The number of serious criminal offences in Switzerland has risen but more in some Swiss regions than in others.

According to World Population Review and Global Peace Index here is a list of eight countries with the lowest crime rate in the world.

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After hundreds of years of letting local cantons determine gun rules, Switzerland passed its first federal regulations on guns in 1999, after the country's crime rate increased during 1990s.

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More than half of these incidents (52.5%) were categorized as "traditional" forms of antisemitism, while 14.4% were related ...