🇪🇬 Arab Republic of Egypt (مصر)
Visiting: Risky
Visiting Egypt means accepting real risks. Same-sex relationships are criminalised, which places it 122nd for LGBT rights, so LGBT travellers should weigh this carefully. Nothing ranks highly here: road deaths are moderate, ranking 63rd, and women's safety is fair, at 76th. Its weakest measure is freedom, which is tightly restricted, placed 159th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Egypt: 4.2
Ranked 78th in the world for the highest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Four killings per 100,000 people a year is below the world average but above the three where the low tier ends, so it lands in the middle.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. Below the world average, though Egypt hasn't reported a count since 2017 and we used the WHO's estimate.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Egypt: 9.4
Ranked 63rd 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. Below the world average, and a quarter of the deaths are people on foot.
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.
Egypt: 2.08
Ranked 72nd most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
No conflict death is recorded in Egypt in the year to July 2026. The last was in July 2025, inside the last five years.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. The pressure is at the borders, and none of it reaches the Nile valley, the coast or the resorts.
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.
Egypt: 2.21
Ranked 22nd least free country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Egypt due process is rated 0, meaning absent, so the courts offer no protection if anything goes wrong. Total 3 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
Courts offer no protection. Dissent draws prosecution and imprisonment, protest and press are tightly restricted, and security forces abuse rights with impunity. Any brush with the authorities is serious.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Egypt: Illegal
Ranked 59th least equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
No explicit ban, but debauchery laws are used systematically, with police entrapping men through dating apps. It counts as criminalised, and that is red.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe. The 2017 arrests over a rainbow flag at a concert showed the stakes. Dating apps are police bait, and visibility is effectively a crime.
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.
Egypt: 7.48
Ranked 76th safest country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Seventy-six percent of women feel safe out alone at night and no attacks on women are recorded. The courts rate below fair, and partner violence in the past year is fifteen percent.
Is it safe to visit?
Egypt is a reasonable choice for a woman travelling alone.