Safety is an essential criteria in living in any part of the world. The safety of a country can be measured by the political terror, death from internal conflict and murder rate. Some of the countries in the world has been tagged dangerous and unsafe due to some or all of the following being done: conflict, ongoing unrest, robberies, assault, carjacking, kidnappings, widespread violent crime and lots more.
Below are some of the most dangerous and unsafe countries in the world.
1. Afghanistan: this is the most dangerous country in the world and has the highest number of deaths from war and terrorism. It was recorded that in a certain year, the violence in this country ate up 40 percent of gross domestic product.
2. Yemen: this country is said to have the world worst humanitarian crisis and an over five years of conflict led to 4.3 million people leaving their homes and 14 million people over risk of starvation and outbreak of deadly diseases.
3. Syria: this is the world third most dangerous country and the civil war that happened in 2011 has been the deadliest war of the 21st century. The terror from this country has really increased and has the most devastating impact on their economy, whereby 82 percent of its economic output has been lost.
4. South Sudan: this country lost 40 percent of its gross domestic product in the year 2020 due to violence and this country still has armed conflict between the government and opposition groups.
5. Iraq: this country is the fifth most dangerous country where both internal and external conflict and terrorist attack happens. In this country it has also been recorded that other human right violations including violations of freedom of assembly and women’s rights have persisted.
6. Somalia: At a particular time, this country was ranked as a do not travel country due to activities such as murder, kidnapping, violent crimes, terrorists attacking airports, hotels, government buildings, shopping area and car bombs.
7. Congo: This country was ranked a violent crime country as of 30th of November 2021 due to the crime such as armed robbery, armed home invasion, assailants posing as police or security agents and assault. As worse as the situations were, this country local police lack resources and gadgets to respond effectively to crime.
8. Libya: This country has been rated to have an extreme level of risk for travelers on the Travel Risk Map and also recorded that a 15 month conflict between different armed groups, resulted to hundreds of civilian bring killed and missing while thousands of civilian has been displaced.
9. Central African Republic: this country is one of the dangerous country and has in the record that about 20 percent of the Central African Republic population fled the violence and insecurity that surrounded the December 2020 elections hence, spilling into neighboring Cameroon, Chad and the Republic of Congo.
10. Russia: Russia is known to have one of the biggest increase in demonstrating violence. However, Russians who do not openly resist the government do not see the country as a dangerous and unsafe place to live in. Only a few percentage of Russians seem to be worried about being a victim of violent crime.
In the world at large, some parts of it are peaceful, experience low crime and violence while some other parts of the world are driven by crime, terrorism, instability and violence. In safe countries, sometimes something bad could occur not to compare with a country that is dangerous and it is very much important that places like this are avoided so as to live safe and exist peacefully.