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Homicide statistics by gender

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According to the data given by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, worldwide, 79% of homicide victims are men, and in 193 of the 202 listed countries or regions, men were more likely to be killed than women.[1] In two, the ratio was 50:50 (Switzerland and British Virgin Islands), and in the remaining seven – Tonga, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Latvia, and Hong Kong – women were slightly more likely to be victims of homicides compared to males.[2] A 2000 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that men accounted for about 98 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide[1] and 79% of the victims (see the chart below). The highest female homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants was in Honduras and highest male homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants was in Lesotho.

Table edit

  • Rate: The homicide rate is per year per 100,000 inhabitants.
Homicide Victims by Gender, by Country.[2][1][3]
Location Total Male Female Year
Victims Rate % of total Victims Rate % of total Victims Rate
  Afghanistan 1,948 6.5 87.0 1,695 5.7 13.0 253 0.8 2010
  Albania 157 5.0 83.4 131 4.2 16.6 26 0.8 2009
  Algeria 280 0.7 84.0 235 0.6 16.0 45 0.1 2012
  Angola 2,079 10.0 81.2 1,688 8.1 18.8 391 1.9 2010
  Anguilla 1 7.5 100.0 1 7.5 0.0 0 0.0 2010
  Antigua and Barbuda 10 11.2 67.9 7 7.6 32.1 3 3.6 2011
  Argentina 2,237 5.5 83.6 1,870 4.6 16.4 367 0.9 2011
  Armenia 54 1.8 64.8 35 1.2 35.2 19 0.6 2011
  Aruba 4 3.9 100.0 4 3.9 0.0 0 0.0 2010
  Australia 254 1.1 67.3 171 0.7 32.7 83 0.4 2010
  Austria 65 0.7 43.1 28 0.6 56.9 37 0.8 2020
  Azerbaijan 194 2.1 69.9 136 1.5 30.1 58 0.6 2012
  Bahamas 111 29.8 87.4 97 26.0 12.6 14 3.8 2011
  Bahrain 7 0.5 85.6 6 0.4 14.4 1 0.1 2011
  Bangladesh 4,169 2.7 63.2 2,635 1.7 36.8 1,534 1.0 2010
  Barbados 21 7.4 67.7 14 5.0 32.3 7 2.4 2010
  Belarus 486 5.1 67.7 329 3.5 32.3 157 1.6 2012
  Belgium 182 1.6 56.6 103 0.9 43.4 79 0.7 2012
  Belize 145 44.7 90.3 131 40.4 9.7 14 4.3 2011
  Benin 848 8.4 71.1 603 6.0 28.9 245 2.4 2011
  Bhutan 12 1.7 61.2 7 1.0 38.8 5 0.7 2010
  Bolivia 1,270 12.1 77.3 982 9.4 22.7 288 2.7 2012
  Bosnia and Herzegovina 41 1.2 75.6 31 0.9 24.4 10 0.3 2017 [4]
  Botswana 368 18.4 76.0 280 14.0 24.0 88 4.4 2010
  Brazil 50,108 25.2 89.8 44,997 22.6 10.2 5,111 2.6 2010
