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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 1992 and 2012.

Country Number
of deaths,
1992–2012
Iraq 151
Philippines 73
Algeria 60
Russia 54
Pakistan 51
Somalia 49
Colombia 44
Syria 32
India 29
Mexico 28
Brazil 24
Afghanistan 24
Turkey 20
Bosnia 19
Sri Lanka 19
Tajikistan 17
Rwanda 17
Sierra Leone 16
Bangladesh 13
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory 12
Circumstances: murder: 68%; crossfire in war: 19%; reporting in other dangerous circumstances: 13%. Demographic traits: female journalists: 6%; male journalists: 94%.
Source: The Committee to Protect Journalists, www.cpj.org.

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