St. Lucia - Homicide rate

Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female)

The value for Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female) in St. Lucia was 4.33 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8.21 in 2011 and a minimum value of 0.00 in 1993.

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
1990 7.12
1991 4.21
1992 4.16
1993 0.00
1994 4.06
1995 4.01
1996 1.32
1997 6.50
1998 2.57
1999 2.53
2000 3.09
2002 8.16
2003 2.59
2004 4.72
2009 6.96
2010 6.22
2011 8.21
2012 7.05
2013 5.55
2014 0.00
2015 5.50
2016 2.19
2017 4.36
2018 4.33

Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male)

The value for Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male) in St. Lucia was 39.07 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 54.98 in 2017 and a minimum value of 9.83 in 1994.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1990 13.27
1991 10.18
1992 15.80
1993 11.37
1994 9.83
1995 18.04
1996 15.07
1997 10.81
1998 15.99
1999 18.41
2000 26.71
2002 45.25
2003 43.05
2004 41.73
2009 38.85
2010 44.94
2011 44.76
2012 37.56
2013 32.03
2014 38.72
2015 26.07
2016 31.58
2017 54.98
2018 39.07

Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people)

The value for Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people) in St. Lucia was 21.44 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29.29 in 2017 and a minimum value of 5.58 in 1993.

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
1990 10.14
1991 7.14
1992 9.88
1993 5.58
1994 6.89
1995 10.89
1996 8.06
1997 8.61
1998 9.15
1999 10.32
2000 14.67
2001 21.49
2002 26.35
2003 22.43
2004 22.86
2005 25.09
2006 26.00
2007 17.30
2008 22.94
2009 22.65
2010 25.27
2011 26.21
2012 22.08
2013 18.59
2014 19.07
2015 15.63
2016 16.66
2017 29.29
2018 21.44

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility