List of countries by firearm-related homicide rates
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This is a list of countries by firearm-related homicide rate per 100,000 population by year
Homicide figures may include justifiable homicides along with criminal homicides, depending upon jurisdiction and reporting standards. Not included are accidental deaths, or justifiable deaths by any means other than by firearm.
Table of homicide rates from firearms
[edit]All the data in this table is from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).[2] There are 2 countries in the UNODC dataset that are missing from the table below: Egypt (2.062 rate in 2011) and India (0.297 rate in 2012).
- Asterisk (*) in Location column indicates a Crime in LOCATION article.
Location | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
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Albania * | 1.126 | 1.751 | 1.430 | 1.635 | 1.599 | 1.528 | 1.493 | 1.596 | 2.427 |
Algeria | 0.096 | 0.140 | 0.133 | 0.084 | 0.091 | 0.129 | 0.136 | 0.217 | 0.106 |
Andorra | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Antigua and Barbuda * | 8.532 | 4.291 | 3.238 | 2.171 | 3.274 | 10.975 | 4.417 | 1.112 | |
Argentina * | 2.305 | 2.418 | 2.685 | 2.521 | 2.733 | 2.826 | 3.655 | ||
Armenia * | 0.674 | 0.212 | 0.631 | 0.523 | 0.903 | 0.277 | |||
Australia * | 0.103 | 0.096 | 0.078 | 0.150 | 0.100 | 0.094 | 0.132 | 0.113 | 0.153 |
Austria * | 0.145 | 0.179 | 0.135 | 0.101 | 0.090 | 0.182 | 0.103 | 0.058 | 0.105 |
Azerbaijan * | 0.165 | 0.175 | 0.186 | 0.148 | 0.179 | 0.180 | |||
Bahamas | 28.538 | 25.496 | 14.269 | 19.528 | 20.154 | 26.816 | 23.739 | 28.521 | 26.983 |
Barbados | 11.717 | 6.046 | 9.263 | 11.064 | 6.436 | 8.238 | 5.742 | 6.832 | 6.126 |
Belarus | 0.206 | ||||||||
Belize * | 22.454 | 22.748 | 20.004 | 23.388 | 25.127 | 21.885 | 22.324 | 19.729 | 20.151 |
Bermuda | 4.674 | 3.124 | 0 | 4.719 | 4.741 | 7.928 | 1.584 | 3.157 | |
Bhutan * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Bolivia * | 0.384 | 0.306 | 0.184 | 0.272 | 0.267 | 0.376 | 0.169 | 0.099 | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.495 | 0.428 | 0.362 | 0.625 | 0.441 | 0.669 | 0.546 | 0.908 | 0.644 |
Brazil * | 15.945 | ||||||||
Bulgaria * | 0.237 | 0.152 | 0.287 | 0.244 | |||||
Cape Verde * | 1.926 | 2.124 | 5.552 | 2.717 | 4.761 | ||||
Canada * | 0.889 | 0.781 | 0.736 | 0.704 | 0.678 | 0.730 | 0.617 | 0.501 | 0.438 |
Chile * | 3.637 | 2.221 | 2.617 | 1.854 | 2.016 | 1.818 | 1.532 | 1.466 | 1.442 |
Colombia * | 18.127 | 18.252 | 16.344 | 16.149 | 16.470 | 18.357 | 18.528 | 19.682 | 21.126 |
