180 countries ranked by safety, peace, freedom and LGBT+ equality
Visiting: Not RecommendedLGBT+ visiting: Not Recommended
Few countries have more to show a traveller than Afghanistan — the sapphire lakes of Band-e-Amir, the high Wakhan Corridor, Herat's Friday Mosque. And few are further out of reach. Under Taliban rule the danger is extreme, women travellers face severe restrictions, and homosexuality can carry the death penalty. Nobody should be booking this trip right now. Keep the photos saved for a very different future.
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Afghanistan: 4.2
Ranked 79th in the world for the highest homicide rate.
4.22 homicides per 100,000 people in 2023 — a moderate rate by world standards.
Higher than 55% of the 230 countries and territories measured.
How peaceful the country is — lower is better.
Afghanistan: 3.2
Ranked 6th least peaceful country in the world.
Among the ten least peaceful countries ranked — 158th of 163, scoring 3.229.
Up 2 places since 2024.
Personal and economic freedom — higher is better.
Afghanistan: 3.3
Ranked 4th least free country in the world.
The Human Freedom Index needs economic data Afghanistan doesn't publish, so this 3.28 is our own estimate — built with the index's published method: the same 12 categories of personal and economic freedom, equally weighted.
Day-to-day life (speech, movement, religion) scores 2.41; doing business and owning property, 4.49. Scored from the index's own underlying sources — V-Dem, Freedom House, UNODC, CPJ and World Bank data.
LGBT+ equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Afghanistan: Death
Ranked 11th least equal in the world for LGBT+ people.
Homosexuality is criminalised here, with a maximum penalty of death penalty.
Public attitudes score 2 out of 100 — the law and public opinion are not the same thing.