180 countries ranked by safety, peace, freedom and LGBT+ equality
Visiting: Not RecommendedLGBT+ visiting: Not Recommended
Africa's only Spanish-speaking country is also one of its least visited, thanks mostly to a famously difficult visa. Get through the paperwork and there are black-sand beaches and nesting turtles on Bioko, proper untouched rainforest at Monte Alén, and barely another tourist in sight. Crime is genuinely low. It's a tightly controlled state, so keep your nose clean and your paperwork handy.
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Equatorial Guinea: 2.6
Ranked 83rd in the world for the lowest homicide rate.
An estimated 2.62 homicides per 100,000 people — a low rate by world standards. The 2021 estimate is the freshest figure that exists.
Lower than 56% of the 230 countries and territories measured.
How peaceful the country is — lower is better.
Equatorial Guinea: 2.0
Ranked 82nd least peaceful country in the world.
More peaceful than 50% of the 163 countries ranked, scoring 2.004.
Climbed 15 places since 2024 — one of the year's bigger rises.
Personal and economic freedom — higher is better.
Equatorial Guinea: 4.7
Ranked 19th least free country in the world.
The Human Freedom Index needs economic data Equatorial Guinea doesn't publish, so this 4.67 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 4.69; doing business and owning property, 4.64. 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.
Equatorial Guinea: 3.8
Ranked 89th least equal in the world for LGBT+ people.
Ranks behind 50% of the 197 countries scored for LGBT+ equality — 38 out of 100.
The law scores 38 out of 100; no public-opinion data is available.