Report: 68% of Moroccans feel safe walking alone at night

The 2025 Global Safety Report, published by Gallup, a U.S.-based analytics and advisory company, found that 68% of Moroccans feel safe walking alone at night. The figure is close to the global average of 73% of adults who reported feeling safe in 2024.

In the Gulf region, perceptions of safety are higher, with Oman at 94%, Saudi Arabia at 93%, Kuwait at 91%, and both Bahrain and the UAE at 90%. Lower levels were recorded in Tunisia at 64%, Turkey at 52%, and South Africa at 33%.

Morocco achieved a score of 78 in the 2024 Law and Order Index, similar to Bangladesh and Panama, but trailing Burkina Faso with 81 and Nepal with 80. The Kingdom ranked ahead of Tunisia with 74 and South Africa with 61.

The index was topped by Tajikistan with 97 and Singapore with 95, while Sierra Leone with 55 and Liberia with 49 ranked lowest.

Gallup’s Law and Order Index measures safety based on feelings of security while walking alone at night, confidence in local police, and experiences with assault and theft in the past year. It is based on surveys of at least 1,000 adults aged 15 and older in 144 countries and territories.

Global perceptions of safety improved steadily from 2014 to 2020, but this progress reversed from 2021 to 2023. In 2024, there was a significant rebound, reflecting a renewed sense of security worldwide, according to the same source.

Despite facing more armed conflicts than at any time since the Second World War, according to the report, people are reporting feeling safer in their communities than ever before.

Yet, Women remain less likely than men to feel secure, a gap that persists across more than 100 countries regardless of income or stability.

In sub-Saharan Africa, safety perceptions also improved to 53%. This four-point surge from a 2021 low of 49% brought the region back in line with its long-term trend.

In 2024, people felt most safe in Singapore at 98%, Tajikistan at 95%, and China at 94%, while the least safe countries were South Africa at 33%, Lesotho at 34%, and Botswana at 34%.