Ulaanbaatar

Mongolia · Asia

80Safety indexLower concern

U.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

UK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Smartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions

5/5metric categories covered

Open comparison

47.89°, 106.91°

Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Ulaanbaatar scores 80 out of 100 in our index, safer than about 44% of the cities we rank.

Both of its crime figures are reported for the city itself, which is unusual in our data. The homicide rate is 5.9 per 100,000, a little under four times the median for the cities we track, and robbery is 27.7 per 100,000, drawn from police reports that miss unreported incidents. We calculated both rates from counts and populations. All four governments we track hold Mongolia at their lowest advisory level, though each notes pickpocketing and scams for visitors. In a national survey, 70.6% of people said they feel safe walking alone at night, a country-wide result.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern

Violent crime12

Robbery & theft5

Travel advisory0

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)

5.9/100k

Rate computed by project-atlas: 104 (count, 2024) ÷ 1757452 population (National Statistics Office of Mongolia — Mid-year total population by aimags and the Capital (PxWeb DT_NSO_0300_002V1), 2024) × 100k.

Primary source: National Statistics Office of Mongolia — Recorded crime by type of crime, soum and district (PxWeb DT_NSO_2300_046V1)

Where this sits on the scaleElevated

01·3·8·20·40 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 28% of tracked cities

5.9/100k

0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)

27.7/100k

Police-recorded robbery (NSO, from police administrative records). As with all police data this is recorded — not total — robbery; under-reporting is not adjusted for.

Rate computed by project-atlas: 486 (count, 2024) ÷ 1757452 population (National Statistics Office of Mongolia — Mid-year total population by aimags and the Capital (PxWeb DT_NSO_0300_002V1), 2024) × 100k.

Primary source: National Statistics Office of Mongolia — Recorded crime by type of crime, soum and district (PxWeb DT_NSO_2300_046V1)

Where this sits on the scaleLow

040·120·250·400·600 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 79% of tracked cities

27.7/100k

0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department

U.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: U.S. Department of State — Mongolia Travel Advisory

Global Affairs Canada

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

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

UK FCDO

UK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — Mongolia travel advice

Smartraveller (Australia)

Smartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — Mongolia 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

70.6%feel safe

70.6% of people surveyed · Mongolia · 2022

Survey figure is for Mongolia (country), wider than Ulaanbaatar 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

3 of 3 advisories mention this

project-atlas count: 3 of 3 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

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

Scams & fraud in travel advisories

0 of 3 advisories mention this

project-atlas count: 0 of 3 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

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