The 2025 Global Safety Report seeks to answer one question: Do people feel safe? With this as the starting point, the report offers insights into the state of public safety, how safe individuals and communities actually feel, their views on security institutions, and who benefits the most—or the least—from them.
The Global Safety Report is one of the many products of Gallup’s World Poll. This massive annual undertaking, which entails nationally representative surveys of more than 145,000 adults in 144 countries and territories, has been conducted since 2006. For this year’s report, NYU’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) partnered with Gallup to contribute our policy analysis.
Read the full blog: Is the World Really Safer? Global Perceptions of Safety and Interpersonal Violence