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The Cities with Most Surveillance in the World

This is a quite surprising fact that the global urban population has taken over the rural population. According to the records of the year 2007, the two groups were split nearly 50/50, with around 3.3 billion people apiece. In today’s date, the percentage of people who live in the urban areas has grown to be over 55% and is expected to reach 68% by the year 2050. It is because of this trend that many of the world’s largest cities have become home to millions of people.

Due to this increasing density in the urban areas, different businesses, households and also governments have installed numerous security cameras which could serve many purposes but the mainly being crime protection. To get a hold of the scale of this surveillance, data from a recent report by Comparitech is taken which helps to visualize the most surveilled cities in the world.

The List of most surveilled cities

Rank

City

Population

Number of Cameras

Cameras per 1,000 people

1

Indore, India

3.2M

200,600

63

2

Hyderabad, India

10.5M

440,299

42

3

Delhi, India

16.3M

436,600

27

4

Chennai, India

11.5M

282,126

25

5

Singapore

6.0M

108,981

18

6

Moscow, Russia

12.6M

213,000

17

7

Baghdad, Iraq

7.5M

120,000

16

8

London, UK

9.5M

127,373

13

9

St. Petersburg, Russia

5.5M

70,000

13

10

Los Angeles, U.S.

3.9M

34,959

9

Figures rounded

The top four cities on this list belong to India, the world’s second largest country by population. The more the population, the higher is the ratio of crime so the surveillance cameras play their role in the country’s efforts to reduce crimes especially against women.

Further down the list are cities from a variety of countries. One of these cities is Moscow, the capital of Russia, which has expanded its use of surveillance cameras in recent years. Given the country’s track record of human rights violations, activists are worried that facial recognition technology could become a tool of spreading malice.

The only American city on the list is Los Angeles, which contains some of the country’s wealthiest neighborhoods and municipalities. That includes Beverly Hills, which according to the Los Angeles Times, has over 2,000 cameras for its population of 32,500. That means there are about 62 cameras per 1,000 people, denoting that Beverly Hills would rank at #2 in the global ranking if it were listed as a separate entity.

Surveillance in China

According to the estimates of the year 2021 by IHS Markit, there are over 1 billion surveillance cameras installed worldwide. The firm believes that 54% of the cameras are located in different cities of China. Let’s make an assumption that China has 540 million cameras installed and divide this number amongst the population that is of 1.46 billion, we can say that there are 373 cameras per 1,000 people (figures have been rounded). This approach has a limitation that it assumes that all communities in China are urban. Well, which is not true.

China’s extensive use of cameras and facial recognition technology has been broadly acknowledged by the media. These networks support China’s social credit program, which gives local governments an extraordinary amount of supervision over its citizens. For example, China’s camera networks can be used to verify ATM withdrawals, and are so strong that they permit access into homes, and can be used to even openly humiliate people for petty offences like jaywalking.

The Cities with Most Surveillance in the World

Infographic by: visualcapitalist 

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The Cities with Most Surveillance in the World #Infographic

The Cities with Most Surveillance in the World

This is a quite surprising fact that the global urban population has taken over the rural population. According to the records of the year 2007, the two groups were split nearly 50/50, with around 3.3 billion people apiece. In today’s date, the percentage of people who live in the urban areas has grown to be over 55% and is expected to reach 68% by the year 2050. It is because of this trend that many of the world’s largest cities have become home to millions of people.

Due to this increasing density in the urban areas, different businesses, households and also governments have installed numerous security cameras which could serve many purposes but the mainly being crime protection. To get a hold of the scale of this surveillance, data from a recent report by Comparitech is taken which helps to visualize the most surveilled cities in the world.

The List of most surveilled cities

Rank

City

Population

Number of Cameras

Cameras per 1,000 people

1

Indore, India

3.2M

200,600

63

2

Hyderabad, India

10.5M

440,299

42

3

Delhi, India

16.3M

436,600

27

4

Chennai, India

11.5M

282,126

25

5

Singapore

6.0M

108,981

18

6

Moscow, Russia

12.6M

213,000

17

7

Baghdad, Iraq

7.5M

120,000

16

8

London, UK

9.5M

127,373

13

9

St. Petersburg, Russia

5.5M

70,000

13

10

Los Angeles, U.S.

3.9M

34,959

9

Figures rounded

The top four cities on this list belong to India, the world’s second largest country by population. The more the population, the higher is the ratio of crime so the surveillance cameras play their role in the country’s efforts to reduce crimes especially against women.

Further down the list are cities from a variety of countries. One of these cities is Moscow, the capital of Russia, which has expanded its use of surveillance cameras in recent years. Given the country’s track record of human rights violations, activists are worried that facial recognition technology could become a tool of spreading malice.

The only American city on the list is Los Angeles, which contains some of the country’s wealthiest neighborhoods and municipalities. That includes Beverly Hills, which according to the Los Angeles Times, has over 2,000 cameras for its population of 32,500. That means there are about 62 cameras per 1,000 people, denoting that Beverly Hills would rank at #2 in the global ranking if it were listed as a separate entity.

Surveillance in China

According to the estimates of the year 2021 by IHS Markit, there are over 1 billion surveillance cameras installed worldwide. The firm believes that 54% of the cameras are located in different cities of China. Let’s make an assumption that China has 540 million cameras installed and divide this number amongst the population that is of 1.46 billion, we can say that there are 373 cameras per 1,000 people (figures have been rounded). This approach has a limitation that it assumes that all communities in China are urban. Well, which is not true.

China’s extensive use of cameras and facial recognition technology has been broadly acknowledged by the media. These networks support China’s social credit program, which gives local governments an extraordinary amount of supervision over its citizens. For example, China’s camera networks can be used to verify ATM withdrawals, and are so strong that they permit access into homes, and can be used to even openly humiliate people for petty offences like jaywalking.

The Cities with Most Surveillance in the World

Infographic by: visualcapitalist 

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