Doha ranked third safest city in the world

Doha: Doha, and by extension, Qatar, has once again stood out as one of the safest cities and countries in Asia and indeed the world, with an extremel...

Doha: Doha, and by extension, Qatar, has once again stood out as one of the safest cities and countries in Asia and indeed the world, with an extremely low crime rate.

According to the latest Crime Index 2024 Mid-Year report by Numbeo, an online crowd-sourced database widely used by global news organisations, Doha has the third lowest crime rate out of the 311 global cities indexed in the report, with a crime index of just 16.1.

Conversely, two cities in South Africa, Pietermaritzburg and Pretoria, are reported as having the highest crime rates of the cities profiled, with crime indices of 82.5 and 81.9, respectively. Rounding up the top-five cities with the highest crime rates are Caracas, Venezuela (81.7), Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (80.9), and South Africa’s Johannesburg (80.8).

As for the cities with the lowest crime rates, the UAE’s Abu Dhabi and Ajman slightly edged out Doha with scores of 11.8 and 15.8, respectively.

The Numbeo index measures perceived crime rates based on factors such as theft, violence, and vandalism.