The Lloyd’s Register Foundation Safety Perceptions Index (SPI)  provides a comprehensive assessment of worries and  experiences of risk across 121 countries. The SPI is a unique  body of work, providing a deeper understanding of citizens’  feelings of safety than any other publicly available source. The  index is produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace  (IEP) on the basis of data from the World Risk Poll, a global  survey designed by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation and  administered by Gallup.

This is the second edition of the SPI. The report analyses two  iterations of the World Risk Poll, the first conducted in 2019 and  the second conducted in 2021; providing commentary, trends,  and insights into these two sets of data. One of the defining  features of the research is that one survey was administered  prior to the onset of COVID-19 and the other was administered  afterwards, allowing for an analysis of the effects of the  pandemic on perceptions of risk. This report will be useful in  the decades ahead as it will give insight into likely shifts in  perceptions of risk for any future pandemics that may occur.

The SPI measures two themes, worry about harm and recent  experience of serious harm, analysing them across five domains:  food and water, violent crime, severe weather, mental health, and  workplace safety. These themes and domains are combined into  a composite score which reflects perceptions of safety by  country and region.