Personal safety is one of the key components for living somewhere with a decent quality of life.
And every year Mercer, one of the world’s largest HR consultancy firms, releases its Quality of Living Index, which also shows where are the safest cities in the world to live and work.
The ranking is one of the most comprehensive of its kind and is carried out annually to help multinational companies and other employers to compensate employees fairly when placing them on international assignments, according to Mercer.
Mercer says that the personal safety ranking is based the cities’ “relationship with other countries, internal stability, crime and law enforcement.” In other words, it comes as no surprise that war-torn cities or those rife with crime rank the lowest.
Mercer looked at 450 cities across the globe and then made a list of 230 countries that are the safest for workers. While a whole host of European cities top the list for being safest in the world, there are some that surprisingly rank very low in the index.
Business Insider took at the bottom of the list in order to find the 17 most unsafe cities in Europe.
17. Milan, Italy — The city slipped in the ranking to 63 this year after the FBI warned that St. Peter’s Basilica, the Doumo and La Scala were under threat of a terrorist attack.
16 (joint). Barcelona, Spain — The city is known for being one of the pickpocket capitals of the world, pushing it into rank 64 on the personal safety index.
The British foreign office says under the safety and security section (crime) “there has been an increase in the number of thefts from hire cars; remove all valuables or store items out of sight.”
16 (joint). Belfast, Northern Ireland — The city is ranked at 64 and has a relatively low violent crime rate compared to other towns and cities in Northern Ireland. However, the proportion of people living in poverty is the highest in Belfast which rocks social stability and increases petty crime.
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The 17 most unsafe cities in Europe
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