Is Abengourou safe?
Cote d'Ivoire · Africa · data updated 2026-09-04
Abengourou is a city in Cote d'Ivoire, home to about 146k people, and one of 6,168 cities worldwide ranked on this site from published safety data. It currently ranks 2,013 of 6,168, with a safety score of 78.9 out of 100 - comfortably in the safer part of the ranking.
Emergency Ambulance 185 · Fire 180 · Police 110, 111 or 170
- UK FCDO advises against all travel to parts of this country5 named areas - see "areas to avoid" below.
Areas the UK FCDO advises against visiting country
- Borders with Burkina Faso and Mali
- Côte d’Ivoire-Liberia border
- within 40km of the borders with Burkina Faso and Mali
- Northern Zanzan and Savanes provinces
- Comoé National Park
Named in the official UK travel advice for Cote d'Ivoire (in full or in part - the advisory lists exact boundaries and exceptions). These are country-level warnings and may be far from Abengourou.
How safe is Abengourou really?
Neither Abengourou nor Cote d'Ivoire has a published homicide rate in the sources this site uses (UNODC and the Igarapé Homicide Monitor), so the strongest single indicator of city safety is simply missing here. Cote d'Ivoire's income inequality is middling (Gini 35.3) - in this dataset inequality predicts city violence better than any other structural factor, so this neither raises nor lowers the picture much.
What the travel advisories say
The US State Department currently rates Cote d'Ivoire at level 2 of 4 - "Exercise increased caution" (updated 2026-02-17). The UK Foreign Office advises against all travel to parts of this country, naming 5 specific areas - listed above with the official advisory linked for exact boundaries and exceptions. Both advisories are country-level: no official source publishes verified neighborhood-level crime guidance for individual cities, which is why this page reports named areas only where an official source names them.
What to watch out for in Cote d'Ivoire
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Topic headings from the official UK FCDO travel advice for Cote d'Ivoire — country-level, not specific to Abengourou. Read what each one says →
The numbers
- Homicide rate
- no data
- Conflict deaths
- 0within 100 km, 2022-2024 (UCDP)
- Income inequality
- Gini 35.3country, 2021
- Human development
- HDI 0.582country, 2023
- Income
- $7,750/yrGNI per capita PPP · context only, not scored
- Population
- 146kurban centre · 6,327/km²
Country context for travelers
- Road deaths
- 24.1 /100kWHO, 2019 · often the biggest real travel risk
- Political stability
- 51/100World Bank WGI, 2024 · higher = more stable
- Rule of law
- 47/100World Bank WGI, 2024 · police and courts reliability
- Corruption perceptions
- 43/100Transparency International, 2025 · higher = cleaner
- Natural-hazard risk
- 5.2/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Women, Peace & Security
- 0.59Georgetown WPS Index, 2025 · 0-1, higher = better
- Air quality
- 20.4 µg/m³PM2.5 annual mean, 2023 · WHO guideline is 5
- Safely managed drinking water
- 36%of the population, 2024 · WHO/UNICEF JMP
- Healthcare capacity
- 0.2 doctors /1k0.4 hospital beds per 1,000
- Malaria
- 268 /1k at riskWHO, 2024 · listed for endemic countries only
Natural hazards in Cote d'Ivoire
- Flood
- 4.8/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
Hazard types scoring under 1 out of 10 are not listed. These describe Cote d'Ivoire as a whole, not Abengourou specifically.
Same-sex sexual activity is legal in Cote d'Ivoire (as of 2025).
All country-level figures shared by every city in Cote d'Ivoire; none of them affect the safety score.
How the score works
One fixed, calibrated mix for every city: 40% homicide · 25% peace · 25% equality · 10% HDI. Homicide and conflict deaths are measured outcomes; income inequality carries the structural share because it predicts real city violence far better than national income (which is shown above but scored at zero). Each factor maps to 0-100 against fixed anchors, missing data drops out and is never estimated, and cities with data behind less than half the weighting get “no data” instead of a score. For Abengourou that gives 78.9/100. Full methodology, anchors and sources →
Abengourou compared with Abidjan
| Measure | Abengourou | Abidjan | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety score | 78.9 | 78.9 | ±0.0 |
| Homicide ratecity-measured where published, otherwise the national rate | no data | no data | — |
| Conflict deaths within 100 km | 0 | 0 | ±0 |
Differences are plain arithmetic between the two stored figures — nothing is modelled. Both cities are in Cote d'Ivoire, so they share every country-level figure and only the city-level ones are listed. Full report for Abidjan →
Nearby cities
- Kato, Ghana 67.7
- Sunyani, Ghana 67.7
- Abidjan 78.9
- Bondoukou 78.9
- Yamoussoukro 78.9
- Techiman, Ghana 67.7
- Bouaké 78.9
- Patase, Ghana 67.7
See Abengourou on the interactive map → · Safest cities in Africa → · Full travel briefings →