Gallup, a global performance-management consulting company, published this week its “2023 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 146,000 interviews with individuals in 141 nations in the year 2022. 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 2021 and 2022, 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, 72% of the world population trusts local police forces, and 71% feels secure walking alone at night times. In the same context, only 12% 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 Tajikistan to a low of 49 in Liberia. Tajikistan came in first on the list with a Law & Order index score of 96, followed by Finland (92), Iceland (92), Kuwait (92) and Luxembourg (92), only to name a few.

On the regional front, Kuwait was followed by Egypt, which ranked 14^th globally and 2^nd in the MENA region in the 2022 law and order index with a score of 89 and was followed by Saudi Arabia (17^th globally with a score of 89), the U.A.E. (26^th globally with a score of 87), Jordan (36^th globally with a score of 85) and Iraq (56^th globally with a score of 82) among others.  On a local basis, Lebanon ranked 92^nd in the world and 10^th in the MENA region in the law and order index with a score of 73, up from a score of 70 in the previous year and was followed by Libya (93^rd globally with a score of 73), Tunisia (97^th globally with a score of 72) and Yemen (103^rd globally with a score of 71).