180 countries ranked by safety, peace, freedom and LGBT+ equality
Visiting: Recommend CautionLGBT+ visiting: Recommend Caution
The Pamir Highway is one of the world's great road trips — days of 4,000-metre passes, turquoise lakes and homestays where dinner is whatever the family's having. Tajikistan is rough logistics and warm welcomes in equal measure, and street crime is barely a thing. It's a tightly controlled state, so keep politics out of conversations, and LGBT+ travellers should stay discreet.
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Tajikistan: 0.9
Ranked 32nd in the world for the lowest homicide rate.
0.89 homicides per 100,000 people in 2020 — killings here are genuinely rare.
Lower than 80% of the 230 countries and territories measured.
How peaceful the country is — lower is better.
Tajikistan: 2.0
Ranked 85th least peaceful country in the world.
More peaceful than 52% of the 163 countries ranked, scoring 1.996.
Climbed 10 places since 2024 — one of the year's bigger rises.
Personal and economic freedom — higher is better.
Tajikistan: 5.2
Ranked 39th least free country in the world.
Less free than 82% of the 165 countries measured — 5.26 out of 10.
Day-to-day life (speech, movement, religion) scores 4.49; doing business and owning property, 6.33.
LGBT+ equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Tajikistan: 4.0
Ranked 89th most equal in the world for LGBT+ people.
Better for LGBT+ equality than 52% of the 197 countries scored — 40 out of 100.
The law scores 40 out of 100; no public-opinion data is available.