Number of homicides

UN Rankings Crime Statistics

“Intentional homicide” is defined as unlawful death purposefully inflicted on a person by another person

Number of homicides (number)

	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Guatemala		2,904	5,338	5,960	5,681	5,155	5,155	5,253	4,778	5,462	5,435	4,869	4,437	3,157	3,563	3,935
Yemen		697	945	1,099	1,375	1,616	1,703
Republic of Moldova	290	433	296	265	216	229	229	161	189	200	141	166	121	93	66	75	78
Turkmenistan	332	267	206	105	100	79	84	89	63
Albania		131	154	119	142	157	124	134	64	79	58	66	65	61	66	48	39
Pakistan	8,209	8,906	9,782	13,190	13,860	13,846	13,937	13,276	9,486	8,516	8,235	8,241	8,014	8,350	9,068	9,937	10,729
Spain	484	553	518	401	385	364	302	323	302	294	307	289	331	331	290	325	331
Sri Lanka	1,985		1,219	763	732	676	619	553	487	530	486	514	742
Viet Nam			1,053	1,336	1,358
Brunei Darussalam		4	2	1	1	4	2
Montenegro			22	15	21	17	10	20	17	28	15	14	23	18	15	16	5
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)			478	1,273	1,236	1,221	932	942	543	642	747	574	497	428	418	485	535
Myanmar	2,046	1,041	676	801	1,055	1,436	1,238	1,230	1,302	1,339	1,392	1,452	1,519	1,571	15,299	2,098
Malaysia	313	551	604	540	530	602	627	510	498	456	379	323	310	253	243
Uzbekistan	1,125	1,068	910					450	506	757	591	474	396	449	479
Honduras	496	3,176	3,212	6,236	7,104	7,172	6,431	5,891	5,148	5,150	3,864	3,709	4,078	3,613	3,931	3,659	3,347
Australia	374	362	259	231	248	243	245	243	236	227	208	221	225	221	193	220	226
Republic of North Macedonia		47	39	43	30	29	22	35	25	19	31	25	23	11	14	18	28
Tonga		1	4	1	2	1						10	1
Cameroon		459		999	835	880		212	861	787	1,004			1,202
Cabo Verde			44	39	53	2	54	65	46	62	38	31	33	36
Burkina Faso			63	123	20	115	121	130	117	209	240
Tajikistan	168	283	157	181	126				136					87
Czechia		191	108	103	86	105	90	81	88	65	66	0	91	64	46	88	83
El Salvador		3,551	3,882	3,987	4,371	2,594	2,513	3,921	6,656	5,276	3,962	3,346	2,398	1,341	1,085	496
Ecuador	892	1,833	2,121	2,624	2,343	1,922	1,725	1,310	1,050	959	970	994	1,187	1,372	2,496	4,886	8,221
Barbados	34	20	29	31	27	22	24	25	31	22	30	28	48	41	32	43
South Africa		21,758	18,528	15,893	15,554	16,213	17,023	17,805	18,673	19,016	20,336	21,022	21,325	19,972	25,181	27,272
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11	20	26	25	7	3				40	39	34	19	33	32	42
Turkey			3,305	3,064	3,061	3,216	3	7	2,235	2,704	2,541	2,161	2,045	2,144	2,165	2,282	2,817
Monaco			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Republic of Korea	208	370	411	485	403	435	352	377	375	356	301	309	297	308	270	275
Belize		41	81	129	124	145	99	123	119	138	142	143	134	102	125	113
Iceland		5	3	2	3	1	1	1	3	1	3	3	1	5	2	4
Sweden	95	96	83	91	81	68	87	87	112	106	113	108	111	124	113	116	121
Benin											126
Botswana			291	303				3						221	273
Kuwait			41	60	59	61					46	37	16	11
Namibia		380		314	308	388						476	319	303	315
Guinea-Bissau							81	65	48	64	21
Syrian Arab Republic		357	430	463								149	3,364
Slovakia	93	129	93	89	96	75	78	72	48	60	80	67	76	63	55	42	62
Malawi		700	200	520	343	279
Guyana	90	76	142	140	130	139	155	149	149	142	115	111	136	157	131	131
Chile			576	541	636	434	556	438	419	620	779	825	924	1,115	906	1,322
Croatia	137	101	68	62	49	51	46	36	37	44	46	24	33	40	33	31
Peru				780	1,617	1,968	2,013	2,076	2,247	2,435	2,487	2,452	2,385	1,903	2,853
Russian Federation	21,145	41,090	35,636	16,690	16,175	16,247	16,033	16,516	16,646	15,864	13,293	11,964	11,202	10,697	9,866
Sao Tome and Principe	8			6	6
Tuvalu			0	1	1	2							0
India	44,162	48,167	45,095	46,460	47,640	47,478	45,878	47,356	44,373	42,320	41,832	41,651	40,976	41,171	41,330	40,130
Seychelles				9	16	4	18	16	7	12	7	9	10	9	5	10
Costa Rica	139	249	335	527	474	407	411	477	557	578	603	585	563	570	588	656	906
