Hong Kong SAR, China - Homicide rate

Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female)

The value for Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female) in Hong Kong SAR, China was 0.402 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 15 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.978 in 2013 and a minimum value of 0.234 in 2015.

Definition: Intentional homicides, female are estimates of unlawful female 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.

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Year Value
2003 0.635
2004 0.573
2005 0.370
2006 0.507
2007 0.307
2008 0.691
2009 0.684
2010 0.515
2011 0.242
2012 0.320
2013 0.978
2014 0.341
2015 0.234
2016 0.283
2017 0.381
2018 0.402

Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male)

The value for Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male) in Hong Kong SAR, China was 0.942 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 15 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.942 in 2018 and a minimum value of 0.215 in 2007.

Definition: Intentional homicides, male are estimates of unlawful male 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.

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Year Value
2003 0.920
2004 0.768
2005 0.646
2006 0.523
2007 0.215
2008 0.337
2009 0.673
2010 0.488
2011 0.244
2012 0.455
2013 0.757
2014 0.422
2015 0.390
2016 0.507
2017 0.267
2018 0.942

Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people)

The value for Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people) in Hong Kong SAR, China was 0.65 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2.39 in 1990 and a minimum value of 0.24 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.

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Year Value
1990 2.39
1991 1.59
1992 1.84
1993 1.45
1994 1.60
1995 1.20
1996 1.24
1997 1.62
1998 1.00
1999 0.97
2000 0.65
2001 0.99
2002 1.03
2003 0.77
2004 0.67
2005 0.50
2006 0.51
2007 0.26
2008 0.52
2009 0.68
2010 0.50
2011 0.24
2012 0.38
2013 0.87
2014 0.38
2015 0.31
2016 0.39
2017 0.33
2018 0.65

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility