World’s Most Dangerous Countries Revealed, And It May Change Your Travel Plans
Just like last year, International SOS and Control Risks have released a map that shows just how tourist-friendly all countries are, and it’s worth looking at if you’re planning a trip for 2018 to a place you’ve never been before. After all, we all like coming back from a holiday with all of our limbs and other valuables.
Collecting data from the World Health Organization and other institutions, the interactive ‘Travel Risk Map’ reveals just how risky countries are regarding road safety, security and medical matters. According to The Ipsos Mori Business Resilience Trends Watch 2018, 63% of people think travel-related risks have increased during the past year. In the paper, security threats and natural disasters were cited as main reasons for changed travel plans.
Scroll down to check out how countries rank up against each other and let us know what you think about it in the comment section below!
More info: travelriskmap.com (h/t)
This is how much travelers will be risking their health in 2018 across the globe
And this is how the world looks from a security threat point of view
Finally, the number of road accidents
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I lived in Chicago, IL, USA for 17 years and moved after a guy was shot right across the street from my apartment. People were stabbed in my neighborhood too, mostly gang activity which I'd never be targeted, but getting caught in the crossfire was always a possibility. Now I live in a small town in Minnesota, USA, where the police cars I'm sure are collecting dust. When I go on vacation, I, like most vacationers, mostly go to the vibrant, highly populated cities which invariably have a ton more crime than the more boring and unvisited places. So, in most of the USA, you don't have to worry about gunshots. But if you head to of Chicago, NYC, LA, Miami, etc, your risk level shoots way up.
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I don't trust these assessments, because the specific cities with have wildly different stats, especially when you consider densely populated cities vs suburban or rural areas. The USA and France are given a "Low" security threat rating, but think of all the terrorist attacks in the major tourist centers there like New York and Paris. These maps are ridiculous.
You're being suckered by politicians who want you to be scared. Less than 250 people have been killed by terrorists in France in the last 17 years, an average of about 30 per year. Compare that to any other type of non-disease death and it's nothing. Don't believe the hype.
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Can't have a bad road safety rating if you don't have roads ;) K0KPgis-5a...bee4e7.jpg 
Damn it!! I was sooooo looking forward to my tour of Chad and the Sudan! Guess I'll go to Greenland!
I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Those colors are WAY wrong, believe me!! We're living in a civil war. This year, only in Rio, 118 police officers were killed, so far. A german tourist lost his bike in a university. Lucky him, because people at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas were killed for their bikes.
I agree with you! ... if you value your life and your relatives and friends, then do not come to rio de janeiro!
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Luspea, thanks for your comment. We've included explanations for every individual map as well!
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They marked Bhutan high. I am from Bhutan 🇧🇹 and it’s a paradise. We talk about happiness and prosperity not danger. Please don’t share such ignorant facts. Our country depends on tourism and if a big site such as #boredpanda encourages it, it can have a huge effect on our small country and a small economy. My country where tourism is the second economy is often referred to as the happiest country in the world and the last Shangri-La. I understand there are more than just violence to consider while factoring our the levels of danger, but even considering the other risk actors we are still very safe.
I have to agree with this, Bhutan is a paradise and quite safe. The food is all organic and grown from LUSH, clean, verdant lands, the water is straight from glaciers, and there is just zero smog due to a complete lack of coal power plants, so the health risk is quite low. You're breathing air as clean as the Swiss! Moreover since this is directed at tourists - you are 100% guaranteed as a tourist to have 2 registered local people with you at all times to advise you on travel; a guide and a driver, as required by travel bureau of the kingdom. Also as a tourist, health care is completely free, and if the well-educated doctors in Bhutan cannot fix you, the free health care extends to the plane ticket which will send you to a superior Indian hospital. Bhutan takes care of its tourists like nowhere else in the world. Furthermore, there are early curfews, so you don't have high risk nightlife. Bhutan is as safe as it gets.
Load More Replies... Canada will be moving up this list rapidly now that trudope has said he's going to give Isis terrorists citizenship.
Lots of chatter about gun violence in the US.......thought someone should point out that over 60% of gun related deaths in the US are the result of SUICIDE, not homicide.
