Crowd-Sourced Website Ranks Georgia World’s 3rd Safest Country

TBILISI – An unofficial crowd-sourced global database known as Numbeo has ranked Georgia the third safest country in the world.

Numbeo.com, which collects unsourced and unconfirmed information from users, ranked Georgia behind South Korea and Singapore in its poll of the world’s safest countries.

According to the site’s findings, Georgia has a low crime index based on the number of reported crimes in the country over the last three years.

The data used to measure Georgia’s crime index was culled from the results of a standard online poll on the Numbeo website. Visitors were asked how safe they feel when walking in the capital Tbilisi’s streets at various times of the day.

The Serbia-based website was reportedly founded by former Google employee Mladen Adamovic in 2009 and claims to be the world’s largest database of user-contributed information about cities and countries worldwide.

The site is primarily known as an online source for users to share and compare information about the cost of living in various countries and cities around the world.

Numbeo has come under sharp criticism for it claims due to the lack of a third party check or audit of the accuracy of data.

By Tamar Svanidze and Nicholas Waller

Photo: Dmitriy Chistoprudov