  British Virgin Islands 2 8.4 50.0 1 4.2 50.0 1 4.2 2010
  Brunei 8 2.0 54.1 4 1.1 45.9 4 0.9 2010
  Bulgaria 141 1.9 82.3 116 1.6 17.7 25 0.3 2011
  Burkina Faso 1,311 8.0 67.2 881 5.4 32.8 430 2.6 2012
  Burma 8,044 15.2 61.5 4,947 9.3 38.5 3,097 5.9 2010
  Burundi 790 8.0 70.4 556 5.6 29.6 234 2.4 2010
  Cambodia 964 6.5 75.3 726 4.9 24.7 238 1.6 2010
  Cameroon 1,654 7.6 75.5 1,249 5.7 24.5 405 1.9 2012
  Canada 784 2.06 74.8 586 1.54 25.2 197 0.52 2021[5]
  Cape Verde 51 10.3 74.5 38 7.7 25.5 13 2.6 2010
  Cayman Islands 8 14.7 87.5 7 12.9 12.5 1 1.8 2010
  Central African Republic 532 11.8 85.6 455 10.1 14.4 77 1.7 2010
  Chad 907 7.3 71.2 646 5.2 28.8 261 2.1 2010
  Chile 550 3.1 81.9 450 2.5 18.1 100 0.6 2010
  China 13,410 1.0 78.1 10,473 0.8 21.9 2,937 0.2 2012
  China, Hong Kong SAR 27 0.4 47.1 13 0.2 52.9 14 0.2 2011
  China, Macao SAR 4 0.7 60.0 2 0.4 40.0 2 0.3 2010
  Colombia 14,670 30.8 91.6 13,438 28.2 8.4 1,232 2.6 2012
  Comoros 72 10.0 70.6 51 7.1 29.4 21 2.9 2010
  Congo 541 12.5 83.9 454 10.5 16.1 87 2.0 2011
  Costa Rica 407 8.5 87.7 357 7.5 12.3 50 1.0 2011
  Croatia 43 1.04 58.1 25 0.6 41.7 18 0.4 2017 [6]
  Cuba 477 4.2 75.0 358 3.2 25.0 119 1.1 2012
  Cyprus 23 2.0 77.3 18 1.5 22.7 5 0.5 2012
  Czech Republic 77 0.7 49.4 38 0.7 50.6 39 0.7 2020
  North Korea 1,293 5.2 77.1 997 4.0 22.9 296 1.2 2010
  DR Congo 18,586 28.3 80.8 15,017 22.9 19.2 3,569 5.4 2010
  Denmark 47 0.8 66.0 31 0.5 34.0 16 0.3 2010
  Djibouti 87 10.1 72.3 63 7.3 27.7 24 2.8 2012
  Dominica 15 21.1 87.5 13 18.5 12.5 2 2.6 2012
  Dominican Republic 2,268 22.1 91.1 2,066 20.1 8.9 202 2.0 2010
  East Timor 39 3.6 73.1 29 2.6 26.9 10 1.0 2010
  Ecuador 1,924 12.4 91.8 1,766 11.4 8.2 158 1.0 2010
  Egypt 2,703 3.4 87.8 2,373 3.0 12.2 330 0.4 2006
  El Salvador 2,594 41.2 89.0 2,309 36.7 11.0 285 4.5 2010
  Equatorial Guinea 142 19.3 82.5 117 15.9 17.5 25 3.4 2010
  Eritrea 437 7.1 74.4 325 5.3 25.6 112 1.8 2012
  Estonia 65 5.0 76.6 50 3.8 23.4 15 1.2 2010
  Ethiopia 11,048 12.0 77.2 8,529 9.3 22.8 2,519 2.7 2010
  Fiji 35 4.0 61.3 21 2.5 38.7 14 1.5 2005
  Finland 89 1.6 53.9 48 0.9 46.1 41 0.7 2010
  France 734 1.1 68.9 506 1.6 31.1 228 0.7 2021
  French Guiana 30 13.3 81.8 25 10.9 18.2 5 2.4 2012
  Gabon 148 9.1 83.9 124 7.6 16.1 24 1.5 2010
  Gambia 182 10.2 68.9 125 7.0 31.1 57 3.2 2010
  Georgia 187 4.3 75.7 142 3.3 24.3 45 1.0 2010
  Germany 782 0.9 54.3 425 1.0 45.7 357 0.9 2020
  Ghana 1,537 6.1 63.8 981 3.9 36.2 556 2.2 2011
