🇲🇪 Montenegro (Crna Gora)
Visiting: Reasonable
For a visitor, Montenegro is safe. There is no conflict at all, ranking 1st, and women's safety is good, at 37th. The one area that slips is the roads, where deaths are moderate, placed 78th, though that is still inside the top half. LGBT rights are solid, freedom is only partly protected and violent crime is not a major problem, all ranking between 47th and 78th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Montenegro: 2.5
Ranked 78th in the world for the lowest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Two and a half killings per 100,000 people a year is low but a step above the one where the safest countries sit.
Is it safe to visit?
Fine for a visitor. Strangers are almost never involved.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Montenegro: 11.1
Ranked 78th in the world for the safest roads.
Why this rank?
Eleven deaths per 100,000 people a year is under the world average of fifteen but past half of it.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. Below the world average, and nearly a fifth of the deaths are motorbike riders.
Why we updated the score?
The WHO's 2021 figure was Montenegro's own count. The police have published 2025, with 67 deaths, 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.
Montenegro: 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 Montenegro since its records began in 1989.
Is it safe to visit?
Safe. Nothing armed anywhere near it.
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.
Montenegro: 6.71
Ranked 68th freest country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Montenegro the lowest is due process at 2. Total 17 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
Dynamic media and civil society, with power changing hands at elections since 2020. Due process is the low rating. Corruption and dysfunction persist in politics and the courts. Daily life is open.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Montenegro: 5.6
Ranked 47th most equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Life partnerships have been available since 2021, the first in the non-EU Balkans. The law index scores 76 but public opinion 35, and that gap sets the rank.
Is it safe to visit?
Fine, with discretion. Podgorica Pride has settled into normality under police protection. Deep conservatism persists outside the capital.
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.
Montenegro: 8.27
Ranked 37th safest country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Eighty-five percent of women feel safe out alone at night and violence at home is rare. A fair court rating holds the score.
Is it safe to visit?
Montenegro is safe for a woman travelling alone.