Countries by intentional homicide rate, 2012
Honduras had the highest intentional homicide rate of 146 countries in 2012, at 82.3 per 100,000 people. Singapore had the lowest, at 0.2 per 100,000 people. The median was 3.5 per 100,000 people and the figure for the World was 6.2 per 100,000 people. Source: the World Bank.
Top 40 countries, 2012
Full ranking
| Rank | Countries | 2012 | Change on 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honduras | 82.3 | -0.9 pts |
| 2 | Venezuela | 54.4 | +6.1 pts |
| 3 | U.S. Virgin Islands | 49.9 | +7.2 pts |
| 4 | Belize | 43.4 | +5.5 pts |
| 5 | El Salvador | 42.4 | -29.3 pts |
| 6 | Jamaica | 39.7 | -1.3 pts |
| 7 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 38.3 | -34.2 pts |
| 8 | Colombia | 36 | +0.3 pts |
| 9 | Guatemala | 34.2 | -4.2 pts |
| 10 | South Africa | 30.1 | +0.8 pts |
| 11 | Bahamas | 29.3 | -4.9 pts |
| 12 | Brazil | 28.6 | +1.9 pts |
| 13 | Puerto Rico | 27.8 | -4.2 pts |
| 14 | Trinidad and Tobago | 27.1 | +1.8 pts |
| 15 | Saint Lucia | 22.6 | -4.2 pts |
| 16 | Dominican Republic | 22.5 | -2.7 pts |
| 17 | Mexico | 22.2 | -1.4 pts |
| 18 | Guyana | 18.6 | +1.2 pts |
| 19 | Tuvalu | 18.3 | +9 pts |
| 20 | Namibia | 17.7 | +3.3 pts |
| 21 | Panama | 16.9 | +2.1 pts |
| 22 | Eritrea | 15.6 | |
| 23 | Greenland | 14.1 | +12.3 pts |
| 24 | South Sudan | 14 | |
| 25 | Grenada | 12.4 | +8.8 pts |
| 26 | Ecuador | 12.3 | -2.9 pts |
| 27 | Uganda | 11.8 | +0.6 pts |
| 28 | Antigua and Barbuda | 11.5 | |
| 29 | Nicaragua | 11.4 | -1.3 pts |
| 30 | Russia | 11.3 | 0 pts |
| 31 | Paraguay | 11 | -0.3 pts |
| 32 | Haiti | 10.3 | +1 pts |
| 33 | Bermuda | 9.4 | -3.1 pts |
| 34 | Eswatini | 9.3 | -6.1 pts |
| 35 | Costa Rica | 8.7 | -1.6 pts |
| 36 | Tanzania | 8.6 | -0.4 pts |
| 37 | Ethiopia | 8.5 | |
| 38 | Philippines | 8.5 | -0.2 pts |
| 39 | Iraq | 8 | -0.2 pts |
| 40 | Uruguay | 8 | +2 pts |
| 41 | Barbados | 7.9 | -1.8 pts |
| 42 | Kazakhstan | 7.3 | -1 pts |
| 43 | Kiribati | 7.1 | -2.8 pts |
| 44 | Mongolia | 7.1 | -2.6 pts |
| 45 | Zimbabwe | 7.1 | |
| 46 | Kyrgyzstan | 6.8 | -1.7 pts |
| 47 | Lithuania | 6.8 | -0.2 pts |
| 48 | Pakistan | 6.7 | -0.1 pts |
| 49 | Peru | 6.7 | +1.1 pts |
| 50 | Moldova | 6.6 | +0.5 pts |
| 51 | Afghanistan | 6.4 | +2.2 pts |
| 52 | Argentina | 6.3 | +0.3 pts |
| 53 | Zambia | 5.9 | -0 pts |
| 54 | Yemen | 5.7 | +0.7 pts |
| 55 | Cuba | 5.5 | +0.8 pts |
| 56 | Kenya | 5.4 | +0.1 pts |
| 57 | Albania | 5.4 | +0.5 pts |
| 58 | Saint Martin | 5.4 | -16.2 pts |
| 59 | Ukraine | 5.1 | |
| 60 | Burundi | 5 | |
| 61 | Angola | 4.8 | +0.5 pts |
| 62 | Estonia | 4.8 | -0.1 pts |
| 63 | United States | 4.7 | 0 pts |
| 64 | Bhutan | 4.6 | +0.1 pts |
| 65 | Niger | 4.4 | -0.4 pts |
| 66 | Türkiye | 4.3 | +0.2 pts |
| 67 | Cameroon | 4.2 | +0.1 pts |
| 68 | Seychelles | 4 | -12.5 pts |
| 69 | Aruba | 3.9 | +2 pts |
| 70 | India | 3.7 | -0.1 pts |
| 71 | Lebanon | 3.7 | +0.4 pts |
| 72 | American Samoa | 3.7 | -5.4 pts |
| 73 | Belarus | 3.6 | -0.3 pts |
| 74 | Latvia | 3.4 | |
| 75 | Sri Lanka | 3.2 | -0.3 pts |
| 76 | Liberia | 3.1 | -0.7 pts |
| 77 | Tunisia | 3 | |
| 78 | Myanmar | 2.9 | +0.7 pts |
| 79 | Malta | 2.8 | +2.1 pts |
| 80 | Montenegro | 2.7 | -0.6 pts |
