🇸🇩 Republic of the Sudan (السودان)
Visiting: Dangerous
Sudan presents serious risks to any visitor. Same-sex relationships are criminalised, with penalties up to life imprisonment, which places it 162nd for LGBT rights, so LGBT travellers should weigh this carefully. Conflict is the main concern: it ranks 180th, in the bottom twenty, and freedom is close to absent, placed 169th, and women's safety is extremely poor, ranking 164th. Violent crime is moderate, ranking 115th, though the roads are hazardous, at 140th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Sudan: 5.3
Ranked 66th in the world for the highest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Just over five killings per 100,000 people a year is a touch under the world average of 5.8, which is where the risky tier begins.
Is it safe to visit?
The war is the risk here — the Conflict score is what matters. The homicide figure is a WHO estimate made before the war, and no count exists.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Sudan: 19.6
Ranked 41st in the world for the deadliest roads.
Why this rank?
Nearly twenty 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. The rate was high before the war.
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.
Sudan: 5.00
Ranked 1st most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
68,039 people died in fighting inside Sudan in the year to July 2026, 60,902 of them civilians killed on purpose. The UN Security Council has sanctions on the country over its conflict.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe anywhere. The front is in Kordofan and Darfur, hundreds of thousands are dead and eleven million displaced.
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.
Sudan: 0.30
Ranked 12th least free country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Sudan due process and movement are rated 0, meaning absent, so the courts offer no protection and movement is controlled. Total 3 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
A civil war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, with mass killing and displacement. No courts, no safe movement, and atrocities against civilians. Do not travel.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Sudan: Life
Ranked 19th least equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
The death penalty for same-sex acts was removed in 2020, leaving prison terms up to life for repeat convictions. Any criminal law is red.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe. The reform changed little on the ground, and since the war began survival crowds out everything.
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.
Sudan: 4.73
Ranked 17th least safe country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Attacks on women were recorded throughout 2024, the courts rate poorly, and partner violence is seventeen percent.
Is it safe to visit?
Sudan is a high-risk destination for a woman travelling alone.