Costa Rica * | 8.304 | 7.905 | 7.474 | 7.955 | 8.711 | 7.765 | 7.865 | 6.750 | |
Croatia | 0.223 | 0.172 | 0.268 | 0.363 | 0.120 | 0.572 | 0.331 | 0.165 | 0.373 |
Cyprus * | 0.160 | 0.402 | 0.242 | 0.163 | 0.164 | 0.165 | 0.501 | 0.505 | 0.255 |
Czech Republic * | 0.095 | 0.076 | 0.047 | 0.085 | 0.076 | 0.066 | 0.019 | 0.095 | |
Denmark * | 0.052 | 0.139 | 0.175 | ||||||
Dominica | 1.381 | 9.723 | 9.800 | 9.884 | 8.522 | 2.854 | 0 | 0 | |
Dominican Republic * | 6.724 | 6.116 | 4.409 | 4.264 | 4.914 | 5.767 | 5.918 | 11.116 | |
Ecuador * | 22.565 | 10.248 | 4.588 | 3.759 | 2.727 | 3.025 | 2.731 | 3.365 | 4.355 |
Egypt * | |||||||||
El Salvador * | 4.782 | 11.181 | 14.715 | 27.929 | 41.441 | 47.984 | 68.106 | 88.845 | 48.393 |
Eswatini | 1.426 | ||||||||
Finland * | 0.091 | 0.218 | 0.109 | 0.164 | 0.219 | 0.201 | |||
France * | 0.100 | 0.142 | |||||||
Georgia | 0.848 | 0.768 | |||||||
Germany * | 0.065 | 0.048 | 0.045 | 0.052 | 0.069 | ||||
Greece * | 0.318 | 0.268 | 0.257 | 0.236 | 0.329 | 0.206 | 0.242 | ||
Grenada | 0 | 1.617 | 0 | 2.462 | 0 | 0.834 | 0 | ||
Guatemala * | 3.436 | 3.554 | 6.197 | 6.712 | 8.457 | 33.380 | 26.270 | ||
Guyana * | 2.983 | 3.387 | 4.131 | 2.546 | 2.882 | 4.216 | 5.695 | ||
Holy See | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Honduras * | 28.721 | 26.962 | 30.194 | 27.112 | 29.158 | 41.868 | 42.294 | 53.364 | |
Hong Kong * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.027 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.014 |
Hungary * | 0.040 | 0.021 | 0.072 | 0.031 | 0.123 | 0 | 0.041 | 0.030 | |
Iceland | 0.270 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.298 | 0 | 0 | |
India * | |||||||||
Iran * | 0.369 | 0.543 | |||||||
Italy * | 0.202 | 0.154 | 0.171 | ||||||
Jamaica * | 44.706 | 44.206 | 39.639 | 39.769 | 36.097 | 47.857 | 39.248 | 34.855 | 25.677 |
Japan * | 0.003 | 0.003 | 0.002 | ||||||
Jordan * | 0.425 | 0.242 | 0.311 | 0.449 | 0.335 | 0.460 | |||
Kazakhstan * | 0.105 | 0.349 | 0.261 | ||||||
Liechtenstein | 0 | ||||||||
Lithuania | 0.106 | 0.070 | 0.139 | 0.241 | 0.102 | ||||
Luxembourg | 0.180 | ||||||||
Macau * | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Malta | 0 | 0.776 | 0.596 | 0.203 | 0.417 | 0 | 0.438 | 0.672 | |
Mauritius * | 0 | 0.154 | |||||||
Mexico * | 17.497 | 19.333 | 20.346 | 20.679 | 20.723 | 17.842 | 13.106 | 10.654 | 10.058 |
Monaco | 0 | ||||||||
Mongolia | 0.090 | 0.061 | 0 | 0.190 | 0.065 | 0.099 | 0.101 | 0.276 | |
Montenegro * | 1.914 | 1.115 | 1.908 | 2.062 | 1.109 | 1.739 | 2.527 | 1.577 | 1.892 |
Morocco | 0.024 | 0.005 | 0.094 | 0.025 | 0.014 | 0.009 | 0.043 | 0.006 | |
Netherlands | 0.216 | 0.194 | 0.184 | 0.190 | 0.185 | 0.209 | 0.152 | 0.182 | 0.236 |