I would not have Turkey in the green zone. They have had all kinds of terrorist incidents allegedly carried out by Kurdish rebels. There is also thought to be ISIS fighters running around there. Lastly Erdoğan is not the nicest of all people. He has brutally crushed any opposition and has stooped so low as to conspire with a rogue US official to get his hands on his main opposition who lives in Pennsylvania. Not the greatest of vacation locations.
Clearly these guys have never been to India. Most dangerous place in the world to drive.
Yup.. as an Indian, i agree. I have not learned driving because i love my life...
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Wow, Australia is really safe after all. Ironic, considering our reputation internationally, where everyone seems to think everything is continually trying to kill us.
Why does there apear to be a direct correlation between dangerous living and living closer to the equator ?
You guys (the maker/s of this article) are delusional! As an example: are roads in Sweden safe? Yes, but is it safe to walk around, alone, at night, without fearing you'll be raped/stabbed/followed or beaten to pulp? NO!! And that comes from someone that used to live in BAD areas of Los Angeles for over 18 yrs!! (born in Sweden) The most safe I've ever felt was during a lengthy stay in Shanghai and also Czech Republic. Isn't it also somewhat LOGICAL to keep in mind that if One ventures into certain cities/countries, to keep an eye open?? Or is it common sense to blatantly trust unknown regions and its people because that is the "human way to think"?? I also refuse to be a bloody victim of the Terrorist Propaganda that is being forcefed to us by governments as if we are undernourished geese waiting to be slaughtered for next christmas!
Travelling to Turkey is safe?! Who made this list, Turkish government? Not to mention that Isis, Daesh or however they call themselves now were recently threatening with terroristic attacks during Christmas fairs. So good luck, really safe countries. Just make sure that your insurance covers body transport.
seems like someone from USA made the map. he/she may have forgotten it's the only country in the world you can buy guns from grocery stores
And yet that doesn't begin to factor into the "deaths by" stats. With 300 million guns you'd think there would be at least 1 million gun deaths/year. Don't see it though.
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Why thank you! (I think posts like these would flatter Canada if it was a person.)
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Road safety is high in Africa, yet it is the most dangerous country to go to...? Kinda ironic, isnt it?
I think they mean road risk or something. I cant imagine Africa having high road safety when there are barely any roads there .
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Goos thing I'm a New Zealander living in Canada! Safe on both ends! Pwef!
Hi ,very informative article but trinidad&tobago for crime is coloured medium to low which is incorrect ,the murder rate for the year in that country is 425 to date !!! none solved the police are just uneducated and incompetent ,things are so bad bodies locals and visitors are piled up at the morgue Russian pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov has left trinidad and tobago because of high government officials and police meddling in murder cases as well poor facilities for dead bodies and samples . Tourist are at great risk when visiting trinidad&tobago and crime warnings are very often issued by various countries warning their citizens of the high crime rate
Canada at it again with the safer roads and low risk traveling, eeeeehh? maple syrup
I watched Canadas Worst Drivers on Netflix. I don’t trust your roads to be safe :P
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Are you serious Sweden is coming at second place after South Africa of getting raped.
It's not quite that simple. For one, Sweden counts rapes different than most countries. For example: If a husband rapes his wife each week over the course of one year, in most countries it would enter the criminal statistics as "1 rape" - in Sweden it would be registered as "52 rapes". If you get raped by the same guy in one night 4 times, most countries make one single entry for rape, and again, Sweden makes 4.
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Can I also write anything like this without having significant knowledge about it and without any source of proof?
I would be inclined to color the U,S. orange as it seems to be the target of most extremist group. Only time will tell.
No big city is safe, especially after dark. You couldn't pay me to live in a big city, I don't care where it is.
