Global Crime Index 2026

Crime scores for 627 cities in 174 countries, on a scale from 0 (safest) to 100. Find any city, compare two side by side, or browse the safest and most dangerous places in the world.

Updated October 25, 2026. Reviewed against the FBI’s 2025 crime report, the 2025 ranking of the world’s most violent cities and the 2026 Global Peace Index. How the index works

All 627 cities on one scale. Each block is a city, stacked on its score. Tap a block or search for a city.

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Very safe 0–29
Moderate 30–49
Elevated 50–64
High 65–79
Very high 80–100

Abu Dhabi has the lowest score in the index (9) and Port-au-Prince the highest (94). The world average is 46.3.

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Safest and most dangerous cities in 2026

Cities ranked by their overall crime score. A lower score means less crime. Use the region filter to rank cities within one part of the world.

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Top 50 safest cities in the world 2026

Rank	City	Country	Crime index	Band
1	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	9	Very safe
2	Singapore	Singapore	10	Very safe
3	Doha	Qatar	11	Very safe
4	Bandar Seri Begawan	Brunei	13	Very safe
5	Kyoto	Japan	14	Very safe
6	Mérida	Mexico	15	Very safe
6	Yokohama	Japan	15	Very safe
6	Zurich	Switzerland	15	Very safe
9	Fukuoka	Japan	16	Very safe
9	Ljubljana	Slovenia	16	Very safe
9	Muscat	Oman	16	Very safe
9	Reykjavik	Iceland	16	Very safe
9	Sharjah	United Arab Emirates	16	Very safe
14	Geneva	Switzerland	17	Very safe
14	Kobe	Japan	17	Very safe
14	Medina	Saudi Arabia	17	Very safe
14	Nagoya	Japan	17	Very safe
18	Bern	Switzerland	18	Very safe
18	Irvine	United States	18	Very safe
18	Kuwait City	Kuwait	18	Very safe
18	Osaka	Japan	18	Very safe
18	Tokyo	Japan	18	Very safe
18	Vienna	Austria	18	Very safe
24	Luxembourg City	Luxembourg	19	Very safe
24	Mecca	Saudi Arabia	19	Very safe
24	Seoul	South Korea	19	Very safe
27	Basel	Switzerland	20	Very safe
27	Beijing	China	20	Very safe
27	Cluj-Napoca	Romania	20	Very safe
27	Salzburg	Austria	20	Very safe
31	Canberra	Australia	21	Very safe
31	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	21	Very safe
31	Odense	Denmark	21	Very safe
31	Suzhou	China	21	Very safe
31	Zagreb	Croatia	21	Very safe
36	Braga	Portugal	22	Very safe
36	Brașov	Romania	22	Very safe
36	Busan	South Korea	22	Very safe
36	Copenhagen	Denmark	22	Very safe
36	Fredericton	Canada	22	Very safe
36	Gilbert	United States	22	Very safe
36	Manama	Bahrain	22	Very safe
36	Mississauga	Canada	22	Very safe
36	Quebec City	Canada	22	Very safe
36	Shanghai	China	22	Very safe
46	Hangzhou	China	23	Very safe
46	Oslo	Norway	23	Very safe
46	Tampere	Finland	23	Very safe
46	Thimphu	Bhutan	23	Very safe
50	Aarhus	Denmark	24	Very safe

Top 50 most dangerous cities in the world 2026

Rank	City	Country	Crime index	Band
1	Port-au-Prince	Haiti	94	Very high
2	Mogadishu	Somalia	92	Very high
3	Sana'a	Yemen	87	Very high
4	Maracaibo	Venezuela	86	Very high
5	Aleppo	Syria	84	Very high
5	Guayaquil	Ecuador	84	Very high
5	Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of Congo	84	Very high
8	Baghdad	Iraq	83	Very high
9	Ciudad Juárez	Mexico	82	Very high
9	Kabul	Afghanistan	82	Very high
11	Bangui	Central African Republic	81	Very high
11	Caracas	Venezuela	81	Very high
11	Johannesburg	South Africa	81	Very high
14	Port Moresby	Papua New Guinea	79	High
14	Tijuana	Mexico	79	High
14	Tripoli	Libya	79	High
17	Cape Town	South Africa	78	High
17	Damascus	Syria	78	High
17	Ghaziabad	India	78	High
17	Karachi	Pakistan	78	High
17	Kyiv	Ukraine	78	High
17	Memphis	United States	78	High
17	New Delhi	India	78	High
17	Tegucigalpa	Honduras	78	High
25	Khartoum	Sudan	77	High
25	Mosul	Iraq	77	High
25	Salvador	Brazil	77	High
28	Benghazi	Libya	76	High
28	Fortaleza	Brazil	76	High
28	Maceió	Brazil	76	High
28	N'Djamena	Chad	76	High
32	Agra	India	75	High
32	Basra	Iraq	75	High
32	Ibadan	Nigeria	75	High
32	Nairobi	Kenya	75	High
32	New Orleans	United States	75	High
32	Newark	United States	75	High
32	Recife	Brazil	75	High
32	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	75	High
40	Bamako	Mali	74	High
40	Barquisimeto	Venezuela	74	High
40	Cali	Colombia	74	High
40	Natal	Brazil	74	High
44	Conakry	Guinea	73	High
44	Harare	Zimbabwe	73	High
44	Oakland	United States	73	High
44	Oklahoma City	United States	73	High
44	St. Louis	United States	73	High
49	Buffalo	United States	72	High
49	Cleveland	United States	72	High