France	1,355	1,051	976	796	856	784	777	792	1,012	779	710	696	753	692	734	821	887
Rwanda				291		256	359	428	293	392	470	285	404	472
Algeria			204	254	280	523	480	577	546	542	524	568	519	654	695	795	536
Bangladesh		3,343	3,592	3,988	3,966	4,114	4,393	4,514	4,035	3,591	3,549	3,830
Saint Lucia	14	23	41	44	46	39	33	34	28	30	49	37	46	52	70	66
Belgium	104	212	221	213	246	294	249	229	245	174	99				125
Solomon Islands			26
Iran (Islamic Republic of)							2,037	1,936				1,795
Maldives	1			6	3	10	3	2	4	18	34		3
Suriname		68	69				29	32	34	41	36	38	30	55	35	45
Serbia		228	147	132	129	110	139	118	100	116	86	105	88	84	77	74	89
Mauritius	20	26	5	33	32	28	35	19	21	21	33	37	27	35	34	29
Zambia	550	797		814	863	885	867	825	853
Mexico	14,493	10,737	9,921	25,757	27,213	25,967	23,063	20,010	20,762	24,559	32,079	36,685	36,661	36,773	35,700	33,287	32,252
Germany	931	1,364	1,044	793	738	659	682	716	682	963	813	788	623	782	695	686
Argentina			2,198	2,384	2,511	2,648	3,072	3,228	2,837	2,625	2,317	2,384	2,308	2,418	2,094	1,961
Belarus	508	1,013	922	401	373	340	333	340	326	307	240	226	225
Uruguay	206	214	190	205	199	267	260	268	293	267	283	421	394	341	306	383
Israel	147	154	169	150	147	128	127	108	110	104	123	116	147	147	173	147
Mozambique			1,089	875	849
Netherlands	135	180	174	144	143	145	125	123	104	94	132	100	125	121	126	143	125
Bahamas	45	74	52	94	127	110	119	122	146	111	122	91	95	73	119	128
Lesotho	519			764	712	641	658		897
Ghana			393	422	423	560	551	543	525	549	609	500	571	555	603	607
United States of America	23,438	15,586	848	14,722	14,661	14,856	14,319	14,164	15,883	17,413	17,294	16,374	16,669	21,570	23,062	22,243	19,796
Indonesia		2,204		1,058	1,467	1,456	1,386	1,277	1,491	1,292	1,150					847
Japan	676	678	643	465	442	429	370	395	363	362	306	334	319	318	285	289
Cyprus	5	8	20	8	9	22	12	11	15	13	7	15	15	15	16	8	11
South Sudan						1,504
Bosnia and Herzegovina	73	99	70	56	51	63	46	50	57	45	42	39	42	43	32	35	39
Philippines	9,281	5,735	69	8,645	8,489	8,484	9,153	9,756	9,646	11,155	8,268	5,651	4,764
Lithuania	180	370	372	219	211	202	198	159	172	153	100	92	94	101	72	67	75
Georgia	270	239	403	187	116	0	0	0		39	91	89	77
Slovenia	41	36	20	15	16	14	12	16	20	10	19	9	14	11	9	13	12
Jordan	120		67	128	142	168	164	183	169	148	133	94	122	108	114	126	113
Nicaragua	672	476	729	785	738	673	594	525	524	453	431	682	515		754
Brazil	29,301	45,375	47,593	52,289	52,233	56,388	56,845	59,733	58,184	61,208	63,788	55,980	44,073	47,722	45,562	44,367
Switzerland	110	69	45	52	46	45	57	41	57	45	45	50	46	47	42	42	53
Cambodia		571	448	331	268
Cuba		587	684	505	534	621	674	600	619	572	516	491	500
Kazakhstan	1,475	2,325	1,478	1,387	1,420	1,266	1,120	904	853		915		701	606	562	511
Nepal	354	635	878	813	679	642	606	558	598	617	630	659	555	617
Hungary	201	205	164	138	145	124	154	146	221	202	160	86	65	80	75	94	75
Central African Republic										913
New Zealand	63	52	61	43	39	41	46	43	48	50	35	55	114	52	57
Haiti				677	914	1,033	1,039	980	1,071	1,028		743		1,280	1,615	2,183	4,789
Andorra				0	1	0	0	0	0		3	2		2
Grenada		15	11	10	4	14	6	8	6	11	12	12	16	14	5	8
Canada	657	546	664	557	609	549	509	525	611	616	665	662	689	764	796	874
Finland	152	148	119	118	110	89	89	88	82	74	67	88	81	97	71	69	55
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	2,474	8,022	9,964	13,080	14,098	16,072		19,030	15,654	17,407	14,665	3,257	11,874	8,384	5,444	3,568
Dominica		2	8	15	6			9	9	16	19	13	13	15	10	19
Poland	679	855	455	384	422	409	305	287	298	260	287	273	253	266	273	270	311
San Marino		0	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	329	226	326	206	211	202	221	236	211	169	182	197	168	230	197	245
Saudi Arabia		173	297						472		419	224	285
Papua New Guinea		465	603	713
