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 2007.

Country	Number of deaths, 1996–2007
Iraq	129
Algeria	60
Russia	45
Colombia	39
Philippines	32
India	22
Bosnia	19
Turkey	20
Rwanda	16
Sierra Leone	16
Tajikistan	16

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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