Gallup, a global performance-management consulting company, published this week its “2022 Global Law and Order” report in which it assesses people’s perception of personal security and their private experiences with crime and law enforcement. More specifically, the index measures answers to four questions that pivot around 127,000 interviews with individuals in 120 nations in the year 2021. The report highlighted that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 reiterated the importance of safety to the future of global development. The global law and order report concluded that answers related to the four security metrics that Gallup inquired about have barely changed between the years 2020 and 2021, leaving in this regard much room for growth. The report concluded that the majority of the world population has confidence in the police when it comes to safety. In details and according to the survey, 70% of the world population trusts local police forces, and 71% feels secure walking alone at night times. In the same context, only 11% of the interviewed sample reported having possessions stolen from them last year and 6% claimed having been attacked or robbed. The global scores stretched from a high of 96 in Singapore to a low of 51 in Afghanistan. Singapore came in first on the list with a Law & Order index score of 96, followed by Tajikistan (95), Norway (93), Switzerland (92) and Indonesia (92), only to name a few.

On the regional front, Egypt ranked 6^th globally and 1^st in the MENA region, scoring 92 in the 2021 law and order index, followed by the U.A.E. (7^th globally with a score of 92), Jordan (16^th globally with a score of 89), Saudi Arabia (18^th globally with a score of 89) and Iraq (61^st globally with a score of 80) among others.  On a local basis, Lebanon ranked 95^th in the world and 9^th in the MENA region in the law and order index with a score of 70, down from a score of 74 in the previous year, ranking last among MENA countries included in the index.