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World Murder Rates

The number of intentional homicides by country, and the rate of homicides per 100,000 population is shown in the table below.

  Counts Rates per 100,000
Country 2005 2006 2005 2006
Algeria 204 214 0.62 0.64
Argentina 2,115 2,052 5.46 5.24
Armenia 55 75 1.82 2.49
Austria 54 61 0.65 0.73
Azerbaijan 192 190 2.30 2.26
Bahrain 4 7 0.55 0.95
Bangladesh 3,431 4,123 2.24 2.64
Belarus 836 734 8.53 7.53
Belize 81 92 29.40 32.67
Bolivia 478 454 5.21 4.85
Bosnia and Herzegovina 70 73 1.79 1.86
Brunei Darussalam 0 2 0.00 0.52
Canada 663 606 2.05 1.86
Costa Rica 338 348 7.81 7.91
Croatia 68 74 1.49 1.62
Cyprus 16 14 1.91 1.66
Czech Republic 104 136 1.02 1.33
Denmark 53 29 0.98 0.53
Dominican Republic 1,666 1,537 17.59 15.99
Ecuador 2,121 2,385 16.24 18.07
Egypt 364 440 0.50 0.59
El Salvador 3,779 3,927 56.67 58.07
England and Wales 766 755 1.43 1.41
Estonia 113 91 8.41 6.79
Finland 113 112 2.15 2.13
Georgia 403 323 9.01 7.29
Germany 780 727 0.94 0.88
Greece 127 109 1.14 0.98
India 32,719 32,481 2.88 2.82
Ireland 65 67 1.57 1.59
Italy 610 625 1.04 1.06
Jordan 67 100 1.21 1.75
Kazakhstan 1,804 1,729 11.86 11.29
Kenya 2,313 2,090 6.50 5.72
Kyrgyzstan 491 446 9.44 8.48
Latvia 130 148 5.65 6.47
Lebanon 94 23 2.34 0.57
Liechtenstein 0 0 0.00 0.00
Lithuania 369 277 10.77 8.13
Malaysia 497 604 1.94 2.31
Malta 4 0 0.99 0.00
Mauritius 37 50 2.98 4.00
Mexico 11,372 11,558 10.91 10.97
Monaco 1 1 3.08 3.07
Mongolia 310 311 12.01 11.94
Montenegro 22 25 3.62 4.16
Morocco 160 162 0.52 0.53
Nepal 564 509 2.08 1.84
Netherlands 197 159 1.21 0.97
New Zealand 61 47 1.49 1.14
Nicaragua 436 465 7.98 8.41
Northern Ireland 26 23 1.51 1.33
Norway 33 33 0.71 0.71
Occupied Palestinian Territory 145 3.85
Panama 364 363 11.26 11.04
Paraguay 887 742 15.02 12.33
Philippines 3,240 3,296 3.83 3.82
Poland 555 490 1.45 1.28
Portugal 175 227 1.66 2.15
Republic of Moldova 226 184 5.83 4.80
Romania 457 438 2.11 2.03
Scotland 81 109 1.59 2.13
Serbia 142 144 1.44 1.46
Singapore 21 17 0.49 0.39
Slovakia 72 65 1.34 1.21
Slovenia 20 12 1.00 0.60
Spain 405 336 0.93 0.77
Sweden 127 115 1.41 1.27
Switzerland 75 60 1.01 0.80
Syrian Arab Republic 206 239 1.09 1.23
Tajikistan 157 228 2.40 3.43
Thailand 5,141 5,023 8.16 7.92
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 44 41 2.16 2.01
Turkey 3,082 2,999 4.22 4.06
Turkmenistan 162 142 3.35 2.90
Ukraine 3,030 2,958 6.46 6.35
United Arab Emirates 56 39 1.36 0.92
United States of America 16,740 17,034 5.58 5.62


These figures are collected by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime through its Survey of Crime Trends. Its definition of intentional homicide is “death deliberately inflicted on a person by another person, including infanticide”.