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

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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1   South Africa: 0.719782 per 1,000 people 
# 2   Colombia: 0.509801 per 1,000 people 
# 3   Thailand: 0.312093 per 1,000 people 
# 4   Zimbabwe: 0.0491736 per 1,000 people 
# 5   Mexico: 0.0337938 per 1,000 people 
# 6   Belarus: 0.0321359 per 1,000 people 
# 7   Costa Rica: 0.0313745 per 1,000 people 
# 8   United States: 0.0279271 per 1,000 people 
# 9   Uruguay: 0.0245902 per 1,000 people 
# 10   Lithuania: 0.0230748 per 1,000 people 
# 11   Slovakia: 0.021543 per 1,000 people 
# 12   Czech Republic: 0.0207988 per 1,000 people 
# 13   Estonia: 0.0157539 per 1,000 people 
# 14   Latvia: 0.0131004 per 1,000 people 
# 15   Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 0.0127139 per 1,000 people 
# 16   Bulgaria: 0.00845638 per 1,000 people 
# 17   Portugal: 0.00795003 per 1,000 people 
# 18   Slovenia: 0.00596718 per 1,000 people 
# 19   Switzerland: 0.00534117 per 1,000 people 
# 20   Canada: 0.00502972 per 1,000 people 
# 21   Germany: 0.00465844 per 1,000 people 
# 22   Moldova: 0.00448934 per 1,000 people 
# 23   Hungary: 0.00439692 per 1,000 people 
# 24   Poland: 0.0043052 per 1,000 people 
# 25   Ukraine: 0.00368109 per 1,000 people 
# 26   Ireland: 0.00298805 per 1,000 people 
# 27   Australia: 0.00293678 per 1,000 people 
# 28   Denmark: 0.00257732 per 1,000 people 
# 29   Spain: 0.0024045 per 1,000 people 
# 30   Azerbaijan: 0.00227503 per 1,000 people 
# 31   New Zealand: 0.00173482 per 1,000 people 
# 32   United Kingdom: 0.00102579 per 1,000 people 
Weighted average: 0.1 per 1,000 people  



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. 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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Francis Tapon
1st July 2010
Why is Russia not on this page?

Do they not report such statistics?
HANTAM
24th June 2010
Never mind firearms, the average number of people (all races)killed in SA is 49 per 100 000;
the number for the Cape Flats (mostly coloured, due to gangster environment) is 108 per 100 000;
and for whites it is 130 per 100 000.

The death rate among whites in apartheid SA was the same as (recent) Europe, namely 2 per 200 000. That's the main reason for the Afrikaner-Boers wanting to govern themselves in a separate state.We are graded 5 on the 8-point scale of the International Genocide Watch.
huh ?
24th May 2010
How can south Africa has 0.71 murders with guns per 1000 when there are only 37 per 1000 murders ? Nationmaster needs to get an update.
Buell+Forum
13th May 2010
Firearm murders per capita for South Africa and Thailand exceed total murders per capita.

One of the two is inaccurate.

Buell Forum: www.BadWeatherBikers.com
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