New Zealand * | 1.230 | 0.248 | 0.232 | 0.171 | 0.152 | 0.133 | |||
Nicaragua | 2.000 | 3.286 | 6.117 | 2.886 | 3.302 | ||||
North Macedonia | 0.238 | 0.189 | 0.568 | 0.758 | 0.237 | 0.854 | 1.092 | ||
Northern Ireland * | 0.157 | 0.210 | 0.158 | 0.264 | 0.106 | 0.107 | 0.322 | 0.270 | 0.109 |
Oman * | 0.066 | 0.065 | 0.022 | 0 | 0.045 | 0 | |||
Palestine * | 0.370 | ||||||||
Panama * | 10.227 | 9.361 | 8.624 | 7.058 | 6.494 | 7.078 | 8.087 | 11.289 | |
Paraguay * | 4.803 | 4.351 | 5.360 | 4.609 | 5.491 | 6.670 | 6.442 | 5.746 | |
Peru * | 2.937 | 2.288 | 3.357 | 3.113 | 3.312 | 3.416 | 4.194 | ||
Philippines * | 1.103 | 1.567 | 3.050 | 4.286 | |||||
Puerto Rico * | 18.382 | 15.898 | 17.697 | ||||||
Moldova * | 0.227 | 0.289 | 0.255 | 0.283 | 0.120 | ||||
Saint Kitts and Nevis * | 25.207 | 12.594 | 18.863 | 33.500 | 39.761 | 60.685 | |||
Saint Lucia * | 30.580 | 26.162 | 22.317 | 17.359 | 12.367 | 18.062 | |||
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 20.128 | 17.203 | 9.531 | 20.897 | 22.738 | 27.368 | |||
Serbia * | 0.235 | 0.151 | 0.272 | 0.351 | 0.552 | 0.415 | 0.173 | 0.186 | |
Slovakia * | 0.071 | 0.055 | 0.055 | 0.275 | 0.110 | 0.184 | 0.276 | 0.055 | 0.240 |
Slovenia * | 0.142 | 0 | 0 | 0.284 | 0.095 | 0.143 | 0.048 | 0.048 | 0.193 |
South Korea * | 0 | ||||||||
Scotland * | 0.018 | 0.055 | 0.018 | 0.055 | 0.037 | 0.019 | 0.019 | 0 | |
Spain * | 0.105 | 0.082 | 0.078 | 0.112 | 0.105 | 0.135 | 0.084 | 0.097 | 0.121 |
Sri Lanka * | 0.074 | 0.343 | 0.237 | 0.224 | 0.211 | 0.240 | |||
Suriname * | 3.398 | 2.610 | 2.141 | 1.666 | 3.369 | 1.362 | 2.580 | ||
Sweden * | 0.597 | 0.430 | 0.463 | 0.438 | 0.423 | 0.398 | 0.301 | 0.335 | 0.287 |
Switzerland * | 0.137 | 0.092 | 0.104 | 0.128 | 0.153 | 0.166 | 0.191 | 0.205 | 0.085 |
Tajikistan | 0.063 | ||||||||
Tanzania | 0.103 | 0.152 | |||||||
Thailand * | 1.464 | 1.805 | |||||||
Trinidad and Tobago * | 20.551 | 28.488 | 27.647 | 25.497 | 23.285 | 20.956 | |||
Uganda | 0.661 | 0.561 | 0.426 | 0.431 | |||||
United Arab Emirates * | 0.043 | 0 | |||||||
United Kingdom * | 0.047 | 0.054 | 0.048 | 0.055 | 0.041 | 0.037 | |||
United States * | 4.054 | 3.152 | 3.156 | 3.342 | 3.178 | 2.804 | 2.581 | ||
Uruguay | 6.807 | 5.370 | 6.387 | 7.175 | 8.696 | 4.968 | 4.745 | 5.877 | 4.806 |
Uzbekistan | 0.012 | 0.009 | 0.022 | 0.035 |
Table. Latest available year
[edit]All the data in this table is from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).[2] This format allows for easier sorting, ranking, and comparison of countries.
- Asterisk (*) in Location column indicates a Crime in LOCATION article.
