Assaults, Kidnapping, Robbery, Sexual Rape - Assault

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The United States of America is the top country by assault in the world. As of 2018, assault in the United States of America was 807,400 that accounts for 31.91% of the world's assault. The top 5 countries (others are Brazil, Colombia, Germany, and Argentina) account for 72.20% of it. The world's total assault was estimated at 2.53 million in 2018.

'Assault' means physical attack against the body of another person resulting in serious bodily injury; excluding indecent/sexual assault; threats and slapping/punching. 'Assault' leading to death should also be excluded. (UN-CTS M3.2)

Assault (number)

	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Burundi		304	499	455	431	549
Kenya	12,715	14,078	14,366	14,534	13,674	13,949	14,921	15,705	15,968	17,512
Rwanda		2,004	2,526	3,177	3,299
Mozambique	1,272
Algeria	32,920	41,381	45,548	52,287	54,472	53,853	49,091
Zimbabwe	92,510
Sao Tome and Principe		0	4
Cameroon	3,140	4,917	5,281	5,764	5,630	3,690	4,805	1,850	4,458
Uganda	35,092	22,979	19,023	18,030	16,702	8,210	10,065	7,019	5,732
Senegal	279	305						6
Canada	53,451	55,436	53,957	53,339	49,260	48,369	50,708	53,411	55,394
Morocco	32,623			29,439	67,763		56,275	64,657	117,883	111,328
Nigeria		18,093		15,388	16,487
United States of America	862,220	781,844	752,423	762,009	726,800	731,100	764,100	803,000	810,300	807,400
Botswana		17,457	16,098			16,847
Dominican Republic				5,937	3,833	4,275	3,889	3,142
Cabo Verde		4,090	4,030	4,116	4,013	4,117	4,205	3,804	3,393	3,015
Barbados	1,731	1,511	1,312	1,468	1,250	1,465	1,474	1,559	1,437
Bahamas		3,063	3,268	3,132		5,145	4,562	4,276	3,854	4,035
Trinidad and Tobago	801	616	535	579	542	558	600
Grenada	1,894	1,152	1,236	1,313	1,394	529	494	437	375
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	1,252	1,309	1,245	1,112				821
St. Kitts and Nevis		155	137
El Salvador	4,628	3,891	3,681	4,228	4,322	3,920	5,887	2,506	3,745
Guatemala	6,095	7,452	6,237	6,086	2,786	2,417	2,364	1,849
Nicaragua	19,335	18,345
Costa Rica		7,953	7,361	6,477	8,221	8,477	8,517	7,529	7,695
Panama		6,060	5,784	5,461	4,236	4,063	2,843	2,511	3,870	4,264
Brazil		715,702	717,185	732,913	661,494	606,252	621,009	600,920	591,881	574,614
Paraguay	2,235	1,947	2,012	2,024	837	779	685	664	652	580
Colombia	30,415	53,140	62,185	82,181	167,111	167,645	175,106	179,607	171,449	171,881
Honduras			3,645	2,027	1,734	1,497	1,328	1,347	2,053	2,321
Chile		22,259	22,963	19,813	14,313	13,359	12,304	12,007	10,969	12,214
Kyrgyzstan	264	536	482	414	306	380	359	283	246	160
Argentina	142,099					178,611	181,321	142,986	142,125	135,982
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China	8,091	7,602	7,362	7,332	6,623					4,795
Mongolia	2,991	5,821	5,838	6,546	7,564	8,132	445	443	459	326
Peru	14,699	19,053	20,717	25,022	26,163	24,806	24,778	22,720	26,028	46,468
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	6,026	8,451	6,692	7,426	12,625	9,513	8,647	8,108	7,588	8,039
Ecuador	7,756	4,505	6,309	8,242	8,560	7,430	8,016	7,312	6,522	6,426
Maldives		1,478	1,249	1,264	1,289	449	372	377	354
Singapore	607	429	406	452	476	513	473	492	420	436
Uruguay		519	514	469	426	470	469	472	427	525
Kazakhstan		1,591	1,962	1,666	1,361	957	900		2,050
Indonesia		31,960	35,800	30,901	35,153	36,980	14,559	14,468	12,405	11,191
Sri Lanka		64,616	66,474	66,137	4,098	4,037	3,792	3,563	3,205	2,889
Armenia	180	155	161	157	176	198	163	186	181	179
Japan	60,299	26,647	25,928	28,058	27,864	26,653	25,183	24,365
Tajikistan		5,490	3,735
Bahrain	3,528
Republic of Korea		292,347	311,862	62,257	55,884	50,281	48,005	50,028	44,611	52,867
Kuwait	595
Brunei Darussalam	530
Israel	51,114	46,007	43,069
Thailand	28,245	9,112	13,322	13,654	12,491	12,675	13,677	2,303		9,239
Malaysia	4,246
Oman						40	44	41	64	49
Bangladesh	570
Guyana		11,182		9,867	6,501		9,269	1,154	2,102	524
Syrian Arab Republic	6,157									135
Nepal	1,047							66
Czechia	21,684	18,073	19,409	18,358	18,689	5,199	5,229	5,050	4,767	4,967
Azerbaijan	165	172	153	132	132	160		333	369	304
