This Map Reveals The World's Most Dangerous Countries

Whether you like to live on the wild side or prefer to go through life with 0% risk, keeping safety in mind when choosing a holiday destination is important.

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.

From left to right: scale for road safety risk, scale for medical risk and the scale for security risk

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 security risks of Asia and Australia

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.

The security risks for the US, Canada and Europe

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.

About the author

Alice Johnston

Food Editor

Alice is always planning her next meal. She studied English at the University of Bristol before getting her Master’s in newspaper journalism from City University London. She worked on Femail at Mail Online for 18 months writing about lifestyle and food and has also worked at Metro.co.uk, The Guardian, Mumsnet and The Sun. After starting at Culture Trip as a Social Content Producer writing travel and lifestyle stories, she was promoted to the role of Food Editor and now specialises in culinary culture, trends and social issues around food. When she’s not writing, eating or travelling, she can be found cooking overly elaborate dinners, reading cookbooks in bed or playing with her cat, Orlando. Her favourite foods include fishfinger sandwiches, burnt caramel panna cotta, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and oysters.