Location | Rate | Year |
---|---|---|
Albania * | 1.126 | 2022 |
Algeria | 0.096 | 2022 |
Andorra | 0 | 2015 |
Antigua and Barbuda * | 8.532 | 2022 |
Argentina * | 2.305 | 2022 |
Armenia * | 0.674 | 2019 |
Australia * | 0.103 | 2022 |
Austria * | 0.145 | 2022 |
Azerbaijan * | 0.165 | 2021 |
Bahamas | 28.538 | 2022 |
Barbados | 11.717 | 2022 |
Belarus | 0.206 | 2014 |
Belize * | 22.454 | 2022 |
Bermuda | 4.674 | 2021 |
Bhutan * | 0 | 2020 |
Bolivia * | 0.384 | 2022 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.495 | 2022 |
Brazil * | 15.945 | 2020 |
Bulgaria * | 0.237 | 2017 |
Cape Verde * | 1.926 | 2018 |
Canada * | 0.889 | 2022 |
Chile * | 3.637 | 2022 |
Colombia * | 18.127 | 2022 |
Costa Rica * | 8.304 | 2021 |
Croatia | 0.223 | 2022 |
Cyprus * | 0.160 | 2022 |
Czech Republic * | 0.095 | 2022 |
Denmark * | 0.052 | 2018 |
Dominica | 1.381 | 2021 |
Dominican Republic * | 6.724 | 2022 |
Ecuador * | 22.565 | 2022 |
Egypt * | 2.062 | 2011 |
El Salvador * | 4.782 | 2022 |
Eswatini | 1.426 | 2021 |
Finland * | 0.091 | 2019 |
France * | 0.100 | 2017 |
Georgia | 0.848 | 2018 |
Germany * | 0.065 | 2020 |
Greece * | 0.318 | 2022 |
Grenada | 0 | 2021 |
Guatemala * | 3.436 | 2021 |
Guyana * | 2.983 | 2021 |
Holy See | 0 | 2022 |
Honduras * | 28.721 | 2021 |
Hong Kong * | 0 | 2022 |
Hungary * | 0.040 | 2022 |
Iceland | 0.270 | 2021 |
India * | 0.297 | 2012 |
Iran * | 0.369 | 2015 |
Italy * | 0.202 | 2022 |
Jamaica * | 44.706 | 2022 |
Japan * | 0.003 | 2019 |
Jordan * | 0.425 | 2022 |
Kazakhstan * | 0.105 | 2020 |
Liechtenstein | 0 | 2016 |
Lithuania | 0.106 | 2020 |
Luxembourg | 0.180 | 2014 |
Macau * | 0 | 2015 |
Malta | 0 | 2021 |
Mauritius * | 0 | 2022 |
Mexico * | 17.497 | 2022 |
Monaco | 0 | 2015 |
Mongolia | 0.090 | 2021 |
Montenegro * | 1.914 | 2022 |
Morocco | 0.024 | 2022 |
Netherlands | 0.216 | 2022 |
New Zealand * | 1.230 | 2019 |
Nicaragua | 2.000 | 2021 |
North Macedonia | 0.238 | 2021 |
Northern Ireland * | 0.157 | 2022 |
Oman * | 0.066 | 2022 |
Palestine * | 0.370 | 2021 |
Panama * | 10.227 | 2021 |
Paraguay * | 4.803 | 2021 |
Peru * | 2.937 | 2020 |
Philippines * | 1.103 | 2019 |
Puerto Rico * | 18.382 | 2016 |
Moldova * | 0.227 | 2020 |
Saint Kitts and Nevis * | 25.207 | 2021 |
Saint Lucia * | 30.580 | 2022 |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 20.128 | 2021 |
Scotland * | 0.018 | 2021 |
Serbia * | 0.235 | 2022 |
Slovakia * | 0.071 | 2022 |
Slovenia * | 0.142 | 2022 |
South Korea * | 0 | 2021 |
Spain * | 0.105 | 2022 |
Sri Lanka * | 0.074 | 2019 |
Suriname * | 3.398 | 2022 |
Sweden * | 0.597 | 2022 |
Switzerland * | 0.137 | 2022 |
Tajikistan | 0.063 | 2020 |
Tanzania | 0.103 | 2015 |
Thailand * | 1.464 | 2016 |
Trinidad and Tobago * | 20.551 | 2020 |
Uganda | 0.661 | 2021 |
United Arab Emirates * | 0.043 | 2021 |
United Kingdom * | 0.047 | 2021 |
United States * | 4.054 | 2020 |
Uruguay | 6.807 | 2022 |
Uzbekistan | 0.012 | 2019 |
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[edit]See also
[edit]- Firearm death rates in the United States by state
- List of countries by intentional homicide rate
- List of countries by suicide rate
- List of cities by murder rate
- List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate
- List of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate
- List of United States cities by crime rate (250,000+)
- Percent of households with guns by country
- United States cities by crime rate (100,000–250,000)
- United States cities by crime rate (60,000-100,000)
- Index of gun politics articles
- Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country
References
[edit]- ^ Homicide rate from firearms, 2005 to 2021. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime – processed by Our World in Data. Click the download button for 2005-2021 data.
