🇲🇳 Mongolia (Монгол Улс)
Visiting: ReasonableWomen visiting: Take care
On the whole Mongolia is safe, with a couple of points to weigh. There is no conflict at all, ranking 1st, and freedom is well protected, at 37th. Where it lags is women's safety, which is poor, placed 128th. LGBT rights are limited, road deaths are moderate and violent crime sits mid-range, with all three ranking between 87th and 115th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Mongolia: 5.3
Ranked 66th in the world for the highest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Just over five killings per 100,000 people a year is a touch under the world average of 5.8, which is where the risky tier begins.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. The rate sits just below the world average, and a fifth of 2024's killings were by strangers.
Why we updated the score?
Mongolia's statistics office has 2025 out, with 186 killings against 196 the year before. The UN takes its figure from that office, so we've used the new count.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Mongolia: 12.4
Ranked 89th in the world for the safest roads.
Why this rank?
Twelve deaths per 100,000 people a year is just below the world average of fifteen.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. Below the world average, and a third of those who die are on foot.
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.
Mongolia: 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 Mongolia since its records began in 1989.
Is it safe to visit?
Safe. Peaceful in every direction, with no conflict at home and hard work at friendship with both enormous neighbours.
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.
Mongolia: 8.39
Ranked 37th freest country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Mongolia the lowest are speech, press and due process at 3. Total 21 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
An electoral democracy since 1990 where political rights and civil liberties are generally respected. Corruption is widespread, which is the one thing a visitor might notice.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Mongolia: 3.9
Ranked 87th most equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Legal since 2002 with hate-crime protections added in 2017, unusual for the region. The law index sits at 60 but public opinion at 17, and that gap sets the rank.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable, with discretion. A small, young scene in Ulaanbaatar with real legal backing and slowly warming attitudes.
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.
Mongolia: 6.50
Ranked 53rd least safe country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
No attacks on women are recorded and the courts rate fairly. Fewer than half of women feel safe out alone at night, and 63 percent think wife-beating can be justified.
Is it safe to visit?
A woman travelling alone should take care when visiting Mongolia.