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The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
Intentional homicide is defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its Global Study on Homicide report [3] thus: . Within the broad range of violent deaths, the core element of intentional homicide is the complete liability of the direct perpetrator, which thus excludes killings directly related to war or conflicts, self-inflicted death (suicide), killings due to legal ...
Homicide rates may be under-reported for political reasons. [6] [7] [page needed] A study undertaken by the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development estimated that there were approximately 490,000 intentional homicides in 2004. The study estimated that the global rate was 7.6 intentional homicides per 100,000 inhabitants for 2004. [8]
The number of murders and other intentional killings surged to a record high across the world in 2021, driven in part by the stress and economic pressures of COVID-19 lockdowns, a U.N. report said ...
English: Map showing countries by their most recent intentional homicide rate available in January 2021. The year of the data vary from 2006 to 2018. The year of the data vary from 2006 to 2018. More than 20 homicides per 100,000 people
The overall decrease comes after the historic jump in homicides seen at the start of the pandemic where murder rates shot up, rising 30% between 2019 and 2020 — one of the largest single-year ...
List of countries by intentional homicide rate; List of cities by murder rate; List of United States cities by crime rate (2012). 250,000+ United States cities by crime rate (100,000–250,000) United States cities by crime rate (60,000-100,000) List of federal subjects of Russia by murder rate; List of Brazilian states by murder rate
The average homicide rate in the United States was 5.3 murders per 100,000 people in 2016. This rate was as high as 10 per 100,000 in 1980 and 9 per 100,000 in early 90s.