180 countries ranked by safety, peace, freedom and LGBT+ equality
Visiting: Not RecommendedLGBT+ visiting: Not Recommended
Djenné's Great Mosque is the largest mud building on earth, Timbuktu is an actual place and not just a saying, and Mali's desert blues fills festival stages worldwide. It's heartbreaking, then, that the country is effectively off-limits — insurgency covers much of it and every foreign office says don't go. Listen to the music at home for now and hope the good days come back.
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Mali: 10.0
Ranked 31st in the world for the highest homicide rate.
An estimated 10.04 homicides per 100,000 people — a high rate by any standard. The 2021 estimate is the freshest figure that exists.
Higher than 80% of the 230 countries and territories measured.
How peaceful the country is — lower is better.
Mali: 3.1
Ranked 10th least peaceful country in the world.
Among the ten least peaceful countries ranked — 154th of 163, scoring 3.061.
Barely moved — down one place since 2024.
Personal and economic freedom — higher is better.
Mali: 5.5
Ranked 49th least free country in the world.
Less free than 76% of the 165 countries measured — 5.58 out of 10.
Day-to-day life (speech, movement, religion) scores 5.43; doing business and owning property, 5.80.
LGBT+ equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Mali: 0.8
Ranked 57th least equal in the world for LGBT+ people.
Ranks behind 94% of the 197 countries scored for LGBT+ equality — 8 out of 100.
Law and public attitudes sit close together, at 6 and 9 out of 100.