Copenhagen Becomes World’s Safest City; Delhi, Mumbai Also Features In The Top 50 List
Copenhagen has been named as the world’s safest city by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) for the first time. With this announcement, Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, toppled Tokyo and Singapore, which were the usual contenders of the index.
The Danish city is followed closely by Toronto in the second position, while Singapore finds itself in the third position.
As per the reports, the study took into account 60 cities across 76 indicators. The EIU has been taking this survey every two years since 2015. And, to rank the countries, it evaluates 76 indicators across digital, health, personal-security, environmental, infrastructure sectors, and scores them out of 100.
Interestingly, with 56.1 points and 54.4 points, respectively, India’s New Delhi and Mumbai also managed to cement their spots in the Top 50 list.
As per the survey done in 2019, Tokyo grabbed the top spot, Singapore took the second, while Osaka, Japan, came third in the list. This year, Copenhagen, Toronto, and Singapore clinched the top three positions.
The report stated that the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the concept of urban safety, making digital security more important as businesses started to increasingly move towards online platforms. It elaborated that the pandemic also shifted the way infrastructure safety was measured, as transportation and utility habits changed.
Likewise, this time, the pandemic and health crisis subsequently resulted in a shift in the world’s safest cities. As per the report of EIU, it was found that Copenhagen has managed to surpass the previous frontrunners Tokyo, Singapore, and Osaka.
As per the report, the world’s least safe cities as of now are Yangon, Lagos, Caracas, Cairo, and Karachi.