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03-17-2015, 08:31 AM
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20. FRANKFURT
19. WASHINGTON, D.C.
18. LONDON
17. LA
16. CHICAGO
15. BARCELONA
14. MONTREAL
13. TAIPEI
12. SAN FRANCISCO
11. HONG KONG
10. NYC
9. MELBOURNE
8. TORONTO
7. ZURICH
6. SYDNEY
5. AMSTERDAM
4. STOCKHOLM
3. OSAKA
2. SINGAPORE
1. TOKYO
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The world is increasingly urban (https://ca.news.yahoo.com/20-safest-cities-in-the-world-182247656.html), a trend that's expected to continue for decades. In the US, at least 80% of the population lives in a city or suburb.
Those concentrations of people create economies of scale but also risks, like violent crime, contagious diseases, even digital network vulnerabilities.
The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked 50 cities for overall safety, using an index of indicators in 4 categories. The 50 indexed cities were chosen partly for how representative they were of their region & partly for whether data points were accessible.
All five of the US cities on the list showed up in the top 20, but only one — New York — appeared in the top 10.
The 4 categories:
Personal safety - illegal activity, police engagement & the prevalence of violent crime.
Health security - ratio of hospitals to population size a& residents' life expectancy.
Infrastructure safety - road quality, car accidents & pedestrian deaths per year, deaths from natural disasters, & the percentage of the population living in urban slums.
Digital security - presence of cyber security teams contributes to a higher score in this category, while a high frequency of identity theft & large amounts of money lost to online crime are a couple of the factors that drive a score down.
The Safe Cities Index 2015 (http://safecities.economist.com/whitepapers/safe-cities-index-white-paper/) is an Economist Intelligence Unit report, sponsored by NEC. The report is based on an index composed of more than 40 quantitative & qualitative indicators. These indicators are split across 4 thematic categories. Every city in the Index is scored across these four categories.
Each category, represented throughout the report by the icons shown in the key, comprises between 3 & 8 sub-indicators. These indicators are divided between inputs (eg, policy measures & levels of spending) & outputs (eg, frequency of vehicular accidents).
The Index focuses on 50 cities selected based on factors such as regional representation & availability of data. Therefore, it should not be considered a comprehensive list of the world’s safest cities (ie, a city coming number 50 in the list does not make it the most perilous place to live in the world).
The analysis of the Index results, conducted by the EIU, was supplemented with wide-ranging research & in-depth interviews with experts in the field....
interesting that cities often considered dangerous (e.g., Chicago, DC) are ranked high.
the cities ranked highly are also expensive cities. probably speaks to the idea that those w/financial means are more likely to live longer.
20. FRANKFURT
19. WASHINGTON, D.C.
18. LONDON
17. LA
16. CHICAGO
15. BARCELONA
14. MONTREAL
13. TAIPEI
12. SAN FRANCISCO
11. HONG KONG
10. NYC
9. MELBOURNE
8. TORONTO
7. ZURICH
6. SYDNEY
5. AMSTERDAM
4. STOCKHOLM
3. OSAKA
2. SINGAPORE
1. TOKYO
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The world is increasingly urban (https://ca.news.yahoo.com/20-safest-cities-in-the-world-182247656.html), a trend that's expected to continue for decades. In the US, at least 80% of the population lives in a city or suburb.
Those concentrations of people create economies of scale but also risks, like violent crime, contagious diseases, even digital network vulnerabilities.
The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked 50 cities for overall safety, using an index of indicators in 4 categories. The 50 indexed cities were chosen partly for how representative they were of their region & partly for whether data points were accessible.
All five of the US cities on the list showed up in the top 20, but only one — New York — appeared in the top 10.
The 4 categories:
Personal safety - illegal activity, police engagement & the prevalence of violent crime.
Health security - ratio of hospitals to population size a& residents' life expectancy.
Infrastructure safety - road quality, car accidents & pedestrian deaths per year, deaths from natural disasters, & the percentage of the population living in urban slums.
Digital security - presence of cyber security teams contributes to a higher score in this category, while a high frequency of identity theft & large amounts of money lost to online crime are a couple of the factors that drive a score down.
The Safe Cities Index 2015 (http://safecities.economist.com/whitepapers/safe-cities-index-white-paper/) is an Economist Intelligence Unit report, sponsored by NEC. The report is based on an index composed of more than 40 quantitative & qualitative indicators. These indicators are split across 4 thematic categories. Every city in the Index is scored across these four categories.
Each category, represented throughout the report by the icons shown in the key, comprises between 3 & 8 sub-indicators. These indicators are divided between inputs (eg, policy measures & levels of spending) & outputs (eg, frequency of vehicular accidents).
The Index focuses on 50 cities selected based on factors such as regional representation & availability of data. Therefore, it should not be considered a comprehensive list of the world’s safest cities (ie, a city coming number 50 in the list does not make it the most perilous place to live in the world).
The analysis of the Index results, conducted by the EIU, was supplemented with wide-ranging research & in-depth interviews with experts in the field....
interesting that cities often considered dangerous (e.g., Chicago, DC) are ranked high.
the cities ranked highly are also expensive cities. probably speaks to the idea that those w/financial means are more likely to live longer.