  Greece 184 1.7 93.4 172 1.6 6.6 12 0.1 2010
  Grenada 14 13.3 64.3 9 8.6 35.7 5 4.7 2010
  Guadeloupe 36 7.9 84.2 30 6.7 15.8 6 1.2 2010
  Guatemala 6,025 39.9 88.9 5,356 35.5 11.1 669 4.4 2010
  Guinea 1,018 8.9 69.4 706 6.2 30.6 312 2.7 2010
  Guinea-Bissau 140 8.4 70.6 99 5.9 29.4 41 2.5 2012
  Guyana 135 17.0 60.0 81 10.2 40.0 54 6.8 2008
  Haiti 1,033 10.2 78.4 810 8.0 21.6 223 2.2 2012
  Honduras 7,172 90.4 93.2 6,684 84.3 6.8 488 6.1 2010
  Hungary 80 0.8 51.2 41 0.9 48.8 39 0.8 2020
  Iceland 1 0.3 0.0 0 0.0 100.0 1 0.3 2010
  India 43,355 3.5 59.2 25,666 2.1 40.8 17,689 1.4 2012
  Indonesia 1,456 0.6 80.3 1,169 0.5 19.7 287 0.1 2010
  Iran 3,126 4.1 81.9 2,560 3.4 18.1 566 0.7 2010
  Iraq 2,628 8.0 68.3 1,795 5.5 31.7 833 2.5 2010
  Ireland 54 1.2 86.7 47 1.0 13.3 7 0.2 2012
  Israel 134 1.8 72.8 98 1.3 27.2 36 0.5 2010
  Italy 530 0.9 69.9 370 0.6 30.1 160 0.3 2011
  Ivory Coast 2,691 13.6 76.0 2,045 10.3 24.0 646 3.3 2010
  Jamaica 1,087 39.3 89.5 973 35.2 10.5 114 4.1 2010
  Japan 318 0.3 41.2 131 0.2 58.8 187 0.3 2020
  Jordan 133 2.0 76.6 102 1.5 23.4 31 0.5 2010
  Kazakhstan 1,263 7.8 82.1 1,037 6.4 17.9 226 1.4 2010
  Kenya 2,761 6.4 76.6 2,115 4.9 23.4 646 1.5 2010
  Kiribati 8 8.2 69.4 6 5.7 30.6 2 2.5 2012
  Kuwait 12 0.4 83.6 10 0.3 16.4 2 0.1 2010
  Kyrgyzstan 494 9.1 68.7 339 6.3 31.3 155 2.8 2012
  Laos 392 5.9 79.4 311 4.7 20.6 81 1.2 2011
  Latvia 97 4.7 49.0 48 2.3 51.0 49 2.4 2010
  Lebanon 95 2.2 79.5 76 1.7 20.5 19 0.5 2012
  Lesotho 764 38.0 74.0 565 28.1 26.0 199 9.9 2010
  Liberia 135 3.2 70.1 95 2.2 29.9 40 1.0 2009
  Libya 103 1.7 76.8 79 1.3 23.2 24 0.4 2010
  Lithuania 202 6.7 73.8 149 4.9 26.2 53 1.8 2010
  Luxembourg 4 0.8 100.0 4 0.8 0.0 0 0.0 2011
  Macedonia 30 1.4 86.7 26 1.2 13.3 4 0.2 2010
  Madagascar 2,465 11.1 71.6 1,765 7.9 28.4 700 3.2 2010
  Malawi 279 1.8 87.5 244 1.6 12.5 35 0.2 2010
  Malaysia 652 2.3 72.6 473 1.7 27.4 179 0.6 2009
  Maldives 13 3.9 63.3 8 2.5 36.7 5 1.4 2010
  Mali 1,119 7.5 65.0 727 4.9 35.0 392 2.6 2012
  Malta 12 2.8 75.0 9 2.1 25.0 3 0.7 2011
  Marshall Islands 2 4.7 81.3 2 3.8 18.7 0 0.9 2012
  Martinique 11 2.7 72.7 8 2.0 27.3 3 0.7 2010
  Mauritania 191 5.0 68.9 132 3.4 31.1 59 1.6 2010
  Mauritius 34 2.8 76.5 26 2.1 23.5 8 0.7 2010
  Mexico 26,037 21.5 89.3 23,251 19.2 10.7 2,786 2.3 2012
  Micronesia 5 4.6 74.2 4 3.4 25.8 1 1.2 2008
  Moldova 229 6.5 72.5 166 4.7 27.5 63 1.8 2011
  Mongolia 266 9.7 77.4 206 7.5 22.6 60 2.2 2010
  Montenegro 17 2.7 82.4 14 2.2 17.6 3 0.5 2012
