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Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan and Venezuela are the most dangerous countries on the globe, according to the new Travel Risk Map, an interactive map designed to make travelers aware of the most complicated points on the planet in the face of 2020 .
The map is prepared according to three parameters: road risk, safety in general and sanitary considerations. Factors such as transport infrastructure, the effectiveness of emergency services and vulnerability to natural disasters are taken into account.
On the other side of the spectrum, the safest countries in the world would be Finland, Norway, Iceland , Switzerland, Luxembourg, Slovenia and Andorra. All reached the maximum score in the prediction made by International SOS , experts in international risk.
Spain has the minimum medical risk on the scale of 1 to 5, being 1 "insignificant" and 5 very high. Also the minimum at risk on the road. In terms of security, it occupies a worse position, the second, which corresponds to "low" risk. The study includes security aspects such as political violence (including terrorism), social unrest and common crime.
Venezuela, Haiti, North Korea, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Eritrea, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau and Burundi are all countries with "very high risk" in terms of health problems, which can include from the prevalence of infectious diseases to the supply of medicines, among other things. As for security, the researchers point to Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen. Somalia, Libya and Nigeria as extreme risk countries.
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