Three SA cities on list of 10 most dangerous
Three cities in South Africa have made it into the Numbeo’s list of the 10 most dangerous cities in the world.
Numbeo is a global database of reported consumer price, perceived crime rates, quality of health, cost of living, and others.
The data is generated from people who visit the website and answer survey questions.
Pretoria appears is number three on the list, followed by Johannesburg at number four and Durban at number six.
A total of 1278 people contributed to the survey.
Cape Town comes out at number 18.
Numbeo has also rated South Africa’s overall crime rate as “very high”, with the majority of those surveyed saying crime has increased significantly in the past three years.
The website says it filters the surveys to eliminate spam.
“To present a survey result, we use a scale [0, 100] for values since it’s easier to read for users' generate a current index (which is always updated) we use data up to 36 months old. We include only cities for which there are at least a certain number of contributors. Our semi-annual index is remade twice per year by pushing current index into this historical view.
"Crime Index is an estimation of the overall level of crime in a given city or a country. We consider crime levels lower than 20 as very low, crime levels between 20 and 40 as being low, crime levels between 40 and 60 as being moderate, crime levels between 60 and 80 as being high, and finally crime levels higher than 80 as being very high," said Numbeo.
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