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Crime Statistics > Murders (per capita) (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1   Colombia: 0.617847 per 1,000 people 
# 2   South Africa: 0.496008 per 1,000 people 
# 3   Jamaica: 0.324196 per 1,000 people 
# 4   Venezuela: 0.316138 per 1,000 people 
# 5   Russia: 0.201534 per 1,000 people 
# 6   Mexico: 0.130213 per 1,000 people 
# 7   Estonia: 0.107277 per 1,000 people 
# 8   Latvia: 0.10393 per 1,000 people 
# 9   Lithuania: 0.102863 per 1,000 people 
# 10   Belarus: 0.0983495 per 1,000 people 
# 11   Ukraine: 0.094006 per 1,000 people 
# 12   Papua New Guinea: 0.0838593 per 1,000 people 
# 13   Kyrgyzstan: 0.0802565 per 1,000 people 
# 14   Thailand: 0.0800798 per 1,000 people 
# 15   Moldova: 0.0781145 per 1,000 people 
# 16   Zimbabwe: 0.0749938 per 1,000 people 
# 17   Seychelles: 0.0739025 per 1,000 people 
# 18   Zambia: 0.070769 per 1,000 people 
# 19   Costa Rica: 0.061006 per 1,000 people 
# 20   Poland: 0.0562789 per 1,000 people 
# 21   Georgia: 0.0511011 per 1,000 people 
# 22   Uruguay: 0.045082 per 1,000 people 
# 23   Bulgaria: 0.0445638 per 1,000 people 
# 24   United States: 0.042802 per 1,000 people 
# 25   Armenia: 0.0425746 per 1,000 people 
# 26   India: 0.0344083 per 1,000 people 
# 27   Yemen: 0.0336276 per 1,000 people 
# 28   Dominica: 0.0289733 per 1,000 people 
# 29   Azerbaijan: 0.0285642 per 1,000 people 
# 30   Finland: 0.0283362 per 1,000 people 
# 31   Slovakia: 0.0263303 per 1,000 people 
# 32   Romania: 0.0250784 per 1,000 people 
# 33   Portugal: 0.0233769 per 1,000 people 
# 34   Malaysia: 0.0230034 per 1,000 people 
# 35   Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 0.0229829 per 1,000 people 
# 36   Mauritius: 0.021121 per 1,000 people 
# 37   Hungary: 0.0204857 per 1,000 people 
# 38   Korea, South: 0.0196336 per 1,000 people 
# 39   Slovenia: 0.0179015 per 1,000 people 
# 40   France: 0.0173272 per 1,000 people 
# 41   Czech Republic: 0.0169905 per 1,000 people 
# 42   Iceland: 0.0168499 per 1,000 people 
# 43   Australia: 0.0150324 per 1,000 people 
# 44   Canada: 0.0149063 per 1,000 people 
# 45   Chile: 0.014705 per 1,000 people 
# 46   United Kingdom: 0.0140633 per 1,000 people 
# 47   Italy: 0.0128393 per 1,000 people 
# 48   Spain: 0.0122456 per 1,000 people 
# 49   Germany: 0.0116461 per 1,000 people 
# 50   Tunisia: 0.0112159 per 1,000 people 
# 51   Netherlands: 0.0111538 per 1,000 people 
# 52   New Zealand: 0.0111524 per 1,000 people 
# 53   Denmark: 0.0106775 per 1,000 people 
# 54   Norway: 0.0106684 per 1,000 people 
# 55   Ireland: 0.00946215 per 1,000 people 
# 56   Switzerland: 0.00921351 per 1,000 people 
# 57   Indonesia: 0.00910842 per 1,000 people 
# 58   Greece: 0.0075928 per 1,000 people 
# 59   Hong Kong: 0.00550804 per 1,000 people 
# 60   Japan: 0.00499933 per 1,000 people 
# 61   Saudi Arabia: 0.00397456 per 1,000 people 
# 62   Qatar: 0.00115868 per 1,000 people 
Weighted average: 0.1 per 1,000 people  



DEFINITION: Total recorded intentional homicides, completed. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.

SOURCE: Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period 1998 - 2000 (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)

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d.
6th July 2009 		This list looks weird. I checked my country's data and in 2008 in Poland there were 759 murders per 38 million people. That's around 0,02 per 1000 (0,01971 if you consider an exact number of people).
Anonymous
4th July 2009 		Everyone talks about banning guns. Why don't they suggest we ban murder?
Jesper
2nd July 2009 		I am living in Sweden but are kids not afraid if they play on the street or go to school on their bike in the USA ?
Daniel Antonio
8th June 2009 		How do you know wether widespread gun ownership causes more crime than prevents it? Gun ownership may not be an issue in Spain but it's worth considering it in Mexico since right now only criminals have access to it.
Nando
5th June 2009 		It is funny to hear people asking for guns in US to defend and to feel "safe" and then see this statistics and see how good countries with and without guns do.

Keep asking for guns americans, you will never know what peace is.
Maria (Brazil)
5th May 2009 		Thomas I think it would be more appropriate for you to say: compare ourselves to other "developed" countries, rather than "civilized" countries. Remember that most of Americans cant even speak a second language.. and even developing countries are civilized!!
Michael in LH
3rd May 2009 		Thomas - guns are not available to nutcases at Walmart or any other stores. Crazy people are forbidden by law from purchasing firearms.
arif (pakistan)
26th July 2008 		you must include murders committed by US in Iraq and Afghanistan this be added murders committed in US and u will be shocked that US is no 1 in murder list
Thomas Schneider (Austria)
22nd October 2007 		Hi Guys here you have a more current updated list its till 2006. Colombia isn´t longer leading still leader with murder is a south American followed by south Africa again.
And there you will see which rank US is even really now.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate - 263k -
Tomás (Panama)
17th October 2007 		You should try to make a map with at least 2005 or 2004 data. Information for 1998 to 2000 isn't going to help you detect current trends in 2007 at all, for research or other reasons.
Max (Canada)
28th September 2007 		Josh from texas, you obviously have never been outside of the usa to see how bad the world really is. News from other nations is not broadcast in the usa except for a few things. Once you go outside of the usa, you will learn what violence, danger, chaos and terror really are, the usa only has a few areas that even come close to how a lot of areas in the rest of the world are every day.
Thomas L (Ann Arbor MI USA)
19th April 2007 		For those that try to defend the murder rate of the USA saying we are still better than Irak and Afghanistan - you seem to be missing the point - we should try to compare ourselves to other civilized countries like Japan, Greece, Switzerland, Ireland, Norway. Stop making guns available to every nutcase at Walmart!
R.R
1st April 2006 		Nation Master needs to update the stats.

In 2005, Trinidad and Tobago, with a population of a little over 1m (1,070,000 according to the CIA Factbook) had 387 murders or 0.362 per 1,000.

Up to March 2006, there have already been 110 murders in T&T, a trend that will eclipse the record 387 set last year.
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