The list of countries by UNODC homicide rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100 000 individuals per year A homicide rate of 30 out of 100 000 corresponds to 0 03 of the population dying by homicide The reliability of underlying national murder rate data may vary Only UNODC vetted data is used in the main table below In some cases it may not be as up to date as other sources See further down as to why its data is used over other sources Homicide rates may be under reported for political reasons 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 UNODC calculated a rate of 6 9 in 2010 UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported a global average intentional homicide rate of 6 2 per 100 000 population for 2012 in their report titled Global Study on Homicide 2013 In the 2019 edition the global rate was estimated at 6 1 per 100 000 for 2017 DefinitionThe class of violent deaths documented in this article is intentional killing of others outside of war Deaths occurring during situations of civil unrest are a grey area Map of countries by their intentional homicide rate per 100 000 people The year of the data varies from 2006 to 2018 gt 20 15 to 20 10 to 14 9 5 to 9 9 1 5 to 4 9 1 to 1 4 lt 1 Data unavailable Intentional homicide is defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC in its Global Study on Homicide report 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 interventions or justifiable killings such as self defence and those deaths caused when the perpetrator was reckless or negligent but did not intend to take a human life non intentional homicide Though some discrepancies exist in how specific categories of intentional killings are classified the definitions used by countries to record data are generally close to the UNODC definition making the homicide rates highly comparable at the international level UNODC uses the homicide rate as a proxy for overall violence as this type of crime is one of the most accurately reported and internationally comparable indicators Figures from the Global Study on Homicide are based on the UNODC Homicide Statistics dataset which is derived from the criminal justice or public health systems of a variety of countries and territories The homicide rates derived from criminal justice data typically recorded by police authorities and the public health system data recorded when the cause of death is established may diverge substantially for some countries The two sources usually match in the Americas Europe and Oceania but there are large discrepancies for the three African countries reporting both sources For the 70 countries in which neither source was made available figures were derived from WHO statistical models Deaths resulting from an armed conflict between states are never included in the count Killings caused by a non international armed conflict may or may not be included depending on the intensity of hostilities and whether it is classified as civil unrest or a clash between organized armed groups UNODC s global studyAll data in this section comes from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC website By region United Nations geoscheme with region names in the UNODC data source used in table hereUNODC 2021 murder rates per 100 000 Region Rate HomicidesAmericas 15 154 000Africa 12 7 176 000World 5 8 458 000Oceania 2 9 1 000Asia 2 3 109 000Europe 2 2 17 000 Rates vary widely within regions See info on secondary sorting within regions and subregions below By country region or dependent territory The regions and subregions in the table are based on the United Nations geoscheme since the table sources are United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC reports The U N recognizes that variability in the quality and integrity of data provided by certain countries may minimize country murder rates Go to the more detailed country info in the references and the country links in the table for more info Table has a total yearly count of homicides for each country Rates are calculated per 100 000 inhabitants Rates are to the 3rd decimal place in order to separate countries with low homicide rates Note When the regions or subregions are sorted the countries are also alphabetically sorted within those regions or subregions Then shift click rates or counts to secondarily sort countries by rates or counts within the regions or subregions previously sorted Note Table last fully updated from data retrieved 24 June 2024 from UNODC Individual countries updated since then Note Only UNODC vetted data is used in the table Asterisk in Location column indicates a Crime in LOCATION article Intentional homicide counts and victims per 100 000 inhabitants From UNODC Location Rate Count Year Region Subregion Afghanistan 4 022 1 613 2021 Asia Southern Asia Albania 1 654 47 2022 Europe Southern Europe Algeria 1 770 795 2022 Africa Northern Africa American Samoa 0 0 2019 Oceania Polynesia Andorra 2 574 2 2020 Europe Southern Europe Angola 4 102 1 196 2016 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Anguilla 28 328 4 2014 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda 10 665 10 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Argentina 4 309 1 961 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Armenia 2 186 61 2021 Asia Western Asia Aruba 1 931 2 2014 