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Crime Statistics > Murders with firearms (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1   South Africa: 31,918 
# 2   Colombia: 21,898 
# 3   Thailand: 20,032 
# 4   United States: 9,369 
# 5   Philippines: 7,708 
# 6   Mexico: 2,606 
# 7   Slovakia: 2,356 
# 8   El Salvador: 1,441 
# 9   Zimbabwe: 598 
# 10   Peru: 442 
# 11   Germany: 269 
# 12   Czech Republic: 181 
# 13   Ukraine: 173 
# 14   Canada: 144 
# 15   Albania: 135 
# 16   Costa Rica: 131 
# 17   Azerbaijan: 120 
# 18   Poland: 111 
# 19   Uruguay: 109 
# 20   Spain: 97 
# 21   Portugal: 90 
# 22   Croatia: 76 
# 23   Switzerland: 68 
# 24   Bulgaria: 63 
# 25   Australia: 59 
# 26   Sweden: 58 
# 27   Bolivia: 52 
# 28   Japan: 47 
# 29   Slovenia: 39 
= 30   Hungary: 38 
= 30   Belarus: 38 
# 32   Latvia: 28 
# 33   Burma: 27 
# 34   Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 26 
# 35   Austria: 25 
# 36   Estonia: 21 
# 37   Moldova: 20 
# 38   Lithuania: 16 
= 39   United Kingdom: 14 
= 39   Denmark: 14 
# 41   Ireland: 12 
# 42   New Zealand: 10 
# 43   Chile: 9 
# 44   Cyprus: 4 
# 45   Morocco: 1 
= 46   Iceland: 0 
= 46   Luxembourg: 0 
= 46   Oman: 0 
Total: 100,693  
Weighted average: 2,097.8  



DEFINITION: Total recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.

SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)

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Aoife
9th November 2009 		Any statistics on gun crime in Ireland, Republic, North and whole? Particularly that not involving the I.R.A.?
Ian Graham
Staff Editor
2nd March 2005 		In the United States in 2001, firearms were used in 63 percent of murders, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey . The FBI reported that there were 15,980 murders and non-negligent homicides in the United States that year, so about 10,000 people were murdered with guns. Seventy-six percent of murder victims and 90 percent of murderers were male. In cases where the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim was known, only 24 percent of the murders were committed by a stranger. The most commonly cited circumstance leading to murder is an argument, which was reported in 28 percent of homicides. Seventeen percent of the time, murders occurred in connection with another felony, such as a robbery or a drug deal.
Dean
4th December 2004 		Do you have 2003 statistic for U.S. homicides, suicides,
and gun injuries? Thank you.
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