This Map Reveals the World's Most and Least Dangerous Countries

Are countries that are generally considered to be dangerous really not suitable to visit? How safe is your home country, and places that you’ve visited before? It can be difficult to discern how safe places are with alarmist news stories breaking every other hour.

A new interactive map created by International SOS and control risks that shows the security, medical and road safety of every country in the world has been created to help you figure out where’s safe to travel.

The countries that are considered to be low-risk to travel in are Finland, Norway and Iceland, which have the lowest rankings for all three categories.

Security risks in Greenland, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Switzerland are shown to be ‘insignificant’ and ‘low’ in Canada, the US, Spain, the UK, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.
Syria, Mali, Libya, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen are all ranked as ‘extreme’ in this category, with Mexico, Pakistan and parts of India ‘high’.

The countries in the ‘low’ category for risks to health include Canada, the U.S, most of Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
Brazil, China and Russia are shown to have ‘rapidly developing variable risk’ when it comes to health. Africa poses a very high risk to travellers, as do Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Guyana.

For road safety, other than African countries, the places that pose the largest risk are Brazil, Bolivia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kazakhstan. The US has a ‘moderate’ ranking in this category.
For people want to travel to Europe, the risk is ‘low’ or ‘very low’ across the board, as are Australia, New Zealand and Japan.