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I retired at age 52, and have now traveled for over 8 years with my wife in 23 third world countries in Central/South America and Asia. If you want to travel in many of these areas that I have experienced with the exception of a very few that are now truly dangerous (like Venezuela), take these ratings with a huge grain of salt. Also, do not necessarily believe the U.S. State Department’s safety ratings. Do your own online research. The sum TOTAL of my bad experiences is: stolen rain jacket in Ecuador (probably stolen by another American who was the only other person there that we saw), and stolen lunches from the front basket of a rented motorbike in Cambodia. That’s it. I have had worse experiences in several U.S. cities in the past. Yes, you can be injured or killed nearly anywhere, but in general, my experience is that the people of these countries are far friendlier than most U.S. cities, and far less likely to harm you. Just wear your damned seat belt, and act reasonably.
This is a joke, considering that the Northern Triangle has the most homicides outside of a war zone.
And what was actually the reasoning behind these maps? Roads in Iran & Kazakhstan are MUCH worse than India & Pakistan? Sorry, but that is absolute BS.
You know...Canada is really not that safe actually. The crime in BC, especially Vancouver is pretty bad.
Greenland is a safe country with a very low crime rate and we welcome visitors.
Security for whom? It greatly depends on the country you're coming from, and the currency you hold, as well!
Oh, n all of Australia is SAFE?! Lol! They're the nation that banned an episode of Peppa Pig! A KIDS show!
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On the basis of WHAT data exactly? Ooops, I forgot, no facts are needed to badmouth Russia for unspecified reasons, right?
I lived 5 years in Guatemala and currently living in south Colombia,both place are high dangerous from the maps..indeed are two amazing places with awesome people,always felt more safe then Italy (I'm from there)
I have to advise on a high health risk in the Philippines. There simply is not a culture of hygiene here, and that extends to those who handle your food and water. Just try to picture a street kiosk that sells chicken and has one large bowl of dip for the whole community to share! Even locally bottled water has visible bits floating about in it. Foreign travelers almost always get some kind of food poisoning or horrible indigestion/pain from eating the local food, even if it's not the street food - which anyone will advise you to steer clear of. Aside from that, it's rife with dengue-ridden mosquitoes that will ruin any vacation - and they are prevalent in cities just as much as the provinces. Then there is the smog, thanks to absolutely unchecked emissions on a proliferation of public transport motorbikes and vehicles powered by decades-old diesels with no catalytic converters, combined with the freely burning trash in the streets. Friendly people, unfriendly environment.
This is not right, some Citys on Brasil are very dangeroes...and in Spain there are a lot of read accidents than in Portugal...
The republic of Georgia medium in health and safety?? I have been there. It is healthy and very safe. I walking around at night with camera for night photos and never once had any hassle, yet I was hassled all hours of the day and evening in Turkey(Istanbul)
If you go to India, you are likely to get kidnapped by plain clothed police officers for talking about the facts that happend in the history of India. Most of the people only know the rich and amusing history of Indian, but not the dark side of it. #freejagginow
Interesting post but such maps are just a visual help meaningless without solid data and methodology behind them.
I do not understand why they just do not divide the United States as well - I would not think that Texas is as safe as New York state.
The good 'Old U.S.A.' is the most dangerous place on the planet.....not to it's citizens perhaps (unless you are a young black male], but to the rest of the world.....the recent drone attacks on Yemen by the U.S. proxy Saudi Arabia comes to mind . Murder and mayhem is the U.S.'s greatest export. War, war and more war is the mantra that comes from Washington. Torture is not a problem it is just what we do. I remember Madeline Albright saying in 1996 that the death of 500,000 Iraqi due to sanctions "was a high price to pay but we think it's worth it ". A revealing comment I believe on the soul of the U.S> Wake up and look in the mirror! You are the problem.
Greenland medium ? Once i met a guy from there who told me if i want to live secure i should move there because it's the only part of the world where people are safe?!
And also where is Armenia? I see Georgia, Azerbaijan which is younger than Coca-Cola, Iran and Turkey but not Armenia.
With all the mass shootings almost every month, I would say that the USA is one of the most dangerous countries in the world.
I fully agree with you. And as a Canadian, I'd sooner take my chances with France or the UK than the US any day... You couldn't pay me enough to cross the border now...
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Norway is green across the board. Just don’t make one showing rainy and overcast days per year on a green to red scale and we’re good.
