Singapore tops Global Geopolitical Safety Ranking (sv)
Date: 4 Dec 2025 – Public release on 15 Jan 2026 truncated
Dear reader
Singapore has recently unseated Uruguay at the top of the world’s Geopolitical Safety Ranking. As we hinted earlier this year, this change at the top was likely and has been in the pipeline for months.
Uruguay had managed a remarkable feat to stay at the top of this ranking for three long years. Something that should not be underestimated. Few countries have managed that achievement before and the South American nation has managed to stay among the Top 3. As nations focus on their Geopolitical Attractiveness, the field is getting competitive. Mauritius is in the spot no 2 of the global ranking.
But as investment veterans say, life happens and new governments have new priorities, your neighbours don’t talk to one another, you can’t keep up the same neutral stance, or – on the bright side – you manage to make course corrections to get back on track. The latter is the case of Singapore.
Singapore unseats Uruguay at the top
In the course of Q4 2025 the metrics got their way. As of Dec 1st Singapore unseated Uruguay as no 1, while Mauritius manages to maintain its second place for the second year in a row. Mauritius is definitely the nation that probably no one had on its cards. Some said a year ago its 2nd place in our ranking might end up being a temporary phenomenon. They were proven wrong.
Despite mounting pressures from Beijing and Washington and other allies Singapore managed to put its long term national interests first, keep neutrality and prepare to take advantage. The geopolitical-financial friendliness towards Washington was paired with the economic friendliness towards Beijing. Singapore avoids to take sides in highly controversial issues.
No nation is perfectly safe though. Singapore is situated at one of the most neuralgic maritime crossings on earth – the Strait of Malacca. Therefore it has to maintain a delicate geopolitical balance. In case of a large scale war, a superpower could practically block the entire trade between Asia and Europe by blocking this strait.
But we see Singapore managing these risks well lately and also coordinating immigration, taxes, banks, real estate, health care services and schools well .. to welcome and attract thousands of newcomers and their children. The degree of coordination is remarkable. But the island is so crowded already, the island state has had to raise the entry barriers and prices to reduce the influx.
In all fairness Uruguay‘s new government faced a truly challenging environment: its two giant neighbours went in diametrically opposed directions. While Argentina embraced free markets, Washington & Israel, Brazil embraced China, BRICS and it defied America head on. While we think the new left-leaning government is keeping overall a steady course, the international investment community and several powers perceived it as less neutral than before – this perceived reduction of its neutrality along simmering issues regarding cost competitiveness and limited attractiveness for skilled foreigners with teenage children is weighing in.
What could other nations learn from Singapore? This: Don’t rely on your allies. Allies are changing ever more quickly. Singapore has learnt to keep good relations with key powers, but to put its national interests FIRST – thus keeping a safe but friendly distance to every regional power. Most governments these days can’t help but to mix their own interests and their current allies’ interests, even if the facts show since 2013 that everyone is one its own. Many national leaders treat foreign governments as their closest allies and the leaders of other parties in their own country as arch enemies.
Switzerland, sole Western nation in Top 10
The typical “legacy” countries that our media and internet hail as the safest places on earth are nowhere in sight at the top of the Global Geopolitical Safety ranking. In fact only one of the Western legacy nations makes it to the Top 10, that is deservedly Switzerland. While the country still attracts European exiles, the Alpine nation sits in a midst of a continent in trouble, and in denial. Worst off it is being forced to gradually submit to EU laws & regulations and to somehow water down its neutrality. Its army has de facto aligned itself with NATO.
Behind Singapore’s rise .. something’s unfolding in Europe.
Predictions dismissed, but proven right
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