Namibia - Homicide rate

Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people)

The value for Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people) in Namibia was 17.68 as of 2012. As the graph below shows, over the past 17 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.50 in 1998 and a minimum value of 14.28 in 2011.

Definition: Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.

Source: UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.

See also:

Year Value
1995 22.91
1996 21.22
1997 19.26
1998 23.50
1999 21.49
2000 21.17
2001 19.36
2002 18.69
2004 18.45
2008 17.32
2009 18.64
2010 14.82
2011 14.28
2012 17.68

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility