May 28, 2025 · The population data used to calculate homicide rates is sourced from the World Population Prospects, Population Division, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

This classification encompasses various forms of intentional killings, including murder, honour killing, fatal serious assaults, deaths resulting from terrorist activities, femicide, infanticide and extrajudicial …

Detailed statistics on murder rate by country, giving insights into both the highest and lowest murder rates per one hundred thousand people.

Dec 17, 2025 · In 2023, Saint Kitts and Nevis had the highest murder rate worldwide, with 65 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. Due to its strategic geographic location in the Caribbean, the island serves …

May