Have you ever thought of moving to another country, but worried about your safety? It might be safer to live outside the United States, according to InterNations, which recently published the 2018 Expat Insider Survey, one of the world’s most comprehensive reports on what it's like to live abroad. (To learn more about the U.S. ranking on the 2019 survey, check out "Ranked: The 20 Most Dangerous Places to Live.")
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For the 2018 survey, 18,135 expats living in 187 territories and countries — from Germany to Greenland — responded. The results provide insight into what it’s like to live and work in 68 places, focusing on topics such as quality of life, working abroad, cost of living and more.
One of the most compelling areas of focus is the Safety & Security subcategory, which is part of the Quality of Life Index. This consists of three factors — peacefulness, personal safety and political stability — which the respondents rated on a scale of one to seven. The results were then bundled to create a global ranking of the most dangerous places for expats to live. InterNations also broke out the results to create a female global ranking, which was based on the replies from 8,855 women respondents.