Lists

🕊️ Safest countries (fewest homicides)

Latest data: 2022–2024 · Data: UN Statistics Division

🇺🇸 USA: #88 of 116 · 5.8

1. 1 🇶🇦 Qatar 0.1
2. 2 🇴🇲 Oman 0.1
3. 3 🇸🇬 Singapore 0.2
4. 4 🇧🇭 Bahrain 0.2
5. 5 🇯🇵 Japan 0.2
6. 6 🇵🇸 West Bank & Gaza 0.3
7. 7 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 0.4
8. 8 🇮🇩 Indonesia 0.4
9. 9 🇰🇷 South Korea 0.5
10. 10 🇨🇭 Switzerland 0.5

Counts homicides only: deaths in wars and armed conflicts are not included, and some figures are a few years old.

🚨 Highest homicide rates

Latest data: 2024 · Data: UN Statistics Division

🇺🇸 USA: #29 of 116 · 5.8

1. 1 🇭🇹 Haiti 64.3
2. 2 🇹🇹 Trinidad & Tobago 41.5
3. 3 🇯🇲 Jamaica 40.4
4. 4 🇿🇦 South Africa 39.7
5. 5 🇪🇨 Ecuador 39.0
6. 6 🇲🇽 Mexico 25.6
7. 7 🇨🇴 Colombia 24.4
8. 8 🇭🇳 Honduras 23.9
9. 9 🇬🇹 Guatemala 22.8
10. 10 🇱🇸 Lesotho 22.2

Counts homicides only: deaths in wars and armed conflicts are not included.

🥣 Most extreme poverty

Latest data: 2020–2022 · Data: UN Statistics Division

🇺🇸 USA: #56 of 106 · 1.1%

1. 1 🇨🇩 DR Congo 85.3%
2. 2 🇲🇿 Mozambique 81.4%
3. 3 🇧🇮 Burundi 74.2%
4. 4 🇿🇲 Zambia 71.7%
5. 5 🇨🇫 Central African Republic 71.6%
6. 6 🇲🇬 Madagascar 69.2%
7. 7 🇳🇪 Niger 60.5%
8. 8 🇰🇪 Kenya 45.5%
9. 9 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso 42.1%
10. 10 🇳🇬 Nigeria 41.8%

Extreme poverty = living on less than $2.15 a day. Latest survey year differs by country.

🌱 Most renewable energy

Latest data: 2023–2024 · Data: UN Statistics Division

🇺🇸 USA: #119 of 160 · 12.2%

1. 1 🇨🇩 DR Congo 95.9%
2. 2 🇱🇷 Liberia 94.3%
3. 3 🇬🇦 Gabon 90.9%
4. 4 🇸🇴 Somalia 89.3%
5. 5 🇨🇫 Central African Republic 89.0%
6. 6 🇪🇹 Ethiopia 88.9%
7. 7 🇺🇬 Uganda 88.2%
8. 8 🇧🇮 Burundi 85.2%
9. 9 🇭🇹 Haiti 84.9%
10. 10 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau 84.1%

🌳 Most forested countries

Latest data: 2025 · Data: UN Statistics Division

🇺🇸 USA: #70 of 158 · 33.8%

1. 1 🇬🇦 Gabon 91.4%
2. 2 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea 85.8%
3. 3 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 75.1%
4. 4 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau 74.7%
5. 5 🇫🇮 Finland 74.2%
6. 6 🇨🇫 Central African Republic 72.4%
7. 7 🇹🇱 Timor-Leste 70.9%
8. 8 🇸🇪 Sweden 68.6%
9. 9 🇯🇵 Japan 68.3%
10. 10 🇱🇷 Liberia 65.7%