🇭🇹 Republic of Haiti (Ayiti)
Visiting: Dangerous
The risks in Haiti are serious. Homicide ranks 180th and conflict 167th, both in the bottom twenty, and the roads are extremely deadly, placed 178th. Women's safety is very poor, at 172nd, and freedom is close to absent, placed 168th. Beyond that, only LGBT rights escape the worst of it, ranking 99th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Haiti: 68.8
Ranked 1st in the world for the highest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Sixty-nine killings per 100,000 people a year is nearly seven times the ten that marks the deadliest countries.
Is it safe to visit?
A serious risk for anyone. The rate is nearly twelve times the world average.
Why we updated the score?
The UN's 2024 count is its own mission's tally, and the same mission has published 2025 to November, with 8,100 killed. We've used the newer figure.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Haiti: 31.3
Ranked 3rd in the world for the deadliest roads.
Why this rank?
Thirty-one deaths per 100,000 people a year is just over double the world average of fifteen.
Is it safe to visit?
Among the worst in the world — twice the world average, on the only estimate there is.
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.
Haiti: 4.38
Ranked 14th most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
699 people died in fighting inside Haiti in the year to July 2026, 344 of them civilians killed on purpose. The UN Security Council has sanctions on the country over its conflict.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe in Port-au-Prince or the Artibonite, where the gangs hold the ground and the fighting is. The north, around Cap-Haïtien, is calmer.
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.
Haiti: 0.80
Ranked 13th least free country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Haiti movement is rated 0, meaning absent, so movement is controlled and leaving is not assured. Total 8 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
Movement is rated absent. Armed criminal groups control territory, kidnap for ransom, and killed thousands in 2025, and police also killed more than three thousand people. Not a place to travel.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Haiti: 3.2
Ranked 82nd least equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Never criminalised, with no protections. The law index sits at 52 but public opinion at 11, and that sets the rank.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable only on paper. The gang takeover of the capital has made every marginalised life more dangerous, and the small visible community of the 2010s has scattered.
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.
Haiti: 3.47
Ranked 9th least safe country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Attacks on women were recorded throughout 2024 at a rate few countries match, and the courts are rated near the bottom for women.
Is it safe to visit?
Haiti is high risk for a woman travelling alone.