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 1992 and 2012.

Country	Number of deaths, 1992–2012
Iraq	151
Philippines	73
Algeria	60
Russia	54
Pakistan	51
Somalia	49
Colombia	44
Syria	33
India	29
Mexico	28
Brazil	26
Afghanistan	24
Turkey	21
Bosnia	19
Sri Lanka	19
Rwanda	17
Tajikistan	17
Sierra Leone	16
Bangladesh	13
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory	12

Circumstances: murder: 71%; crossfire in war: 17%; reporting in other dangerous circumstances: 12%. Demographic traits: female journalists: 7%; male journalists: 93%; print journalists: 56%; television journalists: 28%; radio journalists: 20%; Internet journalists: 3%.

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

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