The USA is safe.... in the middle of Minnesota but I wouldn't recommend visiting Chicago and there are parts of Los Angeles even Nazi's wouldn't invade.
Want to know a reliable website for what countries are dangerous? Check out http://smartraveller.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx
I really love BP content, but I have a beef with the caption/headline writer. Typos, misspellings, and here they've got the description of the last set of maps backwards. According to the "Finally, road safety" maps color key, road safety is very low in Canada and high in Russia. And driving in Kazakhstan is apparently a walk in the park.
I love how Switzerland is the only completely save place in Europe. (for Czech republic... you should be save as long you are not black... sorry, we have some idiots here and killing them is still illegal)
Also, on the road safety one, it's insane that USA is in the same color as Italy.
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This is BS. I feel a lot safer in some of those red places than I do the US. You can't take WHO data and apply it to tourism. You're not going to die of malnutrition, AIDS or from drinking sewage by visiting a country where those things occur. And the security data seems to include endemic violence. There are plenty of places you might get robbed or kidnapped, but you're not going to be killed by a rival gang or caught up in a sectarian dispute. The road safety is the one I'd really worry about.
I've lived in both China and the US for long enough to tell you that China is so much safer than the US. I was always hanging out with friends towards midnight and I could walk home alone and don't need to worry about anything bad.
Say that to the belgian woman killed in New York, or those who were killed in Boston, or the unlucky next one who may die after some crazy jerk decide to go on a killing spree. Very safe indeed.
I would argue otherwise. Our roads are very developed(in my area at least), but there are so many gun points. I remember the taxi strike from this year. It was really dangerous. Aside from that, there is a car crash daily on the N1. The roads that are “safe“ often dont have robots or pavement.
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No? North Korea is the same security threat as Russia
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You know it's full of s**t when the US and Canada are the same color. NICE TRY DICKWADS. Try again.
The number one place I wouldn't go to because of safety is the USA. A mass shooting guaranteed every single day along with all the single homicides.
I cannot believe that America is a low risk. You take your life over there just going to the grocery store. Where as Ireland and the UK it is illegal to own a gun without a special licence.
Who made this maps??? it's really funny that USA is perfect in all the maps even with the mass shooting they had in the last months.. while Russia is the worst in all of them. not saying I'll stop going but you should tell the truth! Just saying...
Is it a joke?a political statement?Or a political statement joke maybe? I went to Morrocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Palestine, Israel, Turkey and i won't try the US, thanks, i'm fine. Even if i'm a white woman, i won't feel safe unless maybe with the wolves and bears in Wyoming, but far from people, and especially far from people who care guns.FEEL SAFE TO TRAVEL TO THIS PLACES, people are friendly and you are welcome if you are well raised and respectfull and curious : an human being.
Notably missing: a map showing the risk of death/injury from gun violence. I'm sure everyone affected by the 290+ mass shootings just in 2016 never thought it would happen to them, and small towns are not immune. https://www.massshootingtracker.org/data/2016
How is usa safe with all the mass murders, random shootings, gunning by cop etc etc. Unless you just count 'if it never happened to me it must be safe'
Because statistically the USA is extremely safe. Just like there's almost no threat from terrorism. 10,000 people in America die every year from drunk driving yet people are more scared of ISIS than Ford. As for gun deaths, the vast majority are gang/crime related etc. Average Joe has extremely little chance of being gunned down, despite what the 24hr news channels would lead you to believe. The numbers of innocent people who die is almost negligible when compared to the population as a whole.
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Wow! I didn't know USA is that safe! SO BIASED!!!!! As usual, They want to depict Africa as the worst continent ever! What a shame we still have to deal with this racist behavior
I have a hard time believing US is in the low category. Medium, maybe. Low, no way.
What are the data sources? All maps are sources of propaganda. They are used to show what the map maker wants to show you and data can't be skewed by colors, sizes, and different map projections. This is a cool post!
This sure doesn't reflect gun crime. In short, this is a false promotion.
Sorry, but the USA surely is not as safe as Europe! How many people are shot there every day? Close to 100, I'd guess. I don't think Europe can quite comete with that...
