180 countries ranked by safety, peace, freedom and LGBT+ equality
Visiting: Highly RecommendedLGBT+ visiting: Highly Recommended
Andorra has no airport and no army — you just drive up into the Pyrenees from France or Spain and there it is. Come in winter for Grandvalira's slopes, in summer for hiking the UNESCO-listed Madriu valley, and any time for the giant thermal lagoons of Caldea. It's tranquil to the point of sleepy, tax-free shopping aside, and one of the most LGBT+ friendly places anywhere.
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Andorra: 2.6
Ranked 83rd in the world for the lowest homicide rate.
2.58 homicides per 100,000 people in 2020 — a low rate by world standards.
Lower than 57% of the 230 countries and territories measured.
How peaceful the country is — lower is better.
Andorra: 1.1
Ranked 3rd most peaceful country in the world.
The Global Peace Index leaves out microstates, so we estimated Andorra ourselves with the GPI's published method — its 23 indicators, weights and scoring bands: 1.15.
No army, negligible crime and no conflict of any kind — only routine policing keeps the number off the index floor.
Personal and economic freedom — higher is better.
Andorra: 9.1
Ranked 2nd freest country in the world.
The Human Freedom Index skips microstates, so this 9.08 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 9.58; doing business and owning property, 8.38. 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.
Andorra: 8.0
Ranked 7th most equal in the world for LGBT+ people.
One of the ten best countries on Earth for LGBT+ equality — scoring 80 out of 100.
The law runs ahead of public opinion here — legal protections score 86 out of 100, everyday attitudes 74.