What Travelers Say vs. Our Data
Data as of November 11, 2026.
Travelers rate United States 0.3 points less safe than our data — the widest gap among the 2 countries with enough votes so far.
Our safety scores are built from government travel advisories, conflict and crime data, and other structural indicators. But people who have actually been somewhere sometimes see it differently. Every country page invites travelers to say whether our score feels right — this page lines up their answers against our data, for every country with enough votes to be meaningful.
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Countries ranked
United States −0.3
Widest gap
Countries Ranked by Gap
- Data 7.5/10Community 7.8/10Data7.5/10Community7.8/10
Our score is held down most by governance (4.3/10) — a structural weakness that rarely surfaces on an ordinary short trip.
- Data 7.4/10Community 7.1/10Data7.4/10Community7.1/10
Our score is held down most by natural hazards (6.9/10) — a hazard whose impact depends more on timing than on the destination itself.
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A country only appears in this ranking once it has at least 30 votes from at least 3 countries of origin — enough for the average to mean something. Right now that's 2 countries. Help the list grow:
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How to Read This Page
"Our score" is the data-driven number you see on every country page: a composite of conflict, crime, health, governance and natural hazard indicators, recomputed daily. "Community score" is what travelers tell us: each vote says whether our score felt too high, about right or too low, and we turn it into the score that traveler would have given — the score shown at the time, moved half a point per step.
We don't just average every vote equally. Newer votes count more than older ones — their weight halves every 30 days — and no single country of origin can carry more than half of the total weight, so one country's visitors can't decide the result on their own. Once a country has enough votes from enough countries of origin, the community can move our safety score by at most 1 point in either direction, and by less while votes are few. That cap keeps a handful of very vocal votes from swamping a number meant to reflect broad, verified data.
A gap between the two is genuinely useful information: our score weighs structural risk indicators a short trip may never touch, while travelers report what daily life actually felt like — including things no dataset fully captures, and occasionally one loud trip report more than a broad pattern. Neither number is "the truth" by itself; read together, they tell you more than either one alone.
Curious how the data-driven score is actually built? Read our full methodology.