| 81 | Bangladesh | 2.7 | +0.1 pts |
| 82 | Maldives | 2.6 | +1.8 pts |
| 83 | Chile | 2.5 | -1.2 pts |
| 84 | Isle of Man | 2.4 | +1.2 pts |
| 85 | Egypt | 2.4 | -0.6 pts |
| 86 | Rwanda | 2.4 | |
| 87 | Nepal | 2.3 | -0.1 pts |
| 88 | Armenia | 2.2 | -0.2 pts |
| 89 | Jordan | 2.2 | +0.3 pts |
| 90 | Fiji | 2.2 | -0 pts |
| 91 | Mauritius | 2.2 | -0.3 pts |
| 92 | Azerbaijan | 2.2 | -0.1 pts |
| 93 | Ghana | 2.1 | +0.5 pts |
| 94 | Malaysia | 2 | +0.2 pts |
| 95 | Bulgaria | 1.9 | +0.2 pts |
| 96 | Cyprus | 1.9 | +1.1 pts |
| 97 | Kuwait | 1.8 | -0.1 pts |
| 98 | Malawi | 1.8 | -0.5 pts |
| 99 | Sierra Leone | 1.7 | -1.2 pts |
| 100 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.7 | +0.4 pts |
| 101 | Israel | 1.7 | -0.3 pts |
| 102 | Finland | 1.6 | -0.4 pts |
| 103 | Canada | 1.6 | -0.2 pts |
| 104 | Greece | 1.5 | -0.2 pts |
| 105 | Serbia | 1.5 | -0.2 pts |
| 106 | North Macedonia | 1.4 | -0 pts |
| 107 | Algeria | 1.4 | +0.6 pts |
| 108 | Slovakia | 1.4 | -0.4 pts |
| 109 | Turkmenistan | 1.4 | -0.4 pts |
| 110 | Hungary | 1.3 | -0.2 pts |
| 111 | France | 1.2 | -0.1 pts |
| 112 | Croatia | 1.2 | +0.1 pts |
| 113 | Portugal | 1.2 | +0.1 pts |
| 114 | Morocco | 1.1 | -0.2 pts |
| 115 | Ireland | 1.1 | +0.2 pts |
| 116 | Oman | 1.1 | -0 pts |
| 117 | Poland | 1.1 | -0 pts |
| 118 | Australia | 1.1 | -0 pts |
| 119 | Romania | 1.1 | 0 pts |
| 120 | Czechia | 1 | +0.2 pts |
| 121 | Brunei | 1 | +0.7 pts |
| 122 | United Kingdom | 1 | -0 pts |
| 123 | Austria | 1 | 0 pts |
| 124 | Tonga | 0.9 | -0.9 pts |
| 125 | New Zealand | 0.9 | 0 pts |
| 126 | United Arab Emirates | 0.9 | +0.2 pts |
| 127 | South Korea | 0.9 | +0.1 pts |
| 128 | Italy | 0.9 | -0 pts |
| 129 | Netherlands | 0.9 | 0 pts |
| 130 | Denmark | 0.8 | 0 pts |
| 131 | China | 0.8 | -0.1 pts |
| 132 | Germany | 0.8 | -0.1 pts |
| 133 | Spain | 0.8 | -0 pts |
| 134 | Bahrain | 0.7 | -0.3 pts |
| 135 | Sweden | 0.7 | -0.1 pts |
| 136 | Burkina Faso | 0.7 | +0.1 pts |
| 137 | Slovenia | 0.7 | -0.1 pts |
| 138 | Macao | 0.7 | -0 pts |
| 139 | Palestine | 0.6 | -0.2 pts |
| 140 | Switzerland | 0.6 | -0 pts |
| 141 | Norway | 0.5 | -1.7 pts |
| 142 | Hong Kong | 0.4 | +0.1 pts |
| 143 | Qatar | 0.4 | +0.1 pts |
| 144 | Japan | 0.3 | -0 pts |
| 145 | Iceland | 0.3 | -0.6 pts |
| 146 | Singapore | 0.2 | -0.1 pts |
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About this ranking
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.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 48 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2012 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.
How to cite
World Bank, World Development Indicators. Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people (VC.IHR.PSRC.P5). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5. Retrieved 2026-10-11.Use this data in your AI agent
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Which country has the highest intentional homicide rate?
Honduras, with 82.3 per 100,000 people in 2012, according to the World Bank.
Which country has the lowest intentional homicide rate?
Singapore, with 0.2 per 100,000 people in 2012.
Where does this ranking come from?
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