Georgia named as 7th safest country worldwide

Numbeo surveyed 125 countries and ranked Georgia the seventh in terms of safety. Photo by N.Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
Agenda.ge, 21 Jun 2017 - 13:11, Tbilisi,Georgia

Georgia has been ranked the seventh safest country in the world by global database Numbeo.

  • Numbeo.com, the world’s largest database of user contributed data, surveyed 125 countries, and ranked Qatar, Singapore, Taiwan, Austria, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Georgia, Japan, Denmark, Belarus, Switzerland as the top 10 safest nations.

The index takes into account change of crime level in the past three years, how safe it is to walk during daylight and night hours and other factors.

  • Countries ranked the least safe (named at the top of the list) were Venezuela, Papua New Guinea and Honduras.

Numbeo.com gathered statistics from a range of sources such as governmental institutions, newspaper articles, websites of supermarkets and taxi companies and other surveys, to generate its results, as well as international media like BBC, Time, Forbes, The Economist, Ney York Times, The Telegraph, the Washington Post and similar.