List of countries by homicide rate

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Murder rate circa 2004 per every 100,000 people.
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List of countries by homicide rate per year per 100,000 inhabitants. The reliability of underlying national homicide rate data may vary.^[1]

Homicide demographics are affected by changes in trauma care, leading to changed lethality of violent assaults, so the homicide rate may not necessarily indicate the overall level of societal violence.^[2] They may also be underreported for political reasons.

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1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s - References - See also

[edit] 1900s

Country	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909
United States [3]	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.3	2.1	3.9	4.9	4.8	4.6
England,  Wales[4]	0.96

[edit] 1910s

Country	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919
United States [3]	4.6	5.5	5.4	6.1	6.2	5.9	6.3	6.9	6.5	7.2
England,  Wales[4]	0.81

[edit] 1920s

Country	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929
United States [3]	6.8	8.1	8.0	7.8	8.1	8.3	8.4	8.4	8.6	8.4
England,  Wales[4]	0.83

[edit] 1930s

Country	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939
United States [3]	8.8	9.2	9.0	9.7	9.5	8.3	8.0	7.6	6.8	6.4
England,  Wales[4]	0.75

[edit] 1940s

Country	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
United States [3]	6.3	6.0	5.9	5.1	5.0	5.7	6.4	6.1	5.9	5.4
England,  Wales[5]							0.81	0.86	0.78	0.68
Scotland[6]							0.72	0.59	0.66	0.47

[edit] 1950s

Country	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
United States [7]	4.6	4.4	4.6	4.5	4.2	4.1	4.1	4.0	4.8	4.9
Scotland[6]	0.68	0.41	0.53	0.80	0.63	0.68	0.57	0.51	0.82	0.66
England,  Wales[5][4]	0.79	0.75	0.91	0.74	0.70	0.63	0.71	0.71	0.58	0.59
Northern Ireland[8]		0.00	0.22	0.36	0.50	0.21	0.21	0.29	0.50	0.00

[edit] 1960s

Country	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
United States[7]	5.1	4.8	4.6	4.6	4.9	5.1	5.6	6.2	6.9	7.3
Scotland[6]	0.68	0.71	1.12	0.88	0.98	1.21	1.65	1.35	1.40	1.57
Northern Ireland[8]	0.84	0.42	0.35	0.07	0.07	0.27	0.40	0.53	0.33	0.79
England,  Wales[5][4]	0.62	0.57	0.64	0.65	0.63	0.68	0.76	0.73	0.74	0.68

[edit] 1970s

Country	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
Lesotho[9]					141
Bahamas[9]					23
Guyana[9]					22
Lebanon[9]					20
Jamaica[10]	8	8	10	12	10	13	18	20	18	17
Netherlands Antilles[9]					12
Iraq[9]					12
Sri Lanka[9]					12
Cyprus[9]					11
Trinidad and Tobago[9]					10
United States[7]	7.9	8.6	9.0	9.4	9.8	9.6	8.8	8.8	9.0	9.7
Northern Ireland[8]	0.91	7.99	24.58	13.10	13.45	15.62	18.38	8.08	5.56	8.87
Finland[11]							3.3	2.8	3.0	2.7
Canada[11]							3.0	2.8	3.0	2.7
Australia[11]							2.0	1.9	1.8	1.8
New Zealand[11]							1.1	1.8	1.9	1.6
Italy[11]							1.4	1.4	1.4	1.6
Belgium[11]							0.9	0.9		1.6
Scotland[6]	1.59	1.38	1.62	1.47	1.49	1.49	2.03	2.03	1.50	1.42
Austria[11]							2.0	1.3	1.4	1.3
Germany[11]							1.3	1.2	1.2	1.1
France[11]							0.9	1.0	1.0	1.1
England,  Wales[5]	0.69	0.83	0.83	0.79	1.06	0.90	0.99	0.85	0.95	1.10
Japan[11]							1.3	1.2	1.1	1.0
Denmark[11]							0.7	0.7	0.5	1.0
Netherlands[11]							0.8	0.9	0.8	0.9
Sweden[11]							0.9	0.9	0.7	0.9
Ireland[11]							0.3	0.9	0.7	0.9
Norway[11]							0.7	0.8	0.7	0.9
Greece[11]							0.7	0.6	0.7	0.7