Crime index by country 2026

Each country’s score is the average of its cities in the index. Countries with only one city are ranked on that city.

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Rank	Country	Cities	Average	Safest city	Highest crime
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Crime index 2026: key findings

The 627 cities in the index average 46.3 out of 100. Only 13 score 80 or higher, and almost all of them are in places affected by war, state collapse or organised crime. Below are the patterns in our data, alongside the latest official figures.

Average crime index by region

Oceania 74 cities33.7
Europe 138 cities35.7
Asia 112 cities44.1
Middle East 37 cities44.7
North & Central America 167 cities51.8
Africa 54 cities63.5
South America 45 cities64.8

Oceania and Europe have the lowest average scores. South America and Africa have the highest.

How the 627 cities score

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290

Number of cities in each 10-point band, from 0–9 on the left to 90–100 on the right.

The world’s most violent cities by homicide rate (2025)

Port-au-Prince, Haiti about 197 per 100,000
Babahoyo, Ecuador about 166 per 100,000
Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa
Machala, Ecuador
Quevedo, Ecuador
Culiacán, Mexico
Manabí Centro, Ecuador
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Ciudad Obregón, Mexico
Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Cities of 300,000+ people outside active war zones. Source: Citizens’ Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice (CCSPJP), February 2026. War zones such as Mogadishu or Sana’a are left out of that ranking but included in our index.

Where the 50 most violent cities are

Mexico17
Colombia8
Ecuador7
Brazil6
South Africa6
United States3
Guatemala1
Haiti1
Trinidad and Tobago1

Cities per country in the CCSPJP 2025 ranking. 44 of the 50 are in the Americas; for the first time since 2013, only two Mexican cities are in the top 10.

US crime keeps falling

Crime type	2024 to 2025
Homicide	−18.1%
Motor vehicle theft	about −23%
Property crime	−12.4%
Violent crime	−9.3%

FBI report on 2025 crime, released August 2026. The homicide rate fell to 4.1 per 100,000, tied for the lowest since 1956. The Council on Criminal Justice reports homicides in the cities it tracks fell another 18% in the first half of 2026.

Safest and least safe countries: Global Peace Index 2026

Most peaceful

Iceland 1.161
New Zealand 1.343
Switzerland 1.363
Slovenia 1.369
Ireland 1.371
Austria 1.421
Portugal 1.427
Singapore 1.435
Finland 1.478
Japan 1.489

Least peaceful

Russia
Sudan
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ukraine
Israel

Institute for Economics & Peace, June 2026, covering 163 countries. Lower scores are more peaceful. Iceland has ranked first for 19 years; Russia ranks last for the first time.

What changed in the October 2026 update

22 cities changed, each for a reason we can source. All other scores are unchanged from the previous edition.

