World - Homicide rate

Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female)

The value for Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female) in World was 2.17 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2.87 in 1993 and a minimum value of 2.17 in 2017.

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 2.60
1991 2.68
1992 2.77
1993 2.87
1994 2.85
1995 2.82
1996 2.74
1997 2.67
1998 2.67
1999 2.62
2000 2.65
2001 2.69
2002 2.66
2003 2.58
2004 2.56
2005 2.45
2006 2.38
2007 2.36
2008 2.28
2009 2.45
2010 2.39
2011 2.38
2012 2.37
2013 2.31
2014 2.31
2015 2.19
2016 2.23
2017 2.17
2018 2.17

Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male)

The value for Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male) in World was 9.33 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 11.84 in 1993 and a minimum value of 9.33 in 2018.

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
1990 10.90
1991 11.19
1992 11.51
1993 11.84
1994 11.82
1995 11.60
1996 11.24
1997 11.01
1998 10.95
1999 10.77
2000 10.89
2001 11.04
2002 11.02
2003 10.77
2004 10.36
2005 10.08
2006 9.93
2007 9.65
2008 9.74
2009 9.62
2010 9.60
2011 9.82
2012 9.90
2013 9.71
2014 9.77
2015 9.64
2016 9.70
2017 9.68
2018 9.33

Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people)

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
2012 6.20
2014 5.30
2015 5.30

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility