Mumbai ranked 45th safest city globally; Tokyo, Singapore topped the World's Safest Cities Chart
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New Delhi, October 14: Mumbai and Delhi being ranked as Safe Cities based on 49 indicators across digital security, health security, infrastructure security and personal security. No wonder Mumbai is safer than Delhi but ‘safety’ tag doesn’t goes well with Delhi city as it is known as ‘Rape Capital’ and the whole world knows the reason. Whereas Tokyo has once again topped the list of The Economist's Safe Cities Index 2017 while Delhi and Mumbai ranked 43rd and 45th respectively.
The report revealed that security in many cities isn't improving. Most Asian and European cities remained at the top of the index while American cities are falling behind with San Francisco was the only US city to make to the top 20. The impact of terror attacks in terms of fatalities, in contrast to deaths caused by traffic accidents. Around 30,000 deaths each year are linked to terror, it says, while around 1.2 million are killed in car accidents.
Tokyo's strongest performance is in the digital security category and it has risen seven points in the health security category, the report said. Asia, the Middle East and Africa mostly dominate the lower rung of the index, with Dhaka, Yangon and Karachi are at the bottom of the list. As per the report, out of the world’s fastest-growing cities, six are in Africa while 40 are in Asia.