  Montserrat 1 20.4 100.0 1 20.4 0.0 0 0.0 2010
  Morocco 704 2.2 87.8 618 1.9 12.2 86 0.3 2010
  Mozambique 3,133 12.4 75.8 2,375 9.4 24.2 758 3.0 2010
  Namibia 388 17.2 76.3 296 13.1 23.7 92 4.1 2008
  Nepal 786 2.9 77.3 608 2.2 22.7 178 0.7 2010
  Netherlands 145 0.9 65.0 94 0.6 35.0 51 0.3 2012
  New Zealand 41 0.9 48.8 20 0.4 51.2 21 0.5 2010
  Nicaragua 675 11.3 92.6 625 10.5 7.4 50 0.8 2010
  Niger 803 4.7 66.1 531 3.1 33.9 272 1.6 2010
  Nigeria 33,817 20.0 68.2 23,063 13.6 31.8 10,754 6.4 2010
  Norway 111 2.2 53.2 59 1.2 46.8 52 1.0 2010
  Oman 34 1.1 73.3 25 0.8 26.7 9 0.3 2010
  Pakistan 13,846 7.7 76.7 10,620 5.9 23.3 3,226 1.8 2010
  Panama 654 17.2 94.6 619 16.3 5.4 35 0.9 2009
  Papua New Guinea 713 10.4 73.7 525 7.7 26.3 188 2.7 2010
  Paraguay 649 9.7 88.8 576 8.6 11.2 73 1.1 2009
  Peru 2,865 9.6 78.1 2,238 7.5 21.9 627 2.1 2010
  Philippines 8,484 8.8 88.0 7,466 7.7 12.0 1,018 1.1 2011
  Poland 449 1.2 73.2 329 0.9 26.8 120 0.3 2010
  Portugal 122 1.2 70.2 86 0.8 29.8 36 0.4 2011
  Puerto Rico 978 26.5 94.1 920 24.9 5.9 58 1.6 2010
  Qatar 23 1.1 81.9 19 0.9 18.1 4 0.2 2010
  Réunion 15 1.8 75.0 11 1.4 25.0 4 0.5 2010
  Romania 378 1.7 62.5 236 1.1 37.5 142 0.6 2010
  Russia 13,120 9.2 75.5 9,906 6.9 24.5 3,214 2.3 2012
  Rwanda 2,648 23.1 70.9 1,877 16.4 29.1 771 6.7 2012
  Saint Kitts and Nevis 18 33.6 90.5 16 30.4 9.5 2 3.2 2011
  Saint Lucia 39 21.6 79.7 31 17.2 20.3 8 4.4 2008
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 28 25.6 88.0 25 22.5 12.0 3 3.1 2010
  Samoa 7 3.6 81.2 6 2.9 18.8 1 0.7 2010
  São Tomé and Príncipe 6 3.3 74.6 4 2.5 25.4 2 0.8 2010
  Saudi Arabia 234 0.8 66.7 156 0.5 33.3 78 0.3 2011
  Senegal 379 2.8 74.8 283 2.1 25.2 96 0.7 2010
  Serbia 111 1.2 64.9 72 0.8 35.1 39 0.4 2010
  Seychelles 9 9.5 79.3 7 7.5 20.7 2 2.0 2010
  Sierra Leone 113 1.9 76.8 87 1.5 23.2 26 0.4 2012
  Singapore 11 0.2 62.5 7 0.1 37.5 4 0.1 2010
  Slovakia 75 1.4 68.0 51 1.0 32.0 24 0.4 2011
  Slovenia 14 0.7 57.1 8 0.4 42.9 6 0.3 2010
  Solomon Islands 24 4.3 74.8 18 3.2 25.2 6 1.1 2010
  Somalia 819 8.0 73.9 605 5.9 26.1 214 2.1 2012
  South Africa 16,259 31.0 84.6 13,755 26.2 15.4 2,504 4.8 2009
  South Korea 302 0.6 54.3 164 0.6 45.7 138 0.5 2020
  South Sudan 1,504 13.9 82.5 1,241 11.5 17.5 263 2.4 1994
  Spain 364 0.8 65.7 239 0.5 34.3 125 0.3 2009
  Sri Lanka 707 3.4 84.8 600 2.9 15.2 107 0.5 2012
  State of Palestine 312 7.4 87.6 273 6.5 12.4 39 0.9 2010
  Sudan 4,159 11.2 85.3 3,548 9.6 14.7 611 1.6 2011