Cyprus	132	173	164	148	132	134	143	145	144	132
Jordan	14,677
Poland		11,011	10,703	9,721	9,118	8,248	6,957	7,621	7,304	6,610
Turkey	105,721	220,882	238,395	262,330	74,938	79,405	87,554	69,896
Turkmenistan	90
Bhutan		67	37	45	13	521	439	400	980	1,098
Ukraine	6,707	4,029							1,615
Hungary	12,339	14,569	14,212	13,973	13,377	13,475	12,472
Lebanon		9,496	8,956	8,658	8,222	8,514	7,769	7,491
Republic of Moldova	395	416	360	325	324	320	252	250	237	206
Iceland		57	60	74	92	101	85	74	103	122
Slovakia	3,896	2,426	2,227	2,183	2,017	1,988	1,862	1,632	1,642	1,597
Macao Special Administrative Region of China		1,836	1,728	1,754	1,700	1,783	11	10	7	7
Sweden	72,645	5,594	5,684	5,338	4,659	4,570	4,646	4,959	4,685	4,709
India	270,861	289,022	302,847	332,324	334,669
Finland	30,467	1,996	2,953	1,874	1,791	1,645	1,563	1,592	1,581	1,609
Estonia	132	103	104	99	99	77	98		76	90
Belarus	1,915	1,158	1,003	907	852	830	842	737	696	723
Albania	165	178	169	156	163	132	169	118	125	135
Norway	2,961	2,925	2,837	2,781	2,566	2,377	2,239	2,199	2,112	1,968
Ireland	12,479	15,038	14,709	13,566	3,089	3,163	3,516	3,634	4,081	4,506
Georgia	368	126				228				185
Italy	56,629	64,866	68,500	69,527	66,317	67,004	65,072	64,133	65,906	66,348
State of Palestine	6,572	286	340	347						741
United Arab Emirates	717			378	311	316	320	348	223	209
Russian Federation	57,863	30,403	29,647	29,045	30,453	29,286	27,258	25,153	23,223	22,073
Slovenia	2,304	2,182	1,974	2,032	1,849	1,657	1,540	1,491	1,398	1,544
Austria	3,611	3,606	3,897	4,030	3,327	3,230	3,461	3,793	3,625	3,711
Bulgaria	3,656	3,038	2,462	2,410	2,470	2,533	2,520	2,470	2,811	2,518
Greece	7,777	1,101	1,425	1,692	1,610	1,459	1,624	1,515	1,510	1,587
Lithuania	407	245	206	178	211	204	214	216	178	185
Andorra		98	144	163	90	123	133
Serbia	1,614	1,391	1,309	1,323	1,750	1,506	1,422	1,339	1,285	1,223
Romania	8,898	12,301	12,299	17,219	17,572	2,279	299	304	272	252
Portugal	39,220	863	812	701	580	542	469	521	584	579
Luxembourg		2,475	2,744	2,994	3,018	728	608	569	585	611
Denmark	11,117	1,753	1,696	9,557	1,503	1,533	1,460	1,733	1,904	1,857
Spain	172,824	25,077	18,290	17,353	16,701	16,776	29,056	17,331	18,086	18,292
Croatia	1,153	986	873	903	823	766	804	790	798	733
Malta		180	181	174	218	160	183	200	186	183
Liechtenstein	71	77	78	69	103	120	81	71	83	79
Germany	494,329	142,903	139,091	136,077	127,869	125,752	127,395	140,033	137,058	136,727
Latvia	1,100	1,226	1,161	1,325	458	569	534	657	657	646
Solomon Islands	1,213
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,369	505	652	618	577	592	992	1,009	752	909
Montenegro	155	193	161	168	173	129	140	128	147	153
North Macedonia		248	239	211	216	213	154	173	148
Switzerland	8,099	487	487	597	568	609	616	573	586	585
France	148,651	231,909	231,307	231,733	233,304	237,916	242,185	242,910
Netherlands	67,060	60,280	59,425	57,300	5,581	5,340	5,100	5,020	4,785	4,575
New Zealand	9,683	11,260	10,806	10,165	8,951	9,900	21,187	23,749	24,526	25,326
Mauritius	122	238	230
Egypt		156	339
Guinea	286
Jamaica		1,407		5,684	4,941	3,918	2,933	2,262	2,884	2,919
Belize				923		1,042			1,045
Mexico	239,166	230,687	212,141	211,921	32,202	39,937	46,211	63,654	55,184	46,797
Belgium	67,418	77,758	78,778	72,312	69,746	70,411	62,381	62,944	62,451	63,142
Monaco	155					154	197
Australia		68,665	66,103	63,709	66,211	67,081	68,002	70,986	72,964	72,707
Iraq (Central Iraq)		25,847	28,344	32,954	27,935	25,008
Myanmar		2,681	2,228	2,312	5,003	5,190	4,885	4,619		4,680
Puerto Rico		2,714	2,894	2,733	2,395	2,475	2,960	3,586	3,814	3,298
Madagascar		3,450	3,434	2,115	2,744	2,542	2,189
Saudi Arabia							437		1,845
United Republic of Tanzania						1,834	2,361
Pakistan		35,573	36,204	32,194	32,223	33,432	28,979	29,694	27,306	26,542
Suriname						433	310	396	360
South Africa						182,556	182,933	170,616	167,352
Benin									5,335
Guinea-Bissau					2,914	3,314	1,331	2,000
Uzbekistan						1,451	1,478	1,505	1,397
Antigua and Barbuda							7	5	7	8
Dominica						76	88	111	63	74
Haiti										1,278
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)							4,106	3,009	3,158	1,880

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