Intentional homicide rate
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people: unlawful deaths inflicted on a person with the intent to cause death or serious injury. World Bank series from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Excludes deaths in armed conflict. Countries record and classify killings differently, and not every country reports every year, so coverage is uneven.
Key facts
- Intentional homicide rate in the World was 5.2 per 100,000 people in 2023, according to the World Bank.
- Intentional homicide rate in the United States was 5.8 per 100,000 people in 2023, according to the World Bank.
- Honduras had the highest intentional homicide rate of 146 countries in 2012, at 82.3 per 100,000 people, and Singapore the lowest, at 0.2 per 100,000 people. Source: the World Bank.
- Published for 195 places, with figures from 1990 to 2023.
Rankings
Countries by intentional homicide rate, 2012
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- India
- China
- United States
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Nigeria
- Brazil
- Bangladesh
- Russia
- Ethiopia
- Monaco
- United Kingdom
- Peru
- Morocco
- Georgia
- French Polynesia
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Which places have the highest intentional homicide rate? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"homicide_rate","level":"country"}
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