🇸🇷 Republic of Suriname
Visiting: Reasonable
With a few caveats, Suriname is a safe place to visit. There is no conflict at all, ranking 1st, and women's safety is good, at 35th. The one area that slips is violent crime, which is moderate, placed 105th. Freedom is well protected, LGBT rights are limited and road deaths are neither a strength nor a worry, all ranking between 56th and 94th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Suriname: 4.3
Ranked 76th in the world for the highest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Just over four killings per 100,000 people a year is below the world average but above the three where the low tier ends.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. Below the world average, on a few dozen cases a year — 27 killings in 2024, five by strangers.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Suriname: 12.8
Ranked 87th in the world for the deadliest roads.
Why this rank?
Nearly thirteen deaths per 100,000 people a year is just below the world average of fifteen.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. Below the world average, and the counts are small.
Why we updated the score?
The WHO's 2021 figure was Suriname's own police count. The police have published 2024, with 78 deaths, down from 96, so we've used the newer count and the rate drops a band.
Conflict — world number one
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.
Suriname: 1.00
Ranked 1st least conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
Nothing on record. The Uppsala conflict database has never recorded a conflict death in Suriname since its records began in 1989.
Is it safe to visit?
Safe. Nothing armed anywhere in the country.
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.
Suriname: 7.18
Ranked 56th freest country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Suriname the lowest is due process at 2. Total 20 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
A constitutional democracy with generally free and fair elections. Due process is the low rating. Corruption and clientelism undermine the rule of law. Daily life is open.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Suriname: 4.1
Ranked 84th most equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Legal since 1869, with a hate-speech protection added in 2015 but no recognition. The law index sits at 60 but public opinion at 23, and that gap sets the rank.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable, with discretion. Small-country discretion prevails, and Paramaribo holds modest Pride events.
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.
Suriname: 8.32
Ranked 35th safest country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
The courts rate well for women and violence at home is low. The index's street estimate is what holds it back.
Is it safe to visit?
For a woman travelling alone, Suriname is safe.