- ^ a b "dp-intentional-homicide-victims. dataUNODC". United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Use dataset link to download csv file. It is more complete than the table on the entry page.
- ^ Fox, Kara; Shveda, Krystina; Croker, Natalie; Chacon, Marco (November 26, 2021). "How US gun culture stacks up with the world". CNN. Archived from the original on November 26, 2021.
CNN's attribution: Developed countries are defined based on the UN classification, which includes 36 countries. Source: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (Global Burden of Disease 2019), Small Arms Survey (Civilian Firearm Holdings 2017)
- ^ Lopez, German (26 May 2022). "America's Gun Problem". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022.
Source: Jason R. Silva, William Paterson University
- ^ Grinshteyn, Erin; Hemenway, David (March 2016). "Violent Death Rates: The US Compared with Other High-income OECD Countries, 2010". The American Journal of Medicine. 129 (3): 266–273. doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.10.025. PMID 26551975. (Table 4). (PDF [https://web.archive.org/web/20190202104515/https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)01030-X/pdf Archived 2019-02-02 at the Wayback Machine).
- ^ "Home >> Intentional Homicide Victims". dataunodc.un.org. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
External links
[edit]- Systematic comparison of 195 countries and territories for the period from 1990 to 2016: Naghavi, Mohsen; et al. (28 August 2018). "Global Mortality From Firearms, 1990-2016". JAMA. 320 (8): 792–814. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.10060. ISSN 0098-7484. PMC 6143020. PMID 30167700. [1]
- "Murder Victims by Weapon, 2013–2017". Uniform Crime Reports for 2017. FBI.
- "Fatal Injury Data". Centers for Disease Control. January 18, 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- "Fatal Injury Mapping". Centers for Disease Control. Archived from the original on 2012-01-25. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- "Statistics and Data: Crime Data". dataunodc.un.org. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
- Historic data can be found on the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS) page.
- "International Homicide Comparisons". GunCite.com. May 20, 2006. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- "Global Impacts of Gun Violence". gunpolicy.org. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
- "Deaths Due to Injury by Firearms per 100,000 Population". StateHealthFacts.org. Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- Greg Barrow (2000-02-15). "SA gun deaths rise". BBC News.
- "Victims of crime survey 2011" (PDF). statssa.gov.za. Statistics, South African Government.
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Fast Facts - Suicide and Self Injury, Injuries, and Homicide
- "European Detailed Mortality Database". data.euro.who.int. World Health Organization, Regional office for Europe.
- "CoDQL (Cause of Death Query online)". World Health Organization. Archived from the original on January 15, 2015. —Causes of death by year from countries that have reported to the WHO. Firearm deaths correspond to ICD-10 codes W32-W34, Accidental discharge of firearm; X72-X74, Intentional self-harm by firearm; X93-X95, Assault by firearm; Y22-Y24, Firearm discharge, undetermined intent.
- Krug, EG; Powell, KE; Dahlberg, LL (1998). "Firearm-related deaths in the United States and 35 other high- and upper-middle-income countries". International Journal of Epidemiology. 27 (2): 214–221. doi:10.1093/ije/27.2.214. PMID 9602401. —Contains statistics from 36 countries between 1990 and 1995.
- ^ Naghavi, Mohsen; et al. (28 August 2018). "Global Mortality From Firearms, 1990-2016". JAMA. 320 (8): 792–814. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.10060. ISSN 0098-7484. PMC 6143020. PMID 30167700.