180 countries ranked by safety, peace, freedom and LGBT+ equality
Visiting: Recommend CautionLGBT+ visiting: Not Recommended
Bethlehem, Hebron's craft workshops, Ramallah's café culture — Palestine offers depth of history and hospitality that visitors rarely forget, among olive groves a thousand years old. Everyday street crime is remarkably low; the conflict is the risk, and it shapes everything, so travel only informed and current. Homosexuality is illegal in Gaza and acceptance is low generally — not one for LGBT+ travellers.
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Palestine: 0.3
Ranked 8th in the world for the lowest homicide rate.
0.27 homicides per 100,000 people in 2024 — killings here are genuinely rare.
Lower than 94% of the 230 countries and territories measured.
How peaceful the country is — lower is better.
Palestine: 2.8
Ranked 19th least peaceful country in the world.
More peaceful than 11% of the 163 countries ranked, scoring 2.811.
Barely moved — up one place since 2024.
Personal and economic freedom — higher is better.
Palestine: 5.4
Ranked 46th least free country in the world.
The Human Freedom Index doesn't cover Palestine, so this 5.36 is our own estimate — built with the index's published method: the same 12 categories of personal and economic freedom, equally weighted. Like the official index it uses 2023 data, so the security score carries the first months of the Gaza war.
Day-to-day life (speech, movement, religion) scores 4.62; doing business and owning property, 6.41. 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.
Palestine: Illegal
Ranked 55th least equal in the world for LGBT+ people.
Homosexuality is criminalised here, with a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment.
Public attitudes score 8 out of 100 — the law and public opinion are not the same thing.