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Australia 0 833 218 2022 Oceania Australia and New Zealand Austria 0 884 79 2022 Europe Western Europe Azerbaijan 2 365 245 2022 Asia Western Asia Bahamas 31 221 128 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Bahrain 0 204 3 2022 Asia Western Asia Bangladesh 2 340 3 830 2018 Asia Southern Asia Barbados 15 268 43 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Belarus 2 326 225 2019 Europe Eastern Europe Belgium 1 077 125 2021 Europe Western Europe Belize 27 882 113 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Bermuda 6 243 4 2023 Americas Northern America Bhutan 2 460 19 2020 Asia Southern Asia Bolivia 4 318 535 2023 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 082 35 2022 Europe Southern Europe Botswana 10 547 273 2021 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Brazil 20 606 44 367 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean British Virgin Islands 8 223 2 2006 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Brunei 0 486 2 2013 Asia South eastern Asia Bulgaria 1 121 76 2022 Europe Eastern Europe Burundi 5 824 635 2016 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Cape Verde 6 179 36 2020 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Cambodia 1 839 268 2011 Asia South eastern Asia Cameroon 4 537 1 202 2020 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Canada 2 273 874 2022 Americas Northern America Cayman Islands 4 457 3 2020 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Chile 6 744 1 322 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean China 0 502 7 157 2020 Asia Eastern Asia Colombia 25 269 13 108 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Cook Islands 3 490 1 2012 Oceania Polynesia Costa Rica 17 382 906 2023 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Croatia 0 769 31 2022 Europe Southern Europe Cuba 4 418 500 2019 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Curacao 17 092 26 2007 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Cyprus 0 873 11 2023 Asia Western Asia Czech Republic 0 839 88 2022 Europe Eastern Europe Denmark 0 986 58 2022 Europe Northern Europe Dominica 26 121 19 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Dominican Republic 12 370 1 389 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean East Timor 4 064 49 2015 Asia South eastern Asia Ecuador 26 993 4 859 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Egypt 1 336 1 360 2017 Africa Northern Africa El Salvador 7 828 496 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Eritrea 14 573 474 2012 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Estonia 1 508 20 2022 Europe Northern Europe Eswatini 12 665 151 2021 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Ethiopia 8 632 8 153 2012 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Fiji 2 173 20 2020 Oceania Melanesia Finland 1 245 69 2022 Europe Northern Europe France 1 560 1 010 2023 Europe Western Europe French Guiana 13 300 39 2020 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean French Polynesia 0 354 1 2009 Oceania Polynesia Georgia 2 042 77 2019 Asia Western Asia Germany 0 823 686 2022 Europe Western Europe Ghana 1 813 607 2022 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Gibraltar 3 199 1 2010 Europe Southern Europe Greece 1 127 117 2022 Europe Southern Europe Greenland 5 365 3 2016 Americas Northern America Grenada 6 378 8 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Guadeloupe 5 781 23 2016 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Guam 4 151 7 2019 Oceania Micronesia Guatemala 19 990 3 520 2021 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Guinea Bissau 1 117 21 2017 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Guyana 16 198 131 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Haiti 40 845 4 789 2023 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Holy See 0 0 2022 Europe Southern Europe Honduras 35 072 3 659 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Hong Kong 0 401 30 2022 Asia Eastern Asia Hungary 0 973 97 2022 Europe Eastern Europe Iceland 1 073 4 2022 Europe Northern Europe India 2 832 40 130 2022 Asia Southern Asia Indonesia 0 307 847 2022 Asia South eastern Asia Iran 2 421 1 936 2014 Asia Southern Asia Iraq 9 410 3 339 2013 Asia Western Asia Iraq Central Iraq 15 397 5 459 2021 Asia Western Asia Iraq Kurdistan Region 2 246 111 2013 Asia Western Asia Ireland 0 876 44 2022 Europe Northern Europe Isle of Man 0 0 2016 Europe Northern Europe Israel 1 626 147 2022 Asia Western Asia Italy 0 545 322 2022 Europe Southern Europe Jamaica 53 336 1 508 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Japan 0 233 289 2022 Asia Eastern Asia Jordan 0 997 113 2023 Asia Western Asia Kazakhstan 2 634 511 2022 Asia Central Asia Kenya 4 892 2 643 2022 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Kiribati 7 167 8 2012 Oceania Micronesia Kosovo 1 986 33 2021 Europe Southern Europe Kuwait 0 252 11 2020 Asia Western Asia Latvia 3 620 67 2022 Europe Northern Europe Lebanon 2 260 128 2020 Asia Western Asia Lesotho 37 694 752 2008 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Liberia 3 117 135 2012 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Liechtenstein 5 123 2 2021 Europe Western Europe Lithuania 2 436 67 2022 Europe Northern Europe Luxembourg 1 544 10 2022 Europe Western Europe Macau 0 568 