A citizen feels safe in the place where he lives when he trusts the local police, walks alone at night undisturbed, has not had cases of theft of property or has not been attacked or robbed.

But how safe do Albanian citizens feel?! Albania scores 80 in the world for safety, according to Gallup's Law and Order Index for 2022. The higher the score, the higher the percentage of the population that reports feeling safe. Compared to a year ago, Albanians feel more insecure (2021, 83 points).

We are second to last in the Balkans, leaving behind only North Macedonia with 77 points. Kosovo is ranked among the countries where people feel safer, with 90 points, Montenegro with 86 points and Serbia with 82 points.

Around seven in 10 people worldwide say they feel safe walking alone at night where they live (71%) and trust their local police (72%).

According to Gallup's latest survey, with data from the past year, about one in eight (12%) say they or another family member had property stolen in the past year, and one in 16 (6%) said they were attacked or robbed. None of these figures have changed much between 2021 and 2022.

The percentage of people who said they felt safe walking alone at night was unchanged from a year earlier, and the percentage who were attacked or robbed was unchanged for the fifth consecutive year.

Meanwhile, the percentage of people in 2022 who said they had stolen property rose one point from 11% in 2021.

Only people's trust in their local police showed signs of recovery after a slump in 2021.

People's confidence in their local police began to rise again, increasing by two points to reach a numerical high in the 17 years that Gallup has been doing this index.

The index score for the world in 2022 was 83 out of a possible 100 – unchanged from 2021 and essentially unchanged from scores since 2017. Country-level scores in 2022 ranged from 96 in Tajikistan to 49 in Liberia.

Liberia's low score on the index in 2022 is largely attributed to the high percentage of residents who have been victims of crime and their lack of trust in the local police. Most Liberians (53%) said they or other family members had money or property stolen in the past year, one of the highest rates in the world, along with Sierra Leone (52%). Also, less than half of Liberians (45%) expressed confidence in their local police.

Tajikistan, the current leader, trailed only Singapore on the index in 2021. Before 2022, Singapore had scored the highest on the index almost every year except 2020.

(Source: Monitor)