🇵🇪 Republic of Peru (Piruw)
Visiting: High Risk
Take care in Peru: the risks are real. LGBT rights are solid, ranking 54th, and freedom is only partly protected, at 63rd. Where it lags is violent crime, which is common, placed 151st. Road deaths are moderate, women's safety is poor and there is significant exposure to conflict, all ranking between 92nd and 128th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Peru: 10.7
Ranked 30th in the world for the highest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Eleven killings per 100,000 people a year is just over the WHO's epidemic line of ten, where the deadliest countries start.
Is it safe to visit?
Take it seriously. The rate is nearly twice the world average, and rising.
Why we updated the score?
The national crime statistics committee has published its 2025 rate. The UN has carried nothing for Peru since 2021, and its 2021 figure matched the committee's, so we used the committee's newest.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Peru: 12.7
Ranked 89th in the world for the deadliest roads.
Why this rank?
Twelve and a half deaths per 100,000 people a year is just below the world average of fifteen.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable in a car. Below the world average, with a third of the deaths motorcyclists and a quarter people on foot.
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.
Peru: 2.49
Ranked 53rd most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
Five people died in fighting inside Peru in the year to July 2026, three of them civilians killed on purpose.
Is it safe to visit?
Five people died in the year to July 2026, three of them civilians killed by an armed group, in Ica and Junín. Nothing else is recorded.
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.
Peru: 6.87
Ranked 63rd freest country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Peru the lowest are protest and due process at 2. Total 18 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
Established democratic institutions and multiple peaceful handovers. Protest and due process are the low ratings. Corruption scandals and weakened judicial independence are the concerns. Daily life is open.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Peru: 5.3
Ranked 54th most equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Legal with no recognition, because congress blocks every attempt, and a 2024 decree classing trans identity as mental illness was reworded but never annulled. The law index sits at 62, opinion at 44.
Is it safe to visit?
Fine, with discretion. Lima has a substantial scene, but conservatism in politics and church keeps the law frozen.
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.
Peru: 6.64
Ranked 60th least safe country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Only 38 percent of women feel safe out alone at night, and the courts rate below fair. Partner violence is eleven percent, and a few attacks on women were recorded in 2024.
Is it safe to visit?
A woman travelling alone should take care in Peru.