🇹🇳 Republic of Tunisia (تونس)
Visiting: Take careLGBT visiting: High Risk
The risks in Tunisia are real. Same-sex relationships are criminalised, which places it 122nd for LGBT rights, so LGBT travellers should weigh this carefully. Nothing ranks highly here: women's safety is fair, at 69th, and freedom is only partly protected, placed 98th. Violent crime is moderate, there is some exposure to conflict and road deaths sit mid-range, with all three ranking between 109th and 118th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Tunisia: 4.7
Ranked 72nd in the world for the highest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Nearly five killings per 100,000 people a year is just under the world average and above the three that ends the low tier.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. Just below the world average, on Tunisia's own count for 2020 — the newest published.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Tunisia: 16.3
Ranked 63rd 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 on a scooter or on foot, which is six in ten of the deaths. Driven, a visitor is mostly out of it.
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.
Tunisia: 2.21
Ranked 66th most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
Five people died in fighting inside Tunisia in the year to July 2026, none of them civilians killed on purpose. The last was in January 2026, and none since.
Is it safe to visit?
Five people died in fighting with an armed group in the mountains by the Algerian border in the year to July 2026. The coast and the cities are far from it.
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.
Tunisia: 5.93
Ranked 83rd least free country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Tunisia the lowest are press and due process at 1. Total 12 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
Since 2021 the president has dismissed the legislature and prosecuted opponents in mass trials with heavy sentences. Journalists face jail for critical commentary. A visitor who avoids politics is left alone.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Tunisia: Illegal
Ranked 59th least equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Article 230 sets three years for same-sex acts, and courts still order forced anal examinations despite promises to end them. Any criminal law is red.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe to be open. The Arab world's most visible activism lives here regardless, under constant legal threat.
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.
Tunisia: 7.62
Ranked 69th safest country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
The courts rate well and no attacks on women are recorded. Fifty-five percent of women feel safe out alone at night, and three in ten think wife-beating can be justified.
Is it safe to visit?
Tunisia is reasonable for a woman travelling alone.