Kuwait ranked 18th globally out of 134 countries, and fourth in the Arab world in Global Finance’s ranking of the safest countries in the world for the current year, while the UAE ranked second in the world and first in the Gulf, and Qatar ranked third in the world.
Global Finance’s ranking of the safest countries in the world takes into account 3 basic factors: war, peace, and terrorism as measured by the Global Peace Index, personal security in terms of low crime rates, and the risk of natural disasters, which includes the possibility of a new pandemic.
Globally, Iceland topped the ranking of the safest countries in the Global Finance list, followed by the UAE and Qatar, then Singapore and Finland in the fourth and fifth positions, and Mongolia, Norway, Denmark, Canada and New Zealand ranked 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, respectively.
In the Arab world, Saudi Arabia ranked 19th, immediately after Kuwait, while Morocco ranked 24th, followed by Oman in 25th place, Jordan ranked 52nd, Algeria ranked 61st, Egypt ranked 65th, and Tunisia ranked 93rd. Lebanon came in last in the 110th place, and Yemen in the 126th place.
As for the countries most lagging behind in Global Finance’s ranking of the safest countries, the Philippines ranked last at 134, preceded by Colombia at 133, Guatemala at 132, Nigeria at 131, Bosnia and Herzegovina at 130, and Brazil at 129. It was preceded by Mexico at 128th, Peru at 127th, and North Macedonia at 125th, ahead of Yemen.