🇻🇪 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Visiting: High Risk
Venezuela is not a place to visit without care. LGBT rights are solid, ranking 54th, and road deaths are moderate, at 95th. Its weakest measure is violent crime, which is common, placed 160th. There is significant exposure to conflict, women's safety is poor and freedom is tightly restricted, with all three ranking between 146th and 152nd.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Venezuela: 13.8
Ranked 21st in the world for the highest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Nearly fourteen killings per 100,000 people a year is well past the WHO's epidemic line of ten, where the deadliest countries start.
Is it safe to visit?
Take it seriously. The rate is more than twice the world average, on the UN's 2023 figure — the government's newer claims come with nothing published behind them.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Venezuela: 13.2
Ranked 86th in the world for the deadliest roads.
Why this rank?
Thirteen deaths per 100,000 people a year is just below the world average of fifteen.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable on the estimate. Below the world average.
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.
Venezuela: 2.92
Ranked 35th most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
101 people died in fighting inside Venezuela in the year to July 2026, two of them civilians killed on purpose.
Is it safe to visit?
Take it seriously. US strikes continue offshore, the Colombian border is armed-group territory, and the political situation can turn fast.
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.
Venezuela: 2.52
Ranked 29th least free country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Venezuela due process is rated 0, meaning absent, so the courts offer no protection if anything goes wrong. Total 6 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
Courts offer no protection. Perceived opponents face arbitrary detention, extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances, over nine hundred political prisoners remained at the end of 2025, and elections are neither free nor fair.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Venezuela: 5.3
Ranked 54th most equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Same-sex acts have been legal since 1997 in civilian law and 2023 in the military code, with no recognition and no protections. Law and opinion both score in the low fifties.
Is it safe to visit?
Fine, with discretion. The crisis dominates everything, and what scene exists in Caracas survives on resilience, not rights.
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.
Venezuela: 6.09
Ranked 34th least safe country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Half of women feel safe out alone at night and partner violence is nine percent. The courts are rated near the bottom for women, and attacks on women were recorded in 2024.
Is it safe to visit?
Take care as a woman travelling alone in Venezuela.