| Level of crime | 89.18 | Very High | |
| Crime increasing in the past 3 years | 80.67 | Very High | |
| Worries home broken and things stolen | 79.35 | High | |
| Worries being mugged or robbed | 80.78 | Very High | |
| Worries car stolen | 77.19 | High | |
| Worries things from car stolen | 80.92 | Very High | |
| Worries attacked | 75.28 | High | |
| Worries being insulted | 63.43 | High | |
| Worries being subject to a physical attack because of your skin color, ethnic origin, gender or religion | 66.32 | High | |
| Problem people using or dealing drugs | 71.43 | High | |
| Problem property crimes such as vandalism and theft | 82.29 | Very High | |
| Problem violent crimes such as assault and armed robbery | 88.30 | Very High | |
| Problem corruption and bribery | 91.91 | Very High |
| Safety walking alone during daylight | 30.65 | Low | |
| Safety walking alone during night | 8.72 | Very Low |
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Last update: September 2020
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If the value is 0, it means it is perceived as very low, and if the value is 100, it means it is perceived as very high.
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24 Comments so far
The only cities that 'might' make a true global top 10 are the top 3 Fenn's got there IMO. I don't believe any of the others are close to that.
1. Tripoli, Libya
2. Damascus, Syria
3. Baghdad, Iraq
4. Caracas, Venezuela
5. Karachi, Pakistan
6. Lahore, Pakistan
7. San Salvador, El Salvador
8. Lagos, Nigeria
9. San Pedro Sula, Honduras
10. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Guatemala City, Nairobi and Mexico City - close but no cigar.
A special kind of nutjobbery is at play when people resort to using caps to try and impress you with how much crime and corruption (they think) they have. This is weird, very creepy stuff.
People are fooled by this index repeatedly all over the web on what is otherwise a great website.
@potevan1 on Twitter and potevanalweer on Disqus.....
So I do not buy the notion of SA being one of the most dangerous places to stay in or even visit and the rubbish that Most black South Africans love violence. These stupid stats are all relative and never reflect the true picture of the country. I bet you not all 80% of the black South African population participated in these surveys. I've been to the Brazilian favelas in Rio and Sao Palo and mingling with the locals was one of the best experiences I had and not even a single incident I experienced. But I bet you, you we all misled to believe these favelas are A TO NO GO ZONES. So stop exaggerating every incident and blowing the stats out of proportion just because you experienced it. Not all South African experienced the unfortunate incident that you did and believe that it only happens in SA only. For your information it happens everywhere in the world.
Have you asked yourself if other countries in the world capture and record every single incident reported to their police stations like we do in South Africa. My answer is no, in my last ten years I travelled and spent some time to over 40 African countries and the small incident that take place in their communities are hardly even reported to the police stations, because either the police station is far or the community members deem the incident insignificant to report or its either handled in the local tribal tribunals. So to all the bloody racist white South African, catch a wake up. You stay by far in a more nicer and tolerant, natural disaster free and politically stable country than anywhere else in the world. The guns loving USA you aspire to become or live in has more people dying from guns than our South African murders.
I commend the author of the website. Barring the pointless crime section (not his fault) it's a marvelous effort. I love it. Fantastic stuff and I would recommend it to anyone.
With reference to comment from Jack Mar 6, 2018 - I worked in tourism and still tell visitors to be careful but they think South African's are exaggerating so often end up having problems."
Uh, that's because you do exaggerate Hollier.
Problems? Pickpocketing and scams don't count. Tourists are regularly murdered in numerous other countries. That's 'problems'.
The countries you highlighted have them, much of the rest of Africa does as well. You can see why these countries are under an alert if you've experienced them or read up on what happens to tourists. They're in a different league to South Africa.
If you want to visit, do not come to South Africa, it's a cruel and dark place to be, with no rules and no consequences. A cell phone is worth more than a life. People get killed brutally just for the fun of it.
Talking of the good ol' USA, there is Mexico, Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil right underneath it. The only country you could say SA is slightly better off than is Brazil. The others are comfortably more violent countries.
You can't take a country seriously from a safety point of view when it doesn't have any travel alerts in place.
Tourists are almost never killed or even seriously hurt which is a dead giveaway.