🇹🇿 United Republic of Tanzania
Visiting: Dangerous
Tanzania carries real risks. 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 169th, in the bottom twenty. Nothing ranks highly here: violent crime is moderate, ranking 91st, and road deaths sit mid-range, at 114th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Tanzania: 3.3
Ranked 90th in the world for the highest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Just over three killings per 100,000 people a year is well below the world average but a shade past the three where the low tier ends.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. Below the world average, on Tanzania's own police count of 2,263 killings for 2024.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Tanzania: 15.8
Ranked 67th in the world for the deadliest roads.
Why this rank?
Sixteen deaths per 100,000 people a year is just above the world average of fifteen.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe. Half the deaths are people in vehicles, with motorbikes and walking making up the rest.
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.
Tanzania: 4.48
Ranked 12th most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
1,007 people died in fighting inside Tanzania in the year to July 2026, all of them civilians killed on purpose.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe when politics turns violent. The security forces killed 1,007 people after the October 2025 election, in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza and elsewhere. Nothing is recorded since February 2026.
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.
Tanzania: 4.28
Ranked 46th least free country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Tanzania protest is rated 0, meaning absent. Due process and movement are 1 and 2, so a visitor who keeps the rules is left alone. Total 7 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
Protest is rated absent after the October 2025 election, when hundreds were killed in a crackdown and hundreds more detained. Stay far from any demonstration. Otherwise a visitor is left alone.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Tanzania: Life
Ranked 19th least equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Sex between men carries up to life imprisonment, among the harshest sentences on earth, with active enforcement waves. Red by law.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe. The 2018 and 2019 crackdowns, complete with official outing campaigns, drove the community deep underground and aid groups out.
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.
Tanzania: 6.61
Ranked 59th least safe country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Sixty percent of women feel safe out alone at night and the courts rate fairly. At home, partner violence hits one in four and six in ten think wife-beating can be justified.
Is it safe to visit?
A woman travelling alone should take care when visiting Tanzania.