4 2023 Asia Eastern Asia Malawi 1 791 279 2012 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Malaysia 0 724 243 2021 Asia South eastern Asia Maldives 0 595 3 2019 Asia Southern Asia Malta 0 561 3 2023 Europe Southern Europe Marshall Islands 4 013 2 1994 Oceania Micronesia Martinique 2 790 11 2009 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Mauritania 1 023 46 2020 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Mauritius 2 232 29 2022 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Mayotte 5 816 12 2009 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Mexico 26 107 33 287 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Micronesia 0 898 1 2019 Oceania Micronesia Monaco 0 0 2008 Europe Western Europe Mongolia 5 944 202 2022 Asia Eastern Asia Montenegro 2 551 16 2022 Europe Southern Europe Montserrat 0 0 2018 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Morocco 1 705 645 2023 Africa Northern Africa Mozambique 3 573 849 2011 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Myanmar 3 872 2 098 2022 Asia South eastern Asia Namibia 12 450 315 2021 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Nepal 2 102 617 2020 Asia Southern Asia Netherlands 0 808 142 2022 Europe Western Europe New Caledonia 3 113 8 2009 Oceania Melanesia New Zealand 1 111 57 2021 Oceania Australia and New Zealand Nicaragua 11 006 754 2021 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Niger 4 389 788 2012 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Nigeria 21 741 44 200 2019 Africa Sub Saharan Africa North Macedonia 0 860 18 2022 Europe Southern Europe Northern Ireland 1 413 27 2022 Europe Northern Europe Norway 0 552 30 2022 Europe Northern Europe Oman 0 262 12 2022 Asia Western Asia Pakistan 4 214 9 937 2022 Asia Southern Asia Palau 11 195 2 2018 Oceania Micronesia Palestine 1 410 74 2022 Asia Western Asia Panama 11 319 499 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Papua New Guinea 9 402 713 2010 Oceania Melanesia Paraguay 6 961 472 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Peru 8 462 2 853 2021 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Philippines 4 316 4 764 2019 Asia South eastern Asia Poland 0 677 270 2022 Europe Eastern Europe Portugal 0 797 82 2021 Europe Southern Europe Puerto Rico 14 232 464 2023 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Qatar 0 074 2 2022 Asia Western Asia South Korea 0 531 275 2022 Asia Eastern Asia Moldova 2 270 78 2023 Europe Eastern Europe Reunion 1 699 15 2009 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Romania 1 256 247 2022 Europe Eastern Europe Russia 6 799 9 866 2021 Europe Eastern Europe Rwanda 3 590 472 2020 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Saint Helena 0 0 2009 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Saint Kitts and Nevis 23 081 11 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Saint Lucia 36 696 66 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Saint Martin 28 727 10 2016 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Saint Pierre and Miquelon 16 518 1 2009 Americas Northern America Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 40 405 42 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Samoa 6 199 13 2018 Oceania Polynesia San Marino 0 0 2011 Europe Southern Europe Sao Tome and Principe 3 225 6 2011 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Saudi Arabia 0 795 285 2019 Asia Western Asia Scotland 0 967 53 2021 Europe Northern Europe Serbia 1 025 74 2022 Europe Southern Europe Seychelles 9 335 10 2022 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Sierra Leone 2 137 176 2020 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Singapore 0 117 7 2022 Asia South eastern Asia Slovakia 0 744 42 2022 Europe Eastern Europe Slovenia 0 613 13 2022 Europe Southern Europe Solomon Islands 3 682 19 2008 Oceania Melanesia South Africa 45 534 27 272 2022 Africa Sub Saharan Africa South Sudan 14 054 1 504 2012 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Spain 0 610 290 2022 Europe Southern Europe Sri Lanka 3 427 742 2019 Asia Southern Asia Suriname 7 281 45 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Sweden 1 100 116 2022 Europe Northern Europe Switzerland 0 481 42 2022 Europe Western Europe Syria 2 073 463 2010 Asia Western Asia Tajikistan 0 912 87 2020 Asia Central Asia Tanzania 3 705 2 286 2020 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Thailand 4 813 3 307 2011 Asia South eastern Asia Tonga 0 953 1 2019 Oceania Polynesia Trinidad and Tobago 39 516 605 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Tunisia 4 621 562 2020 Africa Northern Africa Turkey 2 670 2 279 2022 Asia Western Asia Turkmenistan 1 093 63 2015 Asia Central Asia Turks and Caicos Islands 76 582 35 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Tuvalu 0 0 2019 Oceania Polynesia Uganda 8 768 4 143 2022 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Ukraine 3 843 1 673 2021 Europe Eastern Europe United Arab Emirates 0 752 71 2022 Asia Western Asia United Kingdom England and Wales 1 148 684 2021 Europe Northern Europe United States 6 383 21 594 2022 Americas Northern America U S Virgin Islands 49 631 52 2012 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Uruguay 11 190 383 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Uzbekistan 1 405 479 2021 Asia Central Asia Vanuatu 0 321 1 