10 Most Unsafe Countries In The World, As Per 2025 Crime Index
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People are rating several factors, including their perception of general crime levels, how safe they feel during the day and at night, concerns about being mugged, robbed, harassed, or worse, as well as the severity of property crimes like theft, burglary, and vandalism, and violent crimes such as assault, homicide, and sexual violence. Of course, this is all about perception, not actual police records.
The Crime Index list may help travellers plan their destinations.
Here are 10 countries that ranked highest on the Crime Index:
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - 82.7
Pretoria, South Africa - 81.8
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea - 81.4
Caracas, Venezuela - 81.3
Johannesburg, South Africa - 80.8
Durban, South Africa - 80.4
San Pedro Sula, Honduras - 79.4
Port Elizabeth, South Africa - 78.3
Memphis, TN, United States - 78.0
Salvador - Brazil
India is not on this particular list, but it still falls into the "moderate" crime bracket, the report added. Urban safety varies from city to city, so travellers should do some digging before deciding where to stay or what to explore.
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I can't wait to get back to Mumbai,' says Mostafa Kamal Sheikh, 52, his grey T-shirt blending into the grey of the unpainted walls behind him. 'Mumbai never sleeps. I used to work from 3 pm to 1 am at night. There is money and there is life. Here in the village, everything shuts down by 6 pm and then it gets all dark,' he says, sitting at his sister's home in Baghra village in West Bengal's Purba Bardhman district. Kamal's longing for Mumbai — the city where he has made a living since 1999, first as a dockyard worker and then as a 'jhal muri' vendor in Nalasopara — is as strong as his memory of a recent nightmare: of being detained by the Mumbai Police, tagged as an illegal Bangladeshi resident, handed over to the Border Security Force (BSF) and finally driven like cattle across the barbed-wire fencing at the border. The nights he spent on the no-man's land across the border with Bangladesh were long — and much darker than his village at night. When he finally got home on June 17 – after the 'babus' had verified and established that he was who he claimed to be — Kamal was tired and broken. Panic over detentions Kamal is among the thousands of migrant workers from West Bengal who have over the last few months been detained and, in some cases like Kamal's, pushed into the neighboring country as part of an ongoing drive against illegal Bangladeshis. In March, The Indian Express had reported how more than 2,000 alleged illegal Bangladeshi immigrants were estimated to have been 'pushed back' across the border by Indian authorities since Operation Sindoor began in the early hours of May 7. During this period, sources said, a similar number of immigrants showed up near the India-Bangladesh border voluntarily to cross over. While the drive against alleged illegal migrants intensified post Pahalgam, reports of detentions had been coming in even earlier from across the country — from Gurgaon, where the Haryana government demolished slums in March, to similar drives in Assam and Gujarat. With the drive focused on alleged 'illegal Bangladeshis', it's the Bengali-speaking migrant workers in these cities who have borne the brunt, with some of them packing their bags and returning to their home state. More detentions followed — in Gujarat and Rajasthan in May, followed by Maharashtra (Mumbai) and Odisha in June, and Delhi and Gurgaon in July. At Jharsuguda in Odisha, 444 Bengali-speaking migrant workers were kept in a detention centre before they were finally released. Back in West Bengal, which is heading into an election year in a few months, the detentions have turned into a hot-button issue. 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