🇲🇦 Kingdom of Morocco (المغرب)
Visiting: Take careLGBT visiting: High Risk
There are real risks in Morocco. Same-sex relationships are criminalised, which places it 122nd for LGBT rights, so LGBT travellers should weigh this carefully. Even so, violent crime is rare, the 56th-lowest homicide rate, and women's safety is fair, at 81st. Its weakest measure is the roads, which are hazardous, placed 134th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Morocco: 1.7
Ranked 56th in the world for the lowest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Under two killings per 100,000 people a year is low. The safest countries sit under one, and Morocco is a shade above.
Is it safe to visit?
Safe for a visitor. A rate well below the world average.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Morocco: 18.6
Ranked 47th in the world for the deadliest roads.
Why this rank?
Nearly nineteen deaths per 100,000 people a year is above the world average of fifteen, though well short of double it.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe on a scooter or on foot, which is where most of the deaths are. Driven, a visitor is mostly out of it.
Conflict
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.
Morocco: 2.35
Ranked 60th most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
Three people died in fighting inside Morocco in the year to July 2026, none of them civilians killed on purpose.
Is it safe to visit?
Three people died in the Western Sahara conflict in the desert of the far south in the year to July 2026. Nothing reaches the cities or the coast.
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.
Morocco: 5.47
Ranked 66th least free country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Morocco the lowest are protest, press and due process at 1. Total 9 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
Regular elections, but the king and his palace hold full dominance and many civil liberties are constrained in practice. Protest, press and the courts are the low ratings. Stay out of politics.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Morocco: Illegal
Ranked 59th least equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Same-sex acts carry up to three years under Article 489, with regular prosecutions. Any criminal law is red.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe to be open. Outings and arrests recur, including social-media outing waves, though the big cities hold discreet, well-established scenes.
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.
Morocco: 7.40
Ranked 81st safest country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
The courts rate fairly and no attacks on women are recorded. Fifty-seven percent of women feel safe out alone at night, and half say a husband can sometimes be justified in beating his wife.
Is it safe to visit?
For a woman travelling alone, Morocco is a reasonable choice.