2020 Oceania Melanesia Venezuela 12 607 3 568 2022 Americas Latin America and the Caribbean Vietnam 1 537 1 358 2011 Asia South eastern Asia Yemen 6 311 1 703 2013 Asia Western Asia Zambia 5 250 853 2015 Africa Sub Saharan Africa Zimbabwe 6 654 1 086 2022 Africa Sub Saharan AfricaOther multi country studiesA 2020 study by InSight Crime found that Jamaica had the highest homicide rate in Latin America and the Caribbean while Venezuela had the second highest rate See alsoCategory Homicide statistics Homicide rate charts for countries will show up there first Crime statistics List of cities by murder rate List of countries by firearm related death rate List of countries by incarceration rate List of countries by intentional death rate homicide plus suicide List of countries by life expectancy List of countries by suicide rate List of Brazilian states by murder rate List of Brazilian federative units by homicide rate List of Canadian provinces and territories by homicide rate List of Mexican states by homicides List of federal subjects of Russia by murder rate List of U S states and territories by violent crime rate List of U S states and territories by intentional homicide rateReferences Intentional Homicide dataunodc un org United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC Table by country Latest available year varies by country Some have 2023 data Can select for few or many countries regions years You can shrink the width of the table to see all the options and all the years you selected To do so drag the zoom bar button at the bottom of the page There is a dataset link to download all the data Table last fully updated from dataset retrieved 24 June 2024 Individual countries updated since then Victims of Intentional Homicide 2018 UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Map and table of rates and counts Pick a country or countries in the sidebar Country dropdown menu Then pick a year 1990 2018 Click that country on the map to see a timeline graph of homicide rates Below the map see a timeline table of the rates and counts for that country or countries There is a Bulk data download link at top right hover to see name May need to click twice to download Homicide rate dataUNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Timeline graph of Victims of intentional homicide 1990 2018 Can select a country and a region Table below graph shows data 1990 2018 Download link icon below table offers multiple formats just for selected country and region Click bulk data download link icon twice at top of page to get Excel file that covers years 1990 2018 for all countries Global Study on Homicide 2019 Booklet 2 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC See page 11 for global rate See page 9 about homicide rates as proxy for overall violence See Box 1 on page 14 for criminal justice data sources versus public health sources See figure 2 on page 14 for regional homicide rates in 2017 See figure 3 on page 16 for regional number of homicides See page 85 about the six booklet format of this study Look for page numbers on the bottom of pages and ignore the incorrect page numbers provided by your PDF reader Richards Patsy 27 May 1999 Homicide statistics research paper 99 56 PDF London UK House of Commons of the United Kingdom library Social and general statistics section See page 7 for section called Definition of the offence of homicide See page 29 for table of nations and homicide rates for the years 1994 97 It also has further info on how homicide is defined across countries Fry Don 1985 Believing the news Poynter Institute for Media Studies ISBN 978 0 935742 11 4 Vizzard William J 2000 Shots in the dark Rowman amp Littlefield ISBN 978 0 8476 9560 7 Global Burden of Armed Violence Report PDF report Geneva Switzerland Geneva Declaration Secretariat September 2008 pp 67ff ISBN 978 2 8288 0101 4 data from 2004 2007 The Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development 2011 Global Study on Homicide Trends Contexts Data data from 2010 or latest available year United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC Vienna Austria UNODC 2014 p 12 Intentional homicide count and rate per 100 000 population by country territory 2000 2012 Data in spreadsheet format for UNODC report titled Global Study on Homicide 2013 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC Linked from Global Study on Homicide Data UNODC Homicide Statistics 2013 UNODC 2014 p 10 UNODC 2014 pp 102 103 UNODC 2014 p 99 UNODC 2014 p 101 UNODC 2014 p 104 Global Study on Homicide 2023 PDF unodc org Retrieved 8 January 2024 UNODC 2014 pp 7 8 InSight Crime s 2020 Homicide Round Up 29 January 2021 SourcesGlobal Study on Homicide 2013 Trends Contexts Data PDF Vienna United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime March 2014 ISBN 9789210542050 Look for page numbers on the bottom of pages and ignore the incorrect page numbers provided by your PDF reader Further readingThe Homicide Monitor map Made by Brazil based think tank The Igarape Institute External linksWikimedia Commons has media related to Homicide rates, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library, article, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games, mobile, phone, android, ios, apple, mobile phone, samsung, iphone, xiomi, xiaomi, redmi, honor, oppo, nokia, sonya, mi, pc, web, computer