MANILA, Philippines — After the Philippines ranked last out of 134 countries on a list of the world’s safest countries this 2021, Malacaang said on Friday it is “optimistic that things would be better.”
In Global Finance’s ranking of the world’s safest countries, the Philippines was again at the bottom of its list just like in the magazine’s 2019 list, which then evaluated 128 nations.
The magazine said it considered three fundamental factors to determine the countries’ safety scores — war and peace, personal security, and natural disaster risk, including factors stemming from the COVID-19.
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