Organized Crime in Western Sahara
The organized crime indicator assesses how strongly Western Sahara is exposed to criminal markets, criminal actors and weak counter-capacity. The raw value is 56 risk points. This results in a Nomadino score of 44/100 and rank 163 of 229.
What the Raw Value Measures
The raw value is a risk index from 0 to 100. It does not assess simple everyday offences alone, but organised structures: drug trafficking, human trafficking, smuggling, extortion, arms trafficking, cybercrime, financial crime, criminal networks, mafia-style groups, state-embedded actors and comparable influence structures.
Western Sahara is not listed separately in the Global Organized Crime Index. Nomadino therefore uses a harmonised fallback based on the administering state, regional comparators and local safety and governance indicators.
Nomadino weights criminal markets at 40%, criminal actors at 25%, low resilience at 20%, governance weakness at 10% and safety plausibility checks at 5%. The score is derived directly: score = 100 minus raw value.
Context for Daily Life and Stays
Exposure is elevated. Criminal networks, weak institutions, corruption or illicit markets can noticeably affect daily life, the economy and state enforcement.
For travellers, this indicator is usually less immediately visible than petty crime or homicide. For relocation, business formation, investment and property purchases it matters more, because organised crime can become relevant indirectly through corruption, extortion, opaque business partners, smuggling routes or weak law enforcement.
