🇹🇩 Republic of Chad (تشاد)
Visiting: High Risk
The risks in Chad are serious. Same-sex relationships are criminalised, which places it 122nd for LGBT rights, so LGBT travellers should weigh this carefully. Beyond that, nothing ranks well: freedom is tightly restricted, ranking 126th, and violent crime is common, at 138th. Where it lags is the roads, which are among the deadliest anywhere, placed 168th, and women's safety is extremely poor, ranking 166th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Chad: 8.5
Ranked 43rd in the world for the highest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Eight and a half killings per 100,000 people a year is well above the world average, where the risky tier begins.
Is it safe to visit?
A real risk for a visitor. The rate is half as high again as the world average. Chad reports nothing, so we used the WHO's estimate.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Chad: 26.4
Ranked 13th in the world for the deadliest roads.
Why this rank?
Twenty-six deaths per 100,000 people a year is nearly double the world average of fifteen.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe. The rate is three-quarters above the world average.
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.
Chad: 2.87
Ranked 37th most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
97 people died in fighting inside Chad in the year to July 2026, two of them civilians killed on purpose.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe around Lake Chad or along the Sudanese border. N'Djamena is held and calm most of the time.
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.
Chad: 5.16
Ranked 55th least free country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Chad 5 of the six freedoms are rated 1 and the rest higher. Total 7 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
Political life runs through a military family, and protesters have faced violence, imprisonment and torture. A visitor who avoids politics is left alone, but insurgencies in the north and around Lake Chad threaten safety.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Chad: Illegal
Ranked 59th least equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Same-sex acts were criminalised in 2017, with up to two years in prison, reversing decades without any law. Any criminal law is red.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe. There was never a visible community, and the new law pushed an already hidden life further underground.
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.
Chad: 4.42
Ranked 15th least safe country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Only 43 percent of women feel safe out alone at night and the courts rate poorly for women. Partner violence is sixteen percent, and three in four women think wife-beating can be justified.
Is it safe to visit?
For a woman travelling alone, Chad is high risk.