Sweden	88
Taiwan	88
Austria	87
Azerbaijan	87
Jordan	87
Malaysia	87
Spain	87
Georgia	86
Germany	86
Hong Kong, S.A.R.	86
Ireland	86
Japan	86
Lithuania	86
Armenia	85
Czech Republic	85
South Korea	85
Albania	84
France	84
Iraq	84
Israel	84
Malta	84
Philippines	84
Belgium	83
Canada	83
Hungary	83
India	83
Serbia	83
Bosnia and Herzegovina	82
Kyrgyzstan	82
Latvia	82
Northern Cyprus	82
Slovakia	82
Somalia	82
Türkiye	82
United Kingdom	82
Australia	81
Bangladesh	81
Croatia	81
Iran	81
Italy	81
Poland	81
Russian Federation	81
United States	81
Cambodia	80
Kazakhstan	80
Mauritius	80
Moldova	80
North Macedonia	79
Tanzania	79
Thailand	79
Bulgaria	78
Burkina Faso	78
Morocco	78
Pakistan	78
Romania	78
Cyprus	77
Greece	77
Lao	77
Mali	77
Nepal	77
Panama	77
Sri Lanka	77
Libya	76
New Zealand	76
Tunisia	76
State of Palestine	75
Uruguay	75
Brazil	74
Côte d'Ivoire	74
Guatemala	74
Costa Rica	73
Honduras	73
Lebanon	73
Ukraine	73
Benin	72
Paraguay	72
Senegal	72
Ghana	71
Mongolia	71
Mozambique	71
Togo	71
Yemen	71
Ethiopia	70
Comoros	69
Dominican Republic	69
Zimbabwe	69
Chile	68
Madagascar	68
Niger	68
Mexico	66
Venezuela	66
Argentina	65
Colombia	65
Mauritania	65
Nigeria	65
Zambia	65
Cameroon	64
Myanmar	64
Namibia	64
Guinea	63
Kenya	63
Malawi	63
Peru	63
Republic of the Congo	63
Bolivia	62
Eswatini	62
Gabon	62
Uganda	62
Botswana	60
Chad	60
The Gambia	59
DRC	58
South Africa	58
Sierra Leone	57
Ecuador	55
Liberia	50

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