🇲🇿 Republic of Mozambique (Moçambique)
Visiting: High Risk
Go carefully in Mozambique. Its best measures are only mid-range: LGBT rights are limited, ranking 69th, and violent crime is moderate, at 91st. Its weak spot is conflict: there is significant exposure, placed 154th. Freedom is tightly restricted, women's safety is poor and the roads are hazardous, with all three ranking between 130th and 141st.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Mozambique: 3.3
Ranked 90th in the world for the highest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Just over three killings per 100,000 people a year is well below the world average but a shade past the three where the low tier ends.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. Below the world average, though the figure is a WHO estimate that matches a count last made in 2011.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Mozambique: 20.1
Ranked 40th in the world for the deadliest roads.
Why this rank?
Twenty deaths per 100,000 people a year is well above the world average of fifteen but short of double it.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe. A third above the world average.
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.
Mozambique: 3.43
Ranked 27th most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
430 people died in fighting inside Mozambique in the year to July 2026, 214 of them civilians killed on purpose.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe in Cabo Delgado, the far-northern province. Maputo and the beaches sit well away from 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.
Mozambique: 4.55
Ranked 51st least free country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Mozambique protest is rated 0, meaning absent. Due process and movement are 2 and 3, so a visitor who keeps the rules is left alone. Total 12 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
One party has ruled since 1994 and protest is rated absent after severe post-election violence in 2024. An Islamist insurgency in Cabo Delgado is the physical danger. Stay away from demonstrations.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Mozambique: 4.8
Ranked 69th most equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Decriminalised in the 2015 penal code. Law and opinion both score around 48 out of 100, which is the top of the middle band.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable, with discretion. Attitudes are notably mild by regional standards, but visibility stays low.
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.
Mozambique: 6.28
Ranked 44th least safe country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Fewer than half of women feel safe out alone at night and the courts rate poorly for women. Partner violence is sixteen percent, and attacks on women were recorded in 2024.
Is it safe to visit?
Take care as a woman travelling alone in Mozambique.