According to the 2018 Law and Order Index >report published by Gallup - a global analytics and consultancy firm - Egypt tops all Arab countries when it comes to how safe its residents feel.
Out of 142 countries included in the report - which looks at people's sense of personal security as well as explores their personal experiences with crime and law enforcement - the North African country came in No. 1 in the Arab world.
Egypt ranked 16th globally, totaling an 88 point index score, outranking both the United States and United Kingdom.
In 2017, Egypt came in No. 4 in the >ranking among Arab countries and 47th globally.
How did other Arab countries rank?
Globally, Singapore ranked the safest of all, with a 97 point index score, followed by Norway, Iceland, Finland, Uzbekistan, and Hong Kong.
When it comes to the Arab world, here are the top five countries featured in the ranking:
- Egypt (16th globally)
- Jordan (22nd globally)
- Morocco (56th globally)
- Algeria (65th globally)
- Lebanon (70th globally)
What are the scores based on?
Gallup's Law and Order Index uses four questions to gauge people's sense of personal security and their personal experiences with crime and law enforcement.
The questions explore safety through the eyes of residents of the city, confidence in local police forces, whether residents feel safe walking alone at night, and personal experiences with mugging incidents or stolen property in the past 12 months.
The report is based on interviews with more than 148,000 adults in 142 countries and areas in 2017.
According to the latest findings, "more than two in every three people worldwide say they have confidence in their local police (69 percent) and feel safe walking alone at night where they live (68 percent)".
Additionally, "one in eight (13 percent) say they had property stolen from them or another household member in the past year, and five percent say they were assaulted or mugged."
The results vary significantly depending on the region.
Gallup states that the index score is also considered an indication of how close or far a country is "from achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of 'promoting just, peaceful and inclusive societies.'"
Is Egypt a safe place for women?
In 2017, Cairo - the capital city of Egypt - was >named the "worst megacity for women" in the world, according to a Thomson Reuters Foundation >survey.
A number of experts in the field of women's rights across 19 megacities in the world answered a number of questions around issues such as sexual violence, harmful cultural practices, and women's access to healthcare and finance.
Cairo was ranked "most dangerous" overall.
The Egyptian capital ranked worst in terms of harmful cultural practices, such as female genital mutilation and forced marriages.
FGM, which is defined as a "partial or total removal of external genitalia, or any other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons" by the World Health Organization (WHO), is extremely common in Egypt.
According to a 2014 survey, 92 percent of Egyptian women aged between 15 and 49 have been circumcised.
The city was also named the third worst city in terms of sexual harassment and violence - after Delhi, India and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
According to a 2013 report released by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, 99.3 percent of Egyptian women have experienced some form of sexual harassment, despite it being a crime as per Egyptian law.
According to the international poll, the status of women's rights has declined since the uprising in the country in 2011.