USA safe :)) what a joke, or the illegal terrorist state of Israel, those criminals that kill native Palestinian ppl every single day
Exactly what is meant by "Security Threat? As I see it, there is no bigger threat to the security of Planet Earth than the USA under Trump. The USA is the one and only country not cooperating on the Climate agreement and on top of that Trump has the codes to the nuclear arms belonging to a country that seems totally obsessed with arms and the right to kill.
I lived in Chicago, IL, USA for 17 years and moved after a guy was shot right across the street from my apartment. People were stabbed in my neighborhood too, mostly gang activity which I'd never be targeted, but getting caught in the crossfire was always a possibility. Now I live in a small town in Minnesota, USA, where the police cars I'm sure are collecting dust. When I go on vacation, I, like most vacationers, mostly go to the vibrant, highly populated cities which invariably have a ton more crime than the more boring and unvisited places. So, in most of the USA, you don't have to worry about gunshots. But if you head to of Chicago, NYC, LA, Miami, etc, your risk level shoots way up.
Load More Replies... I don't trust these assessments, because the specific cities with have wildly different stats, especially when you consider densely populated cities vs suburban or rural areas. The USA and France are given a "Low" security threat rating, but think of all the terrorist attacks in the major tourist centers there like New York and Paris. These maps are ridiculous.
You're being suckered by politicians who want you to be scared. Less than 250 people have been killed by terrorists in France in the last 17 years, an average of about 30 per year. Compare that to any other type of non-disease death and it's nothing. Don't believe the hype.
Load More Replies... Can't have a bad road safety rating if you don't have roads ;) K0KPgis-5a...bee4e7.jpg
Damn it!! I was sooooo looking forward to my tour of Chad and the Sudan! Guess I'll go to Greenland!
I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Those colors are WAY wrong, believe me!! We're living in a civil war. This year, only in Rio, 118 police officers were killed, so far. A german tourist lost his bike in a university. Lucky him, because people at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas were killed for their bikes.
I agree with you! ... if you value your life and your relatives and friends, then do not come to rio de janeiro!
Load More Replies... Luspea, thanks for your comment. We've included explanations for every individual map as well!
Load More Replies... They marked Bhutan high. I am from Bhutan 🇧🇹 and it’s a paradise. We talk about happiness and prosperity not danger. Please don’t share such ignorant facts. Our country depends on tourism and if a big site such as #boredpanda encourages it, it can have a huge effect on our small country and a small economy. My country where tourism is the second economy is often referred to as the happiest country in the world and the last Shangri-La. I understand there are more than just violence to consider while factoring our the levels of danger, but even considering the other risk actors we are still very safe.
I have to agree with this, Bhutan is a paradise and quite safe. The food is all organic and grown from LUSH, clean, verdant lands, the water is straight from glaciers, and there is just zero smog due to a complete lack of coal power plants, so the health risk is quite low. You're breathing air as clean as the Swiss! Moreover since this is directed at tourists - you are 100% guaranteed as a tourist to have 2 registered local people with you at all times to advise you on travel; a guide and a driver, as required by travel bureau of the kingdom. Also as a tourist, health care is completely free, and if the well-educated doctors in Bhutan cannot fix you, the free health care extends to the plane ticket which will send you to a superior Indian hospital. Bhutan takes care of its tourists like nowhere else in the world. Furthermore, there are early curfews, so you don't have high risk nightlife. Bhutan is as safe as it gets.
Load More Replies... Canada will be moving up this list rapidly now that trudope has said he's going to give Isis terrorists citizenship.
Lots of chatter about gun violence in the US.......thought someone should point out that over 60% of gun related deaths in the US are the result of SUICIDE, not homicide.
I would not have Turkey in the green zone. They have had all kinds of terrorist incidents allegedly carried out by Kurdish rebels. There is also thought to be ISIS fighters running around there. Lastly Erdoğan is not the nicest of all people. He has brutally crushed any opposition and has stooped so low as to conspire with a rogue US official to get his hands on his main opposition who lives in Pennsylvania. Not the greatest of vacation locations.
Clearly these guys have never been to India. Most dangerous place in the world to drive.
Yup.. as an Indian, i agree. I have not learned driving because i love my life...
