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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

84 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
23Tongarate not stored92
24Finlandrate not stored91
25Belgiumrate not stored90
26Bulgariarate not stored90
27Romania1.11per 100k · 202390
28United Kingdomrate not stored90
29Slovakia1.12per 100k · 202390
30Swedenrate not stored90
31Bosnia and Herzegovinarate not stored89
32Iceland1.29per 100k · 202388
33Serbiarate not stored88
34Francerate not stored88
35Albaniarate not stored88
36New Zealand1.46per 100k · 202287
37Estonia1.54per 100k · 202386
38Luxembourgrate not stored86
39North Macedonia1.53per 100k · 202386
40Canada1.98per 100k · 202383
41Fijirate not stored83
42Latviarate not stored80
43Lithuaniarate not stored79
44Solomon Islandsrate not stored74
45Marshall Islandsrate not stored72
46Argentina4.49per 100k · 202371
47Boliviarate not stored71
48Cuba4.46per 100k · 201971
49United Statesrate not stored67
50Chilerate not stored65
51Suriname6.52per 100k · 202365
52Samoarate not stored65
53Paraguayrate not stored64
54Kiribati7.12per 100k · 201263
55Barbados7.44per 100k · 202362
56El Salvadorrate not stored61
57Perurate not stored60
58Papua New Guinearate not stored58
59Antigua and Barbuda10.72per 100k · 202356
60Dominican Republic10.92per 100k · 202355
61Nicaragua11.35per 100k · 202155
62Palaurate not stored55
63Uruguay11.25per 100k · 202355
64Panamarate not stored54
65Venezuelarate not stored53
66Grenadarate not stored51
67Costa Rica17.75per 100k · 202346
68Tuvalurate not stored46
69Brazilrate not stored45
70Guyanarate not stored45
71Guatemala23.37per 100k · 202341
72Colombia24.91per 100k · 202340
73Mexico24.86per 100k · 202340
74Belize28.06per 100k · 202238
75Dominica27.06per 100k · 202338
76Bahamasrate not stored35
77Honduras31.44per 100k · 202335
78Saint Lucia39.04per 100k · 202331
79Haitirate not stored30
80Trinidad and Tobagorate not stored30
81Ecuadorrate not stored28
82Jamaica49.44per 100k · 202327
83Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesrate not stored26
84Saint 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.