Deadliest Countries for Journalists

Each year, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) publishes a list of journalists killed while on assignment. The following list does not include those who were killed in accidents, such as car or plane crashes, unless the accident was caused by hostile action. The following statistics indicate where the most deaths occurred between 1996 and 2008.

Country	Number of deaths, 1996–2008
Iraq	135
Algeria	60
Russia	49
Colombia	40
Philippines	39
India	24
Somalia	23
Pakistan	20
Bosnia	19
Turkey	19
Afghanistan	17

Circumstances: murder: 265; crossfire in war: 67; reporting in other dangerous circumstances: 39. Demographic traits: female journalists: 20; photographers and camera operators: 82; radio journalists: 62; U.S. journalists: 9.

Source: The Committee to Protect Journalists, www.cpj.org.

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