Load More Replies... Wow, Australia is really safe after all. Ironic, considering our reputation internationally, where everyone seems to think everything is continually trying to kill us.
Why does there apear to be a direct correlation between dangerous living and living closer to the equator ?
You guys (the maker/s of this article) are delusional! As an example: are roads in Sweden safe? Yes, but is it safe to walk around, alone, at night, without fearing you'll be raped/stabbed/followed or beaten to pulp? NO!! And that comes from someone that used to live in BAD areas of Los Angeles for over 18 yrs!! (born in Sweden) The most safe I've ever felt was during a lengthy stay in Shanghai and also Czech Republic. Isn't it also somewhat LOGICAL to keep in mind that if One ventures into certain cities/countries, to keep an eye open?? Or is it common sense to blatantly trust unknown regions and its people because that is the "human way to think"?? I also refuse to be a bloody victim of the Terrorist Propaganda that is being forcefed to us by governments as if we are undernourished geese waiting to be slaughtered for next christmas!
Travelling to Turkey is safe?! Who made this list, Turkish government? Not to mention that Isis, Daesh or however they call themselves now were recently threatening with terroristic attacks during Christmas fairs. So good luck, really safe countries. Just make sure that your insurance covers body transport.
seems like someone from USA made the map. he/she may have forgotten it's the only country in the world you can buy guns from grocery stores
And yet that doesn't begin to factor into the "deaths by" stats. With 300 million guns you'd think there would be at least 1 million gun deaths/year. Don't see it though.
Load More Replies... Why thank you! (I think posts like these would flatter Canada if it was a person.)
Load More Replies... Road safety is high in Africa, yet it is the most dangerous country to go to...? Kinda ironic, isnt it?
I think they mean road risk or something. I cant imagine Africa having high road safety when there are barely any roads there .
Load More Replies... Goos thing I'm a New Zealander living in Canada! Safe on both ends! Pwef!
Hi ,very informative article but trinidad&tobago for crime is coloured medium to low which is incorrect ,the murder rate for the year in that country is 425 to date !!! none solved the police are just uneducated and incompetent ,things are so bad bodies locals and visitors are piled up at the morgue Russian pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov has left trinidad and tobago because of high government officials and police meddling in murder cases as well poor facilities for dead bodies and samples . Tourist are at great risk when visiting trinidad&tobago and crime warnings are very often issued by various countries warning their citizens of the high crime rate
Canada at it again with the safer roads and low risk traveling, eeeeehh? maple syrup
I watched Canadas Worst Drivers on Netflix. I don’t trust your roads to be safe :P
Load More Replies... Are you serious Sweden is coming at second place after South Africa of getting raped.
It's not quite that simple. For one, Sweden counts rapes different than most countries. For example: If a husband rapes his wife each week over the course of one year, in most countries it would enter the criminal statistics as "1 rape" - in Sweden it would be registered as "52 rapes". If you get raped by the same guy in one night 4 times, most countries make one single entry for rape, and again, Sweden makes 4.
Load More Replies... Can I also write anything like this without having significant knowledge about it and without any source of proof?
I would be inclined to color the U,S. orange as it seems to be the target of most extremist group. Only time will tell.
No big city is safe, especially after dark. You couldn't pay me to live in a big city, I don't care where it is.
Load More Replies... I retired at age 52, and have now traveled for over 8 years with my wife in 23 third world countries in Central/South America and Asia. If you want to travel in many of these areas that I have experienced with the exception of a very few that are now truly dangerous (like Venezuela), take these ratings with a huge grain of salt. Also, do not necessarily believe the U.S. State Department’s safety ratings. Do your own online research. The sum TOTAL of my bad experiences is: stolen rain jacket in Ecuador (probably stolen by another American who was the only other person there that we saw), and stolen lunches from the front basket of a rented motorbike in Cambodia. That’s it. I have had worse experiences in several U.S. cities in the past. Yes, you can be injured or killed nearly anywhere, but in general, my experience is that the people of these countries are far friendlier than most U.S. cities, and far less likely to harm you. Just wear your damned seat belt, and act reasonably.
