🇦🇷 Argentine Republic
Visiting: Reasonable
You can visit Argentina safely. There is no conflict at all, ranking 1st, and LGBT rights are among the very strongest, placed 18th. The one area that slips is violent crime, which is moderate, placed 98th. Freedom is well protected, ranking 37th, road deaths are low, at 59th, and women's safety is fair, placed 78th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Argentina: 3.8
Ranked 83rd in the world for the highest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Nearly four killings per 100,000 people a year is below the world average but past the three where the low tier ends.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. Below the world average, and a quarter of killings are by strangers.
Why we updated the score?
The national crime statistics system has published its 2025 rate. The UN takes its figure from that system a year later, so we used the new rate.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Argentina: 9.1
Ranked 59th in the world for the safest roads.
Why this rank?
Nine deaths per 100,000 people a year is under the world average of fifteen but past half of it.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable in a car. Below the world average, and nearly half the deaths are motorcyclists.
Why we updated the score?
The WHO's 2021 figure was Argentina's own count. The road-safety agency has published a preliminary 2025 count, 4,060 deaths, so we've used it.
Conflict — world number one
Conflict deaths inside the country in the last twelve months, as recorded by the Uppsala conflict database, civilians killed on purpose, and any UN sanctions or court order over a war. The worst of those sets the colour. Lower is better.
Argentina: 1.00
Ranked 1st least conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
Nothing on record. The Uppsala conflict database has never recorded a conflict death in Argentina since its records began in 1989.
Is it safe to visit?
Safe. Nothing in five years where the state was fighting. The Rosario gang killings are a crime story, counted under Homicide.
Freedom
Six freedoms rated 0–4 by Freedom House — protest, speech, press, religion, movement and due process. The weakest rating sets the colour, and the total places the country inside it — higher is better.
Argentina: 8.39
Ranked 37th freest country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Argentina the lowest are protest, press and due process at 3. Total 21 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
A vibrant democracy with lively media and unfettered public debate. Four freedoms are one step from the top. Economic instability and drug-related violence are the serious challenges.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Argentina: 7.5
Ranked 18th most equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Marriage since 2010, Latin America's first, and the 2012 gender-identity law set the world standard for self-ID. The law index scores 89, public opinion 61.
Is it safe to visit?
Fine. Buenos Aires has a large and open LGBT scene, and the government's hostile rhetoric has not yet touched the laws.
Women's Safety
Women's safety — feeling safe out at night, political violence against women, a fair hearing in court, and how normal violence at home is, with the night figure setting a floor on the colour — higher is better.
Argentina: 7.45
Ranked 78th safest country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Partner violence is under five percent and almost no attacks on women are recorded. Only 41 percent of women feel safe out alone at night, and the courts rate fairly.
Is it safe to visit?
For a woman travelling alone, Argentina is a reasonable choice.