  Suriname 33 6.1 75.3 25 4.6 24.7 8 1.5 2010
  Swaziland 416 33.8 77.9 324 26.3 22.1 92 7.5 2011
  Sweden 68 0.7 68.1 46 0.5 31.9 22 0.2 2010
  Switzerland 47 0.5 42.6 20 0.5 57.4 27 0.6 2020
  Syria 463 2.2 84.0 389 1.8 16.0 74 0.4 2010
  Taiwan 686 3.0 86.6 594 2.6 13.4 92 0.4 2009
  Tajikistan 126 1.6 86.5 109 1.4 13.5 17 0.2 2010
  Tanzania 6,071 12.7 73.0 4,432 9.3 27.0 1,639 3.4 2010
  Thailand 3,307 5.0 87.7 2,900 4.4 12.3 407 0.6 2007
  Togo 684 10.3 71.5 489 7.4 28.5 195 2.9 2010
  Tonga 1 1.0 0.0 0 0.0 100.0 1 1.0 2010
  Trinidad and Tobago 379 28.3 91.7 348 26.0 8.3 31 2.3 2010
  Tunisia 235 2.2 77.0 181 1.7 23.0 54 0.5 2010
  Turkey 1,866 2.6 79.5 1,483 2.1 20.5 383 0.5 2011
  Turkmenistan 660 12.8 83.8 553 10.7 16.2 107 2.1 2010
  Turks and Caicos Islands 2 6.6 100.0 2 6.6 0.0 0 0.0 2010
  Uganda 3,753 10.7 86.2 3,235 9.2 13.8 518 1.5 2010
  Ukraine 1,988 4.3 68.6 1,364 2.9 31.4 624 1.4 2009
  United Arab Emirates 235 2.6 86.8 204 2.3 13.2 31 0.3 2012
  United Kingdom 653 1.0 70.3 459 0.7 29.7 194 0.3 2012
  United States 21,570 7.8 82 17687 6.4 18 3883 1.4 2020[7][8]
  US Virgin Islands 56 52.6 87.5 49 46.0 12.5 7 6.6 2010
  Uruguay 267 7.9 79.4 212 6.3 20.6 55 1.6 2010
  Uzbekistan 1,060 3.7 82.4 873 3.0 17.6 187 0.7 2010
  Vanuatu 7 2.9 72.0 5 2.1 28.0 2 0.8 2011
  Venezuela 16,072 53.7 91.9 14,770 49.4 8.1 1,302 4.3 2010
  Vietnam 3,037 3.3 71.5 2,171 2.4 28.5 866 0.9 2011
  Yemen 1,099 4.8 79.5 874 3.8 20.5 225 1.0 2012
  Zambia 1,501 10.7 77.8 1,168 8.3 22.2 333 2.4 2011
  Zimbabwe 1,450 10.6 71.8 1,041 7.6 28.2 409 3.0 2010
 World 436,621 78.7 343,582 21.3 93,033

Charts edit

 
Homicide Victims per Year by Country and Gender (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2013)
 
Homicide Rate per Year by Country and Gender (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2013)

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Gibbons, Jonathan (2013). "Global Study on Homicide" (PDF). www.unodc.org. United National Office of Drugs and Crime (Vienna).
  2. ^ a b UNDOC Homicide Statistics 2013 used tables: Homicide counts and rates & Percentage of male and female homicide victims Retrieved May-31-2014
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  7. ^ "Vital Statistics". CDC. 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  8. ^ "Pew Research Center". Pew Research Center. 2021. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
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