🇹🇯 Republic of Tajikistan (Тоҷикистон)
Visiting: Risky
Take care in Tajikistan: the risks are real. Violent crime is rare, the 33rd-lowest homicide rate, and LGBT rights are limited, at 85th. Its weakest measure is freedom, which is close to absent, placed 166th. There is some exposure to conflict, road deaths are moderate and women's safety is poor, all ranking between 96th and 134th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Tajikistan: 0.9
Ranked 33rd in the world for the lowest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Just under one killing per 100,000 people a year is only just inside the line that marks the safest countries.
Is it safe to visit?
Safe for a visitor. Strangers are almost never involved.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Tajikistan: 13.9
Ranked 77th in the world for the deadliest roads.
Why this rank?
Nearly fourteen 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, though the figure is only an estimate.
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.
Tajikistan: 1.83
Ranked 85th most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
No conflict death is recorded in Tajikistan in the year to July 2026. The last was in September 2022, inside the last five years.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. Nothing is recorded since the border clashes with Kyrgyzstan in September 2022. Dushanbe and the Pamirs are far from that border.
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.
Tajikistan: 2.00
Ranked 15th least free country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Tajikistan due process is rated 0, meaning absent, so the courts offer no protection if anything goes wrong. Total 1 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
One president since 1992, with the opposition and independent media devastated by repression and religious activity tightly controlled. Courts offer no protection.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Tajikistan: 4.0
Ranked 85th most equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Same-sex acts have been legal since 1998 on paper. The law index sits at 40 and there is no opinion survey, so the law alone sets the rank.
Is it safe to visit?
Take care. Police keep registries of suspected gay citizens and extort them. Legal means little in practice.
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.
Tajikistan: 6.35
Ranked 47th least safe country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Ninety-three percent of women feel safe out alone at night, nearly the highest share recorded. The courts are rated near the bottom, and three in four women think wife-beating can be justified.
Is it safe to visit?
Take care as a woman travelling alone in Tajikistan.