City Travel Stats

Foz do Iguaçu

Brazil · Latin America & Caribbean

36Safety indexHigher concern
2CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 2 · Increased caution
2GB flagUK FCDOLevel 2 · Increased caution
2AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 2 · Increased caution
4/5metric categories covered
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-25.55°, -54.59°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Foz do Iguaçu is among the lower-scoring cities in our index, at 36 out of 100, with only about 8% of the cities we rank sitting below it.

Its homicide rate is 21.4 per 100,000, more than thirteen times the median for the cities we track. That rate covers the wider municipality and we calculated it from a count and a population, so it isn't specific to any one part of the city. We hold no vetted robbery figure here, which leaves the profile leaning on advisories and perception. The four governments we track all place Brazil at increased caution, their second level, and each flags pickpocketing and scams aimed at visitors. In a national survey, 48.3% of people said they feel safe walking alone at night, a figure for the whole country rather than Foz do Iguaçu.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime43
Robbery & theftNo data
Travel advisory33
The radar shows the three sourced, comparable risk measures (homicide, robbery, the strictest travel-advisory level). Tourist petty-crime signals are a different kind of measure — how often advisories mention them — so they are shown as rows under Tourist-specific incidents, not as radar axes.

Homicide / general violence

Intentional homicides (per 100,000)
21.4/100k
Figure is for Foz do Iguaçu (municipality), wider than Foz do Iguaçu itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 61 (count, 2025) ÷ 285415 population (IBGE — Censo Demográfico 2022, 2022) × 100k.

Primary source: SINESP / Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública — Dados Nacionais de Segurança Pública (VDE)

Where this sits on the scaleSevere
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 10% of tracked cities
21.4/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

No vetted robbery figure for Foz do Iguaçu yet.

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department

No advisory on record.

Global Affairs Canada
2CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 2 · Increased caution

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Brazil Travel Advice and Advisories

UK FCDO
2GB flagUK FCDOLevel 2 · Increased caution

Primary source: UK FCDO — Brazil travel advice

Smartraveller (Australia)
2AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 2 · Increased caution

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — Brazil travel advice

Perceived safety

How safe people say they feel, from official population surveys — a separate signal, not part of the Safety Index.
Feel safe walking alone at night
National survey
48.3%feel safe
48.3% of people surveyed · Brazil · 2021
Survey figure is for Brazil (country), wider than Foz do Iguaçu itself.

Primary source: UN SDG 16.1.4 — feel safe walking alone at night (UNODC)

Tourist-specific incidents

How often government travel advisories mention each — a source-consensus signal, not a risk rate.
Pickpocketing & petty theft in travel advisories
2 of 2 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 2 of 2 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.
Based on only 2 reviewed advisories — a thin sample; treat as indicative.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Brazil travel advice (Safety and security)

Scams & fraud in travel advisories
2 of 2 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 2 of 2 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.
Based on only 2 reviewed advisories — a thin sample; treat as indicative.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Brazil travel advice (Safety and security)