Warnely/country-risk

Warnely Country Risk Dataset

180 countries scored for travel safety across editorial, government-advisory, structural, and live-incident dimensions. Composite risk score on a 0-100 scale (lower is safer). Published under CC BY 4.0.

What's in it

One row per country, 19 columns. Composite formula: 0.5 × editorial + 0.3 × authority + 0.15 × structural + 0.05 × live, renormalised when components are missing.

Coverage:

• Africa: 49
• Europe: 42
• Latin America & the Caribbean: 33
• Asia: 29
• Middle East: 15
• Oceania: 7
• Unknown: 3
• North America: 2

Columns

Column	Description
iso2	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. TH, GB)
iso3	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (e.g. THA, GBR)
name	Country name (en-GB)
region	One of: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
risk_score	Composite 0-100 (lower is safer)
risk_tier	One of: Very Safe, Exercise Normal Caution, Exercise Increased Caution, High Risk, Do Not Travel
editorial_score	Editorial component 0-100 (six-category traveller-risk roll-up)
authority_score	Authority component 0-100 (worst-of FCDO + US State advisory)
structural_score	Structural component 0-100 (GPI + WGI blend; blank if both absent)
live_score	Live component 0-100 (30-day rolling incident pressure)
fcdo_status	Semicolon-separated UK FCDO advisory codes
state_level	US State Department advisory level 1-4
drug_law_tier	One of: death, severe, strict, moderate, decriminalised, legal
lgbtq_legal	Six-tier legal status (marriage / partnership / legal / hostile / criminalised / death)
lgbtq_social	Five-tier social climate (progressive / accepting / mixed / conservative / hostile)
women_safety_tier	Five-tier women's-safety rating
gpi_rank	Global Peace Index rank (latest edition)
last_reviewed	ISO date of the most recent editorial review
next_review_by	ISO date of the next scheduled review

Sources

• UK FCDO travel advice (gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice), scraped daily.
• US State Department travel advisories (travel.state.gov), scraped daily.
• Global Peace Index (Institute for Economics and Peace), latest annual edition.
• World Governance Indicators (World Bank), latest annual edition.
• Warnely incident wire (Reuters, BBC, AP, AFP, USGS, GDACS, ReliefWeb), 30-day rolling.

Full methodology with anchor IDs per component: https://warnely.com/guides/methodology.

Update cadence

Authority signals (FCDO + US State) refresh daily. The editorial layer is reviewed on a tier-based cadence (90 / 180 / 365 days). The composite score is recomputed on every refresh.

This dataset card was generated on 2026-05-14 from the 2026-04-24 editorial snapshot. The dataset itself updates automatically when Warnely rebuilds.

Use

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("warnely/country-risk")
print(ds["train"][0])

Or in JavaScript / TypeScript:

const res = await fetch("https://warnely.com/methodology/data.csv");
const csv = await res.text();

Citation

Warnely. 2026. Warnely Country Risk Dataset. CC BY 4.0. https://warnely.com/guides/methodology

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Attribute as: Warnely, https://warnely.com/guides/methodology.

Note: fcdo_status is a derived structural code, not the original FCDO copy. The full FCDO and US State Department advisory text remains Crown / US Government work and is linked from each country page; the dataset only carries the structural code Warnely uses for the composite formula.

Limitations

• The composite score is a starting point, not a verdict. A 25 in France and a 25 in Costa Rica reflect very different threat profiles; the structured columns are designed to be read together rather than reduced to a single number.
• Structural data (GPI, WGI) lacks coverage for around 17 small Pacific island states; those rows have empty structural_score and the composite weights are renormalised.
• This data is not a substitute for the official government advisory. Always check the underlying advisory before booking and again before departure.

Maintainer

Warnely. Corrections welcome: hello@warnely.com.