Lebanon				163	168	194	236	240	231	235	246	172	182	128
Luxembourg		4	4	10	4	0	1	4	5	5	2	3	4	3	4	10
Estonia	118	143	113	70	65	63	52	41	45	33	29	28	26	42	26	20	21
Singapore	47	41	12	19	16	11	17	14	14	18	11	9	12	10	6	7	4
Fiji	32		23	20	20	20	19	20						20
Panama	278	299	364	460	549	637	663	604	471	405	378	401	480	500	550	499
United Republic of Tanzania				3,888	4,149	4,092	3,697	516	3,746	3,439	3,147	2,734	2,719	2,286
Liberia				129	161	135
Portugal	155	116	135	124	114	122	144	92	100	66	76	81	73	81	82	75
Latvia		238	103	78	0	70	50	64	67	69	81	84	65	70	57	67	47
Qatar	4	1	6	4	4	7	9	9	6	12	12	10	11	12	9	2
Kenya			1,084	1,926	2,271	2,374	77	2,305	2,261	2,363	2,466	1,569	1,576	1,859	2,796	2,643
Norway	47	48	33	29	111	27	46	29	24	27	28	25	28	31	29	30	40
Afghanistan				983	1,231	1,948			3,367	2,318	2,424	2,474	2,712	2,570	1,613
Colombia	24,330	26,539	18,111	15,459	16,127	16,440	15,422	13,343	12,783	12,402	12,298	11,678	11,678	11,508	13,144	13,097
Italy	1,794	766	610	529	552	530	502	475	469	404	376	359	317	285	303	322
Zimbabwe	587		1,350	711		981						734	790	70	78	82	84
Oman			53	48	34	39	97	12	16	16	17	13	23	14	11	12	7
Saint Kitts and Nevis		3	8	21	34	18				30	23	23	12	10	14	11
Angola					1,055	1,217			1,254	1,196
China		26,858	20,770	13,410	12,015	11,286	10,640	10,083	9,200	8,634	7,990	7,525	7,379	7,157
Romania	796	556	433	266	205	212	218	325	339	306	255	250	244	281	244	247	212
Greece	104		132	176	184	166	153	107	93	84	86	99	78	78	89	117	86
Thailand	5,344	5,142	4,806	3,654	3,307	3,323	2,894	2,649	2,387	2,592	1,787	6,377	2	4
Uganda			2,492	3,160	3,753	4,066	3,857	4,473		4,482	4,735	4,497	4,718	4,460	3,912	4,143
Malta	4	4	4	4	3	12	7	6	4	5	9	8	5	7	2	8	3
Austria	89	82	54	61	77	81	61	42	44	54	70	86	77	65	65	79	80
Liechtenstein		0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	2
Bulgaria	227	332	199	148	128	141	109	112	126	79	103	92	83	69	89	76	74
Kyrgyzstan	603	430	401	487	453	370	338	252	256	320	274	223	16	10
Mongolia			398	239	266	199	208	213	214	184	191	196	205	205	206	202	203
Paraguay		995	887	741	657	649	604	578	617	669	541	497	554	481	525	472
Armenia	178	91	58	56	71	65	63	72	75	87	70	50	73	52	61
Tunisia			260	286		332				349	347		571	562
Bahrain			4	2	12	9	11	9	3	4	6	5	4	0	1	3
Egypt	269		522	1,839	2,703	2,207		2,890	1,711	1,532	1,360
Niger					831	788
Morocco	89	461	469	451	441	383	429	355	431	594	761	510	1,004	1,073	716	618	643
Sierra Leone			99	163	187	113			124					176
United Arab Emirates			38	67	51	69	57	61	60	66	44		64	65	44	71
Eswatini	163	128	139	208	172	104	102	118	112	116	130				151
Jamaica	544	887	1,674	1,447	1,133	1,102	1,202	1,005	1,209	1,354	1,647	1,289	1,340	1,333	1,474	1,508	1,400
Kiribati		3		4	11	8
Antigua and Barbuda	1	5	3	6		10			2	1	20	12	3	9	16	10
Denmark	41	58	32	42	46	47	48	74	62	56	71	58	50	48	37	58
Bhutan	20	18	11	16	32	33	24		12	9	13	9	8	19
Timor-Leste			46	39					49
Trinidad and Tobago		120	386	473	352	380	407	405	420	463	495	517	539	399	448	605
Samoa				16			6				7	13
Dominican Republic		1,210	2,394	2,474	2,513	2,268	1,978	1,810		1,616	1,216	1,068	1,026	961	1,172	1,389
Iraq	1,168			2,691	2,634	2,697	3,339
Burundi				347	349	500	520	564	461	635
Ireland	17	37	52	54	42	51	47	47	27	33	37	37	32	32	22	44	34
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	713	915	834	756	641	627	603	589	652	789	809	755	768	673
Ukraine	2,558	4,418	3,030	1,988		2,336		2,845			2,751	2,002	1,820	1,698	1,673
Ethiopia						8,153
Nigeria										63,400			44,200
Senegal									39
Palau									3	0	0	2
Micronesia (Federated States of)													1
Vanuatu													2	1
Djibouti										0	0	0
Eritrea						474
Madagascar				100	19	12	16	16	32
Mauritania												53	48	46

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