For the Travel Risk Map, analysts looked at a wide range of factors including infectious diseases, standard of emergency medical care, access to medicine, crime, political and social unrest, quality of emergency services and susceptibility to natural disasters.
Countries were assigned security risk ratings that range from extreme to high, medium, low and insignificant.
Along with Northern Europe, other destinations where the travel risks are “insignificant” and which have low medical risks include Switzerland, Slovenia and Monaco.
And while Canada and the US are considered low medical risk countries, they’re classified in the “low travel risk” category — one level above “insignificant.”
Meanwhile, the countries that are red-flagged on the map include the usual suspects across Africa and the Middle East, such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Niger, South Sudan and North Korea.