🇰🇭 Kingdom of Cambodia (កម្ពុជា)
Visiting: Take care
Go carefully in Cambodia. Violent crime is rare, the 57th-lowest homicide rate, and LGBT rights are limited, at 69th. Its weak spot is women's safety, which is poor, placed 145th. There is some exposure to conflict, freedom is tightly restricted and the roads are hazardous, all ranking between 118th and 136th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Cambodia: 1.8
Ranked 57th in the world for the lowest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Under two killings per 100,000 people a year is low. The safest countries sit under one, and Cambodia is a shade above.
Is it safe to visit?
Fine for a visitor. The rate is well below the world average, on a WHO estimate that matches Cambodia's last count from 2011.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Cambodia: 18.8
Ranked 45th in the world for the deadliest roads.
Why this rank?
Nearly nineteen deaths per 100,000 people a year is above the world average of fifteen, though well short of double it.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe on a motorbike, which is three-quarters of the deaths. In a car or tuk-tuk a visitor is mostly out of it.
Conflict
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.
Cambodia: 2.29
Ranked 63rd most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
128 people died in fighting inside Cambodia in the year to July 2026, none of them civilians killed on purpose. The last was in December 2025, and none since.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. The 2025 border war with Thailand killed 128 people on Cambodia's side. Nothing is recorded since December 2025.
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.
Cambodia: 4.33
Ranked 49th least free country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Cambodia press is rated 0, meaning absent. Due process and movement are 1 and 2, so a visitor who keeps the rules is left alone. Total 8 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
Power passed from father to son in 2023, and the opposition, independent media and civil society face prosecution and violence. Press is rated absent. Say nothing political.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Cambodia: 4.8
Ranked 69th most equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Never criminalised, with no recognition. Law and opinion both score around 48 out of 100, the top of the middle band.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. Notably relaxed at street level, Pride happens in Phnom Penh, and family pressure is the main constraint.
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.
Cambodia: 6.12
Ranked 36th least safe country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
No attacks on women are recorded and partner violence is nine percent. The courts are rated near the bottom for women, and nearly half of women think wife-beating can be justified.
Is it safe to visit?
Take care as a woman travelling alone in Cambodia.