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How common is murder?

Homicide rate, 160 countries & territories. Intentional homicides per 100,000 people per year (UNODC). Homicide is the most comparable crime statistic between countries, because it is the least affected by differences in reporting.

lowest≥ 0.7 per 100k≥ 1 per 100k≥ 1.8 per 100k≥ 2.8 per 100k≥ 5.7 per 100k≥ 11.9 per 100k no data
Source: UN, World Population Prospects via Our World in Data· 2014 / 2024

The ranking

  1. 1 Saint Kitts and Nevis 64.2 per 100k 2023
  2. 2 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 51.3 per 100k 2023
  3. 3 Jamaica 49.4 per 100k 2023
  4. 4 Ecuador 45.7 per 100k 2023
  5. 5 South Africa 43.7 per 100k 2022
  6. 6 Haiti 41.2 per 100k 2023
  7. 7 Trinidad and Tobago 40.4 per 100k 2022
  8. 8 Saint Lucia 39 per 100k 2023
  9. 9 Bahamas 32.2 per 100k 2022
  10. 10 Honduras 31.4 per 100k 2023
  11. 11 Belize 28.1 per 100k 2022
  12. 12 Dominica 27.1 per 100k 2023
  13. 13 Colombia 24.9 per 100k 2023
  14. 14 Mexico 24.9 per 100k 2023
  15. 15 Guatemala 23.4 per 100k 2023
  16. 16 Brazil 19.3 per 100k 2023
  17. 17 Guyana 19.1 per 100k 2023
  18. 18 Costa Rica 17.7 per 100k 2023
  19. 19 Nigeria 15.7 per 100k 2023
  20. 20 Puerto Rico (United States) 15.1 per 100k 2024
  21. 21 Grenada 13.7 per 100k 2023
  22. 22 Venezuela 12.6 per 100k 2022
  23. 23 Eswatini 12.5 per 100k 2021
  24. 24 Panama 11.7 per 100k 2023
  25. 25 Botswana 11.4 per 100k 2021
  26. 26 Nicaragua 11.3 per 100k 2021
  27. 27 Uruguay 11.2 per 100k 2023
  28. 28 Palau 11.2 per 100k 2018
  29. 29 Namibia 11.2 per 100k 2021
  30. 30 Dominican Republic 10.9 per 100k 2023
  31. 31 Antigua and Barbuda 10.7 per 100k 2023
  32. 32 Uganda 9 per 100k 2023
  33. 33 Peru 8.6 per 100k 2021
  34. 34 Seychelles 8 per 100k 2022
  35. 35 El Salvador 7.9 per 100k 2022
  36. 36 Russia 7.8 per 100k 2024
  37. 37 Barbados 7.4 per 100k 2023
  38. 38 Cape Verde 7 per 100k 2020
  39. 39 Paraguay 6.8 per 100k 2023
  40. 40 Cameroon 6.8 per 100k 2022
  41. 41 Zimbabwe 6.8 per 100k 2022
  42. 42 Suriname 6.5 per 100k 2023
  43. 43 Chile 6.3 per 100k 2023
  44. 44 Samoa 6.3 per 100k 2018
  45. 45 Bermuda (United Kingdom) 6.2 per 100k 2023
  46. 46 United States 5.8 per 100k 2023
  47. 47 Burundi 5.6 per 100k 2016
  48. 48 Mongolia 5.6 per 100k 2024
  49. 49 Greenland (Denmark) 5.4 per 100k 2016
  50. 50 Zambia 5.2 per 100k 2015

Reference years differ by country (2014–2024); each row shows its own year.

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