City Travel Stats

Rio de Janeiro

Brazil · Latin America & Caribbean

39Safety 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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-22.91°, -43.17°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Rio de Janeiro scores 39 out of 100 in our index, with only about 10% of the cities we rank falling below it.

The homicide rate is 18.6 per 100,000, roughly 11.6 times the median of the cities we track; it covers the municipality rather than any one district, and we derived the rate from a count and a population, so individual neighbourhoods can sit well above or below it. We hold no vetted robbery rate for the city, which leaves a gap in the picture. The four governments we track all place Brazil at their second advisory level, increased caution, with no split between them, and each flags pickpocketing and scams for visitors. In a national survey, 48.3% of people said they feel safe walking alone at night, a country-wide result rather than one for Rio.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime37
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)
18.6/100k
Figure is for Rio de Janeiro (municipality), wider than Rio de Janeiro itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 1155 (count, 2025) ÷ 6211223 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 scaleHigh
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 10% of tracked cities
18.6/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

No vetted robbery figure for Rio de Janeiro 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 Rio de Janeiro 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)