City	Score	Reason
Port-au-PrinceHaiti	91 → 94	Ranked #1 most violent city in the world for 2025 (197 homicides per 100,000)
GuayaquilEcuador	74 → 84	Ranked #8 worldwide for 2025 as Ecuador's gang violence spread
Cape TownSouth Africa	74 → 78	Ranked #15 worldwide for 2025
CaliColombia	72 → 74	Ranked #24 worldwide for 2025 (46.8 homicides per 100,000)
Port of SpainTrinidad and Tobago	61 → 68	Ranked #25 worldwide for 2025 (45.7 homicides per 100,000)
CúcutaColombia	66 → 70	Ranked #28 worldwide for 2025 (41.6 homicides per 100,000)
CartagenaColombia	59 → 64	Ranked #34 worldwide for 2025
ClevelandUnited States	69 → 72	Entered the world top 50 for 2025 (#43)
LeónMexico	52 → 58	Ranked #50 worldwide for 2025 (29.8 homicides per 100,000)
BaltimoreUnited States	79 → 70	Dropped off the world top-50 list for 2025 after a sharp fall in homicides
DetroitUnited States	78 → 70	Dropped off the world top-50 list for 2025
KingstonJamaica	74 → 70	Dropped off the world top-50 list for 2025
ManausBrazil	74 → 70	Dropped off the world top-50 list for 2025
CancúnMexico	55 → 50	Dropped off the world top-50 list for 2025
Baton RougeUnited States	85 → 70	Recalibrated: 24.2 homicides per 100,000 in 2024, below US cities on the world list
ShreveportUnited States	80 → 70	Recalibrated: 26.8 homicides per 100,000 in 2024, below US cities on the world list
San BernardinoUnited States	82 → 62	Recalibrated: 11.2 homicides per 100,000 in 2024
WichitaUnited States	82 → 58	Recalibrated: 37 homicides in 2025 (about 9 per 100,000)
Corpus ChristiUnited States	88 → 58	Recalibrated: previously ranked 3rd most dangerous city in the world, far above its crime data
NorfolkUnited States	78 → 62	Recalibrated: capped below US cities that appear on the world top-50 list
MontgomeryUnited States	75 → 70	Recalibrated: capped below US cities that appear on the world top-50 list
TokyoJapan	New 18	Added to the index. Japan ranks 10th in the 2026 Global Peace Index; Tokyo is scored alongside Osaka (18) and Yokohama (15)

How the crime index works

Each city gets a score from 0 to 100 that sums up crime across seven categories: petty theft, violent crime, vehicle theft, burglary, drug crime, corruption and safety at night. Lower scores are safer. The trend chart shows each city’s score from 2020 to 2024 next to its current 2026 score.

Scores are checked against official and independent sources whenever new data is published. A crime index is a guide, not a guarantee: crime varies a lot between neighbourhoods, so check local advice before you travel.

Score bands

0–29 Very safe
30–49 Moderate
50–64 Elevated
65–79 High
80–100 Very high

Sources used in this update

FBI Crime Data Explorer: Reported Crimes in the Nation 2025, released August 2026
Citizens’ Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice (CCSPJP): ranking of the 50 most violent cities in the world 2025, February 2026
Institute for Economics & Peace: Global Peace Index 2026, June 2026
Council on Criminal Justice: mid-year 2026 crime trends
UN Office on Drugs and Crime: international homicide statistics
National police and city government statistics, linked from each city in the comparison tool

Crime index questions

What is the Global Crime Index?

The Global Crime Index by Safety Index gives 627 cities in 174 countries a score from 0 to 100 that sums up crime across seven categories: petty theft, violent crime, vehicle theft, burglary, drug crime, corruption and safety at night. Lower scores mean safer cities.

Which city has the lowest crime index in 2026?

Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) has the lowest score in the 2026 index at 9, followed by Singapore (10) and Doha (11).

Which city has the highest crime index in 2026?

Port-au-Prince (Haiti) has the highest score at 94, followed by Mogadishu (92) and Sana'a (87).

What is the most violent city in the world by homicide rate?

Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It topped the 2025 ranking of the world's 50 most violent cities by the Citizens' Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice (CCSPJP), with about 197 homicides per 100,000 people. That ranking covers cities of 300,000+ people outside active war zones.

Which country is the safest in the world in 2026?

Iceland ranks first in the 2026 Global Peace Index for the 19th year in a row, followed by New Zealand, Switzerland, Slovenia and Ireland. Russia ranks last, followed by Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine and Israel.

Is crime going down in the United States?

Yes. FBI figures for 2025, released in August 2026, show homicides fell 18.1% to 4.1 per 100,000 people, tied for the lowest rate since 1956. Violent crime fell 9.3% and property crime 12.4%. The Council on Criminal Justice reports homicides in the cities it tracks fell another 18% in the first half of 2026.

Is Tokyo safe?

Yes. Tokyo scores 18 out of 100 in the 2026 index, making it 18th safest of 627 cities, and Japan is 10th in the 2026 Global Peace Index. Petty theft and violent crime are rare, though you should still watch for drink-spiking and overcharging in some nightlife districts.

How often is the crime index updated?

The index is reviewed whenever major new data is published, such as the FBI's annual crime report, the annual ranking of the world's most violent cities or the Global Peace Index. It was last updated on October 25, 2026.