The fourth iteration of the index looks at 60 cities across 76 indicators, covering digital, health, infrastructure, personal, and - new this year - environmental security. The top 5 cities were Copenhagen, Toronto, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, in that order.
The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by NEC, has released the Safe Cities Index 2021, covering 60 major urban areas. In its fourth edition, the Index consists of 76 sub indicators grouped under 5 domains
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You can benchmark your city to any of the 60 cities in the index by answering 12 questions about safety. Your answers will be compared to the selected city and will allow you to get an idea of how the cities compare.
Covid-19 is the first global pandemic since 2007, when the world became more urban than rural. The crisis has stretched cities’ resources, accelerated social and technological trends, and changed how we think about urban resilience.
Infrastructure 99.0
Digital Security99.0
Personal99.0
Health99.0
Environmental Security99.0
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The Safe Cities Index was first launched in 2015 with 44 indicators and 50 cities. Since then, the index has been updated once every two years, increasing city coverage as well as strengthening the framework to include emerging challenges to urban safety. In 2021, the framework has been further updated to reflect the dynamic nature of the urban safety landscape with a special focus on the pandemic impact. It has also introduced a brand new pillar: environmental security.
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The Safe Cities Index is a global, policy benchmarking tool developed to measure urban safety. Our index score draws on 76 distinct factors across five broad pillars: personal, infrastructure, health, digital and environmental security. Within each pillar, the relevant indicators are grouped into inputs of safety — such as policies or personnel dedicated to some aspect of security — and outputs — anything from air pollution levels to crime rates."
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Any index that measures over time needs to evolve along with the field it covers. Increasing number of urban governments are reshaping their approach to include low-frequency, high risk events, whether involving pandemics, acute disasters or longer-term threats, notably climate change and chronic social stresses.
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Many cities are moving towards planning based around 'sustainability' — a concept which moves away from purely after-the-fact response (grow now and green later) to include system-wide preparedness to climate risks. The 2021 index has established for the first time a standalone pillar measuring environmental security, taking into account policy inputs aimed at improving the health of the natural and physical environment in urban areas, and output indicators such as urban tree cover and the rate of water stress in cities. "
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The Safe Cities Index 2019 is a report from The Economist Intelligence Unit sponsored by NEC. The report is based on the third iteration of the index, which ranks 60 cities across 57 indicators covering digital security, health security, infrastructure security and personal security
The Safe Cities Index 2017 is a report from The Economist Intelligence Unit sponsored by NEC. The report is based on the second iteration of the index, which ranks 60 cities across 49 indicators covering digital security, health security, infrastructure security and personal security.
The Safe Cities Index 2015 is an Economist Intelligence Unit report, sponsored by NEC. The report is based on an index composed of more than 40 quantitative and qualitative indicators. These indicators are split across four thematic categories: digital security; health security; infrastructure safety; and personal safety.
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You can benchmark your city to any of the 60 cities in the index by answering 12 questions about safety. Your answers will be compared to the selected city and will allow you to get an idea of how the cities compare.
Does the city have smart city plan that explicitly focuses on the cybersecurity of the smart city
What percentage of the city's population has access to the internet
How many doctors (per 1,000 population) does the city have
What is the average life expectancy of the population in the city
What covid-19 mortality rate (per 10,000 population) in the city
Does the city have a disaster emergency management/city business community plan in place and, if so, how adaptive and effective is it
Is disaster risk included and accounted for in active state-or-city-level urban planning and design
What percentage of GDP is spent on social assistance programs
How prevalent is violent crime in the city
Does the city masterplan outline specific measures for sustainable growth of the urban centre
What is the average annual concentration of PM 2.5
What is the percentage of tree cover within the city
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You can benchmark your city to any of the 60 cities in the index by answering 12 questions about safety. Your answers will be compared to the selected city and will allow you to get an idea of how the cities compare.
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Does the city have a smart city plan that explicitly focuses on the cybersecurity of the smart city
What percentage of the city’s population has access to the internet
How many doctors (per 1,000 population) does the city have
What is the average life expectancy of the population in the city
What is the covid-19 mortality rate (per 100,000 population) in the city
Does the city have a disaster emergency management / city business continuity plan in place and, if so, how adaptive and effective is it
Is disaster risk included and accounted for in active state- or city-level urban planning and design
What percentage of GDP is spent on social assistance programs
How prevalent is violent crime in the city
Does the city masterplan outline specific measures for sustainable growth of the urban centre
What is the average annual concentration of PM 2.5 in µg/m3
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What is the percentage of tree cover within the city
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