🇱🇺 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg)
Visiting: Safe
Luxembourg is very safe. There is no conflict at all and freedom is as good as it gets, both ranking 1st. Its weakest measure is still inside the top third: violent crime is rare, the 53rd-lowest homicide rate. Women's safety is among the very best, road deaths are low and LGBT rights are solid, all ranking between 2nd and 32nd.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Luxembourg: 1.5
Ranked 53rd in the world for the lowest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
One and a half killings per 100,000 people a year is low. The safest countries sit under one, and Luxembourg is a shade above.
Is it safe to visit?
As safe as it gets for a visitor. Even its newest count, from 2022, was a spike from almost nothing.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Luxembourg: 4.4
Ranked 23rd in the world for the safest roads.
Why this rank?
Under four and a half deaths per 100,000 people a year is a whisker under the EU average of four and a half.
Is it safe to visit?
Safe.
Why we updated the score?
The WHO's 2021 figure was Luxembourg's own count. The statistics office has published 2025, a few more cases on very small numbers, so we've used the newer count.
Conflict — world number one
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.
Luxembourg: 1.00
Ranked 1st least conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
Nothing on record. The Uppsala conflict database has never recorded a conflict death in Luxembourg since its records began in 1989.
Is it safe to visit?
Nothing to think about. Nothing has come near it since 1945.
Freedom — world number one
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.
Luxembourg: 10.00
Ranked 1st freest country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Luxembourg every one of the six freedoms scores the full 4. Total 24 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
All six freedoms fully respected in a constitutional monarchy with an elected government. Nothing here touches a visitor.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Luxembourg: 6.7
Ranked 32nd most equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Marriage and adoption have been legal since 2015, under Europe's first openly gay prime minister to marry in office. The law index scores 82, public opinion 52.
Is it safe to visit?
Fine. It is a small, wealthy country, thoroughly relaxed about the whole thing.
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.
Luxembourg: 9.91
Ranked 2nd safest country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Eighty-six percent of women feel safe out alone at night, the courts rate near perfect, and violence at home is rare.
Is it safe to visit?
Luxembourg is one of the safest places for a woman travelling alone.