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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 2011.

Country	Number of deaths, 1992–2011
Iraq	151
Philippines	72
Algeria	60
Russia	53
Colombia	43
Pakistan	41
Somalia	36
India	27
Mexico	27
Afghanistan	24
Turkey	20
Bosnia	19
Sri Lanka	19
Brazil	19
Rwanda	17
Tajikistan	17
Sierra Leone	16
Bangladesh	12
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory	10
Angola	10

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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