180 countries ranked by safety, peace, freedom and LGBT+ equality
Visiting: Top RecommendationLGBT+ visiting: Highly Recommended
Monaco is smaller than Central Park and richer than almost anywhere, and it's very happy to show you: the belle-époque casino, superyachts stacked like supermarket trolleys, and the Grand Prix circuit you can simply walk. Crime is effectively zero. Visit on a day trip from Nice, splurge on one drink at the Café de Paris, and let someone else pay the hotel bill.
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Monaco: 0.0
Ranked 1st in the world for the lowest homicide rate.
Effectively zero homicides in a typical year.
With roughly 38,000 residents, a single case would move the rate by about 2.6 — too small a population for a stable annual rate.
How peaceful the country is — lower is better.
Monaco: 1.2
Ranked 5th most peaceful country in the world.
The GPI skips microstates, so this 1.22 is our estimate using its published methodology and scoring bands.
Zero homicides and no military — what keeps Monaco off the floor is having Europe's densest police presence, which the index counts against peacefulness.
Personal and economic freedom — higher is better.
Monaco: 9.1
Ranked 2nd freest country in the world.
The Human Freedom Index skips microstates, so this 9.05 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 9.67; doing business and owning property, 8.18. 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.
Monaco: 5.3
Ranked 55th most equal in the world for LGBT+ people.
Better for LGBT+ equality than 71% of the 197 countries scored — 53 out of 100.
Law and public attitudes sit close together, at 56 and 51 out of 100.