Deadliest Countries for Journalists, 1996-2008
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
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 2008.
| Country | Number of deaths, 1996–2008 |
|---|---|
| Paraguay | 1 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 |
| United States | 1 |
| Iraq | 132 |
| Algeria | 60 |
| Russia | 45 |
| Colombia | 39 |
| Philippines | 32 |
| India | 23 |
| Bosnia | 19 |
| Turkey | 20 |
| Peru | 1 |
| Somalia | 8 |
| Sri Lanka | 5 |
| Rwanda | 16 |
| Sierra Leone | 16 |
| Bolivia | 1 |
| Afghanistan | 3 |
| Burma | 1 |
| Eritrea | 2 |
| Haiti | 1 |
| Honduras | 1 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 |
| Nepal | 1 |
| Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territory | 2 |
| Pakistan | 8 |
| Tajikistan | 16 |
Circumstances: murder: 238; crossfire in war: 67; reporting in other dangerous circumstances: 33. Demographic traits: female journalists: 19; photographers and camera operators: 67; radio journalists: 62; U.S. journalists: 9.
Source: The Committee to Protect Journalists, www.cpj.org.
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