World’s Most Dangerous Countries Revealed, And It May Change Your Travel Plans

So USA is quite safe I guess, dont have to worry about gun shot

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.

Damn it!! I was sooooo looking forward to my tour of Chad and the Sudan! Guess I'll go to Greenland!

Safest place I've been, as traveller: Singapore.

And any legend? What exactly each colour means?

Yay, go New Zealand!

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.

I think Africa is the place not to be in 2018

Why does there apear to be a direct correlation between dangerous living and living closer to the equator ?

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

Road safety is high in Africa, yet it is the most dangerous country to go to...? Kinda ironic, isnt it?

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

Are you serious Sweden is coming at second place after South Africa of getting raped.

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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.

Schwaebisch Gmuend, seems pretty safe...I think

North korea's data seems odd in some categories

Why Bulgaria is orange

What are those assessment according to? I think China is quiet safe, I have been here for 16years

Greenland is a safe country with a very low crime rate and we welcome visitors.

I would be interested to see how they came up with these results. For example, if you did it by deaths per square kilometer, somewhere like Canada or Greenland with a low population to country size ratio is going to look safer.

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.