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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.
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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 ...
English: Chart showing homicide rates of high-income countries (vertical axis) and total number of homicides per country (areas of bars). Widths of bars show country populations. Data sources: Homicide data from Homicide rate UNODC / Homicide rate, 2021. OurWorldInData.org. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2023).
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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 ...
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 ...
The report says homicide rates increased by 53 percent between June and August 2020 compared with the same period in 2019. Aggravated assaults rose by 14 percent.