This is a joke, considering that the Northern Triangle has the most homicides outside of a war zone.
And what was actually the reasoning behind these maps? Roads in Iran & Kazakhstan are MUCH worse than India & Pakistan? Sorry, but that is absolute BS.
You know...Canada is really not that safe actually. The crime in BC, especially Vancouver is pretty bad.
Greenland is a safe country with a very low crime rate and we welcome visitors.
Security for whom? It greatly depends on the country you're coming from, and the currency you hold, as well!
Oh, n all of Australia is SAFE?! Lol! They're the nation that banned an episode of Peppa Pig! A KIDS show!
Load More Replies... On the basis of WHAT data exactly? Ooops, I forgot, no facts are needed to badmouth Russia for unspecified reasons, right?
I lived 5 years in Guatemala and currently living in south Colombia,both place are high dangerous from the maps..indeed are two amazing places with awesome people,always felt more safe then Italy (I'm from there)
I have to advise on a high health risk in the Philippines. There simply is not a culture of hygiene here, and that extends to those who handle your food and water. Just try to picture a street kiosk that sells chicken and has one large bowl of dip for the whole community to share! Even locally bottled water has visible bits floating about in it. Foreign travelers almost always get some kind of food poisoning or horrible indigestion/pain from eating the local food, even if it's not the street food - which anyone will advise you to steer clear of. Aside from that, it's rife with dengue-ridden mosquitoes that will ruin any vacation - and they are prevalent in cities just as much as the provinces. Then there is the smog, thanks to absolutely unchecked emissions on a proliferation of public transport motorbikes and vehicles powered by decades-old diesels with no catalytic converters, combined with the freely burning trash in the streets. Friendly people, unfriendly environment.
This is not right, some Citys on Brasil are very dangeroes...and in Spain there are a lot of read accidents than in Portugal...
The republic of Georgia medium in health and safety?? I have been there. It is healthy and very safe. I walking around at night with camera for night photos and never once had any hassle, yet I was hassled all hours of the day and evening in Turkey(Istanbul)
If you go to India, you are likely to get kidnapped by plain clothed police officers for talking about the facts that happend in the history of India. Most of the people only know the rich and amusing history of Indian, but not the dark side of it. #freejagginow
Interesting post but such maps are just a visual help meaningless without solid data and methodology behind them.
I do not understand why they just do not divide the United States as well - I would not think that Texas is as safe as New York state.
The good 'Old U.S.A.' is the most dangerous place on the planet.....not to it's citizens perhaps (unless you are a young black male], but to the rest of the world.....the recent drone attacks on Yemen by the U.S. proxy Saudi Arabia comes to mind . Murder and mayhem is the U.S.'s greatest export. War, war and more war is the mantra that comes from Washington. Torture is not a problem it is just what we do. I remember Madeline Albright saying in 1996 that the death of 500,000 Iraqi due to sanctions "was a high price to pay but we think it's worth it ". A revealing comment I believe on the soul of the U.S> Wake up and look in the mirror! You are the problem.
Greenland medium ? Once i met a guy from there who told me if i want to live secure i should move there because it's the only part of the world where people are safe?!
And also where is Armenia? I see Georgia, Azerbaijan which is younger than Coca-Cola, Iran and Turkey but not Armenia.
With all the mass shootings almost every month, I would say that the USA is one of the most dangerous countries in the world.
I fully agree with you. And as a Canadian, I'd sooner take my chances with France or the UK than the US any day... You couldn't pay me enough to cross the border now...
Load More Replies... Norway is green across the board. Just don’t make one showing rainy and overcast days per year on a green to red scale and we’re good.
The USA is safe.... in the middle of Minnesota but I wouldn't recommend visiting Chicago and there are parts of Los Angeles even Nazi's wouldn't invade.
Want to know a reliable website for what countries are dangerous? Check out http://smartraveller.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx
I really love BP content, but I have a beef with the caption/headline writer. Typos, misspellings, and here they've got the description of the last set of maps backwards. According to the "Finally, road safety" maps color key, road safety is very low in Canada and high in Russia. And driving in Kazakhstan is apparently a walk in the park.
