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Safety rankings

Every country and every U.S. state ordered by the same homicide-based score, safest first. The rates are official; the 0–100 score is ours. Statistics, not reviews.

1Ranked safest firstscore is a Costely calculation

68 countries by safety score

#NameScoreHomicides0–100
1Vanuaturate not stored99
2Maltarate not stored96
3Italy0.57per 100k · 202396
4Sloveniarate not stored96
5Switzerland0.60per 100k · 202396
6Irelandrate not stored95
7Croatia0.67per 100k · 202395
8Spain0.69per 100k · 202395
9Netherlands0.69per 100k · 202395
10Hungaryrate not stored94
11Norwayrate not stored94
12Portugal0.72per 100k · 202294
13Czech Republic0.77per 100k · 202394
14Montenegro0.79per 100k · 202393
15Polandrate not stored93
16Cyprus0.82per 100k · 202393
17Denmarkrate not stored93
18Greece0.84per 100k · 202393
19Australiarate not stored93
20Austria0.88per 100k · 202392
21Germany0.91per 100k · 202392
22Micronesia0.91per 100k · 201992
23Finlandrate not stored91
24Belgiumrate not stored90
25Bulgariarate not stored90
26Romania1.11per 100k · 202390
27United Kingdomrate not stored90
28Slovakia1.12per 100k · 202390
29Swedenrate not stored90
30Bosnia and Herzegovinarate not stored89
31Iceland1.29per 100k · 202388
32Serbiarate not stored88
33Francerate not stored88
34Albaniarate not stored88
35New Zealand1.46per 100k · 202287
36Estonia1.54per 100k · 202386
37Luxembourgrate not stored86
38North Macedonia1.53per 100k · 202386
39Canada1.98per 100k · 202383
40Latviarate not stored80
41Lithuaniarate not stored79
42Marshall Islandsrate not stored72
43Argentina4.49per 100k · 202371
44Boliviarate not stored71
45Cuba4.46per 100k · 201971
46United Statesrate not stored67
47Chilerate not stored65
48Suriname6.52per 100k · 202365
49Paraguayrate not stored64
50Kiribati7.12per 100k · 201263
51Perurate not stored60
52Antigua and Barbuda10.72per 100k · 202356
53Dominican Republic10.92per 100k · 202355
54Uruguay11.25per 100k · 202355
55Panamarate not stored54
56Venezuelarate not stored53
57Grenadarate not stored51
58Costa Rica17.75per 100k · 202346
59Brazilrate not stored45
60Guyanarate not stored45
61Colombia24.91per 100k · 202340
62Mexico24.86per 100k · 202340
63Dominica27.06per 100k · 202338
64Bahamasrate not stored35
65Saint Lucia39.04per 100k · 202331
66Ecuadorrate not stored28
67Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesrate not stored26
68Saint Kitts and Nevis64.16per 100k · 202322

Countries: intentional homicide rate per 100,000, UNODC distributed through the World Bank (WDI VC.IHR.PSRC.P5), latest year available per country, CC BY 4.0 — these terms describe the World Bank distribution, not a licence we assign to UNODC data. The score exists for every country listed; the rate column is filled only where our dataset stores the underlying figure, and says so where it does not. U.S. states: FBI Crime Data Explorer, 2024, public domain — note: Reporting to the FBI is voluntary, so agency coverage varies by state and year. The 0–100 score is a Costely calculation — clamp(105 − 20·ln(1 + rate), 0, 100) — and covers intentional homicide only, not any other crime. It is not a World Bank, UNODC or FBI figure, and none of them endorse this site. Country and state scores share one formula but rest on different collections and different years, so the two lists are ranked separately and should not be merged.