Global Safety Report
The Global Safety Report annually tracks whether people feel safe across more than 140 countries and territories. For decades, Gallup has used nationally representative, probability-based sampling to measure the world’s progress toward achieving the United Nations' goal for peaceful societies.
Feelings of Global Safety Reach Record High
The 2025 Global Safety Report finds that 73% of adults worldwide feel safe walking alone at night, the highest level since Gallup started tracking this measure nearly two decades ago.
This high score comes amid the largest number of armed conflicts since World War II, illustrating how communities are building safety from the ground up and proving their resilience.
While they feel safer than ever, women remain significantly less likely than men to feel secure, highlighting the need for strong institutions, local trust and targeted efforts to prevent violence against women and girls.
In 104 out of 144 countries and territories, the difference between men and women who feel safe walking alone at night was at least 10 points, highlighting how deeply entrenched this divide remains.
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Who Feels Safe Globally and Who Doesn't
Gallup's 2025 Global Safety Report reveals how feelings of safety vary worldwide, based on surveys of more than 145,000 adults in 144 countries and territories. The report shows record-high global perceptions of safety alongside notable differences that underscore progress and persistent challenges in global public safety.
73% of adults worldwide feel safe walking alone at night
4 regions drove this year's increase in global safety perceptions: Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa
104 The number of countries where women feel significantly less safe than menAbout This Research
Below are answers to frequently asked questions about Gallup's Global Safety Report and the Law and Order Index.
What is global safety?
In this report, global safety refers to how secure people feel in their communities. Gallup measures it by the percentage of adults who say they feel safe walking alone at night, their confidence in local police and whether they have experienced theft or assault in the past year. These measures roll up into Gallup's Law and Order Index. The world's score in 2024 was 83 out of 100.
What is the Law and Order Index?
Gallup’s Law and Order Index, collected through the World Poll, uses four questions to gauge people’s sense of personal security. The index is scored from 0 to 100. Higher scores mean more people report feeling safe.
The questions are:
- Do you feel safe walking alone at night in the city or area where you live?
- Do you have confidence in the local police force in the city or area where you live?
- Within the last 12 months, have you had money or property stolen from you or another household member?
- Within the past 12 months, have you been assaulted or mugged?
Why does Gallup measure feelings of safety?
Safety is one of the Gallup World Poll's core global security indicators, tracked consistently since 2006. It reflects people's sense of personal security in daily life and aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16, Target 16.1, Indicator 16.1.4, which measures the proportion of people who feel safe walking alone where they live after dark.
Survey Methods
The results in this report are based on nationally representative, probability-based samples among the adult population aged 15 and older in 144 countries and territories in 2024. The results are based on telephone or face-to-face surveys of approximately 1,000 or more respondents in each country or territory.
For results based on the total sample of national adults in 2024, the margin of sampling error ranges between ±3.3 and ±5.4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. The margin of error reflects the influence of data weighting. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
How Safe Is Each Country?
Use the world safety map below to explore how safe people feel country-by-country.
Track the Trends: Download Past Global Safety Reports
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2024 Global Safety Report
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2023 Law and Order Report
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