I love how Switzerland is the only completely save place in Europe. (for Czech republic... you should be save as long you are not black... sorry, we have some idiots here and killing them is still illegal)
Also, on the road safety one, it's insane that USA is in the same color as Italy.
Load More Replies... This is BS. I feel a lot safer in some of those red places than I do the US. You can't take WHO data and apply it to tourism. You're not going to die of malnutrition, AIDS or from drinking sewage by visiting a country where those things occur. And the security data seems to include endemic violence. There are plenty of places you might get robbed or kidnapped, but you're not going to be killed by a rival gang or caught up in a sectarian dispute. The road safety is the one I'd really worry about.
I've lived in both China and the US for long enough to tell you that China is so much safer than the US. I was always hanging out with friends towards midnight and I could walk home alone and don't need to worry about anything bad.
Say that to the belgian woman killed in New York, or those who were killed in Boston, or the unlucky next one who may die after some crazy jerk decide to go on a killing spree. Very safe indeed.
I would argue otherwise. Our roads are very developed(in my area at least), but there are so many gun points. I remember the taxi strike from this year. It was really dangerous. Aside from that, there is a car crash daily on the N1. The roads that are “safe“ often dont have robots or pavement.
Load More Replies... No? North Korea is the same security threat as Russia
Load More Replies... You know it's full of s**t when the US and Canada are the same color. NICE TRY DICKWADS. Try again.
The number one place I wouldn't go to because of safety is the USA. A mass shooting guaranteed every single day along with all the single homicides.
I cannot believe that America is a low risk. You take your life over there just going to the grocery store. Where as Ireland and the UK it is illegal to own a gun without a special licence.
Who made this maps??? it's really funny that USA is perfect in all the maps even with the mass shooting they had in the last months.. while Russia is the worst in all of them. not saying I'll stop going but you should tell the truth! Just saying...
Is it a joke?a political statement?Or a political statement joke maybe? I went to Morrocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Palestine, Israel, Turkey and i won't try the US, thanks, i'm fine. Even if i'm a white woman, i won't feel safe unless maybe with the wolves and bears in Wyoming, but far from people, and especially far from people who care guns.FEEL SAFE TO TRAVEL TO THIS PLACES, people are friendly and you are welcome if you are well raised and respectfull and curious : an human being.
Notably missing: a map showing the risk of death/injury from gun violence. I'm sure everyone affected by the 290+ mass shootings just in 2016 never thought it would happen to them, and small towns are not immune. https://www.massshootingtracker.org/data/2016
How is usa safe with all the mass murders, random shootings, gunning by cop etc etc. Unless you just count 'if it never happened to me it must be safe'
Because statistically the USA is extremely safe. Just like there's almost no threat from terrorism. 10,000 people in America die every year from drunk driving yet people are more scared of ISIS than Ford. As for gun deaths, the vast majority are gang/crime related etc. Average Joe has extremely little chance of being gunned down, despite what the 24hr news channels would lead you to believe. The numbers of innocent people who die is almost negligible when compared to the population as a whole.
Load More Replies... Wow! I didn't know USA is that safe! SO BIASED!!!!! As usual, They want to depict Africa as the worst continent ever! What a shame we still have to deal with this racist behavior
I have a hard time believing US is in the low category. Medium, maybe. Low, no way.
What are the data sources? All maps are sources of propaganda. They are used to show what the map maker wants to show you and data can't be skewed by colors, sizes, and different map projections. This is a cool post!
This sure doesn't reflect gun crime. In short, this is a false promotion.
Sorry, but the USA surely is not as safe as Europe! How many people are shot there every day? Close to 100, I'd guess. I don't think Europe can quite comete with that...
USA safe :)) what a joke, or the illegal terrorist state of Israel, those criminals that kill native Palestinian ppl every single day
Exactly what is meant by "Security Threat? As I see it, there is no bigger threat to the security of Planet Earth than the USA under Trump. The USA is the one and only country not cooperating on the Climate agreement and on top of that Trump has the codes to the nuclear arms belonging to a country that seems totally obsessed with arms and the right to kill.
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