180 countries ranked by safety, peace, freedom and LGBT+ equality
Visiting: Highly RecommendedLGBT+ visiting: Highly Recommended
Liechtenstein is a principality you can walk across in a day, and improbably the world's biggest producer of false teeth. Vaduz Castle looks down from the hillside, the Fürstensteig trail walks the ridgeline, and there's a seriously good modern art museum for somewhere this size. It shares its neighbours' alpine calm and good LGBT+ acceptance. A curious, pretty day trip with a crown on it.
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Liechtenstein: 2.5
Ranked 78th in the world for the lowest homicide rate.
2.51 homicides per 100,000 people in 2024 — a low rate by world standards.
Lower than 58% of the 230 countries and territories measured.
How peaceful the country is — lower is better.
Liechtenstein: 1.2
Ranked 4th most peaceful country in the world.
Not ranked by the Global Peace Index — too small — so 1.17 is our own estimate, built with the index's published 23-indicator methodology.
No armed forces since 1868 and near-zero crime; the score is about as low as the method allows. The same pipeline reconstructs Iceland and Austria to within 0.02 of their official scores.
Personal and economic freedom — higher is better.
Liechtenstein: 9.3
Ranked 1st freest country in the world.
The Human Freedom Index skips microstates, so this 9.34 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 9.75; doing business and owning property, 8.76. 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.
Liechtenstein: 6.9
Ranked 29th most equal in the world for LGBT+ people.
Better for LGBT+ equality than 85% of the 197 countries scored — 69 out of 100.
Law and public attitudes sit close together, at 69 and 68 out of 100.