[edit] 1980s

Country	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Jamaica[10]	42	23	19	18	21	19	20	19	17	18
Venezuela[12]							8	8	9	13
Soviet Union[11]									9.6	12.4
Brazil[13]	11.7
United States[7]	10.2	9.8	9.1	8.3	7.9	7.9	8.6	8.3	8.4	8.7
Northern Ireland[8]	6.05	6.63	6.74	5.87	4.17	3.89	5.52	6.91	7.33	4.72
Finland[11]	3.3	2.7	2.8	3.1	2.7	2.7	3.3	2.7	2.8	3.2
Italy[11]	1.9	1.9	2.1	1.9	1.6	1.5	1.3	1.6	1.9	2.2
New Zealand[11]	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.6	1.2	2.0	2.2	2.0	1.7	2.2
Australia[11]	1.9	1.9	1.9	1.9	1.9	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.4	2.1
Canada[11]	2.1	2.3	2.4	2.4	2.3	2.1	2.0	2.2	1.9	2.1
Scotland[6]	1.66	1.64	1.53	1.77	1.67	1.54	1.54	1.92	1.57	1.79
Sweden[11]	1.0	1.2	1.4	1.4	0.9	1.4	1.4	1.2	1.4	1.5
Belgium[11]			1.5	1.8	1.7		2.1	1.6	1.5	1.3
Norway[11]	1.1	1.3	1.0	1.2	1.1	1.2	1.6	1.4	1.2	1.3
Denmark[11]	1.3	1.4	1.0	1.2	1.0	1.4	1.2	1.1	1.1	1.2
Austria[11]	1.2	1.3	1.6	1.7	1.8	1.4	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.1
France[11]	1.0	1.0	1.1	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.0	1.1
Germany[11]	1.2	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.1	1.0
Netherlands[11]	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.9	1.0
Spain[11]									0.9	1.0
England,  Wales[5]	1.11	1.01	1.12	0.97	1.08	1.07	1.12	1.19	1.09	1.04
Greece[11]	0.7	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.8	1.1	0.8
Ireland[11]	0.7	2.0	0.6	0.8	0.6	0.6	0.8	1.1	0.8	0.6
Japan[11]	1.0	1.0	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.6

[edit] 1990s

Country	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Albania[14]						96.46	87.55	296.39
Swaziland[15]									90.77	88.48
Colombia[16][17]	70.0	79.0	78.0	76.0	71.0	66.0	67.8	63.3	56.6	58.6
South Africa[18]					69.5	67.5	63.9	59.6	59.0	55.3
Honduras[19]										41.17
El Salvador[20]										36.2
Jamaica[10]	23	23	26	26	28	31	37	42	37	33
Venezuela[12][16][21]	14	14	18	23	26	23	25	19	22	28
Brazil[16]	18.6	17.5	15.6	16.7	17.5	19.3	24	25	26	25
Guatemala[22]									30.65	23.7
Russia/ Soviet Union[11]	14.2	15.2	23.0	30.6	21.9	21.5	19.9	18.03	19.27
Kazakhstan[14]						15.23	16.49	16.33
Bahamas[14]						14.39	17.96	15.92
Mexico[16]	16.6	16.7	17.8	16.7	16.0	15.4	15.4	14.6	14.93	15.13
Ecuador[16]	9.8	10.8	11.4	12.2	10.6	13.4	14.0	12.4	15.1	14.8
Botswana[23]							12.87
Paraguay[15]									16.40	11.83
Estonia[14][15]						16.58	14.60	12.21	13.94	11.32
Zambia[15]									9.02	10.85
Peru[14]						12.52	12.13	10.28
Sri Lanka[14]						8.91	9.70	9.98
Belarus[14][15]						9.29	9.42	9.94	10.26	9.74
Latvia[14][15]						11.45	10.76	11.03	10.21	9.50
Uganda[14]						8.92	9.15	9.45
Papua New Guinea[15]									10.28	8.99
Kyrgyzstan[14][15]						11.85	11.34	9.47	8.86	8.90
Barbados[15]									7.54	8.64
Ukraine[14][15]						8.55	9.58	8.35	8.34	8.52
Thailand[14][15]						7.65	7.46	7.90	9.56	8.39
Lithuania[14][15]						13.51	10.92	10.55	8.40	8.35
Trinidad and Tobago[24]										7.66
Philippines[15]									8.12	7.69
Tajikistan[14]						6.27	7.47	7.63
Moldova[14][15]						8.39	7.91	8.14	7.49	7.62
Tanzania[14]						7.12	7.49	7.52
Argentina[16]	4.5	3.8	4.1	3.6	3.9	7.83	8.52	9.15	7.22	7.29
Zimbabwe[14][15]						6.85	6.73	7.18	6.38	7.04
Costa Rica[14][15]						5.45	5.53	6.06	6.13	6.57
Yemen[15]									3.70	6.02
United States[7]	9.4	9.8	9.3	9.5	9.0	8.22	7.41	6.80	6.3	5.7
Georgia[14][15]						7.22	4.98	5.25	4.47	4.86
Poland[11]		2.8	2.9	2.7	2.4	2.21	2.26	2.09	4.83	4.70
Andorra[14]						9.36		4.69
Armenia[15]									3.82	4.10
Uruguay[15]									3.71	4.11
Bulgaria[14][15]						5.88	5.24	4.79	4.61	3.98
Seychelles[15]									8.88	3.75
India[14][15]						4.03	3.98	3.90	3.94	3.72
Azerbaijan[14][15]						5.90	5.29	3.74	3.54	3.03
Portugal[11]		1.5	1.5	1.5	1.7	4.11	3.94	3.83	3.41	2.99
Finland[11]	3.2	3.1	3.4	3.3	2.9	2.86	2.99	2.70	2.19	2.77
Israel[14]						2.02	2.06	2.67
Slovakia[15]									2.37	2.61
Malaysia[14][15]						1.92	2.12	2.49	2.83	2.59
Northern Ireland[8]	5.12	7.48	6.80	6.46	5.22	1.44	2.33	2.51
Hungary[11]		4.0	4.1	3.5	3.1	2.89	2.66	2.85	2.86	2.50
Croatia[14]						3.48	2.56	2.48