The safest places in Europe...

Interesting map. Why is there such difference in the crime rate northern Italy vs southern Italy???? No other country in Europe seems to have that distinction.

"Why is there such difference in the crime rate northern Italy vs southern Italy????" Perhaps the 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra have something to do with it?

I thought of that, but do their activities really much of a direct impact on the general population that it would skew the crime rates? Unless of course corruption is figured into the calculations.

This map charts risk to business/organization management and employees/representatives, as I understand it. I don't think it speaks directly to the risks of travel, does it? Still, I think you might see a similar pattern for travelers. Probably not for Germany vs. the USA, though (who fall in the same safety range on this map.) It seems like something is always happening to German tourists here. Last year, one was gunned down in San Francisco's Union Square. In the same week, a SF motorist ran down a German bicyclist in a hit-and-run homicide. And of course Miami's thugs have been killing German tourists for decades. I might be wrong, but I always feel about 10 times safer in any given German city than I do in a comparably-sized US city.

That table doesn't relate to safe of the occasional tourist travel.

Perhaps the difference in Italy is because there is a lot more poverty in the south.