Taiwan boasts 2nd lowest crime rate in 2020 global crime report
Taiwan News
Date: 2020/07/13
By: Ching-Tse Cheng, Taiwan News, Staff Writer\
Taiwan rated as second safest country globally. (Pixabay photo)
In the recent report published by the site, Taiwan was given a safety index score of 84.74 points and a crime index score of 15.26, which together form a sum of 100. A total of 133 countries were included in this year's ranking, with Qatar, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) being listed as the top three.
Georgia and Oman were in the fourth and fifth place, followed by Hong Kong, Slovenia, the Isle of Man, Switzerland, and Japan, who rounded out the top ten. Meanwhile, South Korea had the 24th lowest crime rate globally and China and the U.S. each came in at 33rd and 84th, respectively.
Numbeo stated that "the crime index is an estimation of the overall level of crime in a given city or a country" and that it considers crime levels lower than 20 as very low and higher than 80 as very high, with three other point intervals in between: low (20-40); moderate (40-60); and high (60-80). [FULL STORY]
