Gallup, a global performance-management consulting company, recently published the 2025 Global Safety report in which it assesses how safe people feel in their communities. The results of the global safety report are based on “nationally representative, probability-based samples” amongst individuals aged 15 and older in 144 countries and territories in 2024. The results of 145,170 interviewed individuals were gathered by telephone or face-to-face surveys of circa 1,000 or more respondents in each country or territory with individuals being asked how safe they feel walking alone at night in the city/area where they live. According to the report, 73% of surveyed individuals reported that they felt safe walking alone at night where they live, which, according to Gallup, the highest reading since the inception of the index in 2006. The report noted that perceptions of safety around the world are improving despite the global conflicts, suggesting that progress is still possible and highlighting that the role of local security, the trust in institutions and leaderships, and community resilience can improve despite global unrest. According to Gallup, the highest perception of safety recorded among regions was in Asia-Pacific (79%), followed by Western Europe (77%), the Middle East and North Africa (74%), Northern America (72%), Post-Soviet Eurasia (71%), Sub-Saharan Africa (53%), and Latin America and the Caribbean (50%).

The report also adds three questions that measure people’s confidence in their local police and their personal experience with assault and theft in the past year. When the answers to all four questions are combined, they form the Law and Index score for each country. The Global Law and Order index scores stretched from a high of 97 in Tajikstan to 49 in Liberia. Tajikistan came in first on the 2024 list with a Law & Order index score of 97 and a 95% safety level, followed by Singapore (law & order index score: 95, safety level: 98%), Kosovo (law & order index score: 94, safety level: 89%), China (law & order index score: 93, safety level: 94%) and Iceland (law & order index score: 93, safety level: 88%), only to name a few. On the Arab region front, Bahrain came in first among Arab countries and 9^th in the World in the 2024 law & order index with a score of 91 and a safety level of 90%, followed by Oman (global rank: 10, score: 91, safety level: 94%), Saudi Arabia (global rank: 11, score: 91, safety level: 93%), among others. On a local basis, Lebanon ranked 93^rd in the world and 12^th among Arab countries in the 2024 law and order index with a score of 75 and a safety level of 52% (the lowest safety level among Arab countries) noting that the country’s results are unchanged year-on-year. Lebanon was followed by Tunisia (global rank: 99, score: 74, safety level: 64%), State of Palestine (global rank: 104, score: 73, safety level: 56%), Comoros (global rank: 108, score: 71, safety level: 67%) and Mauritania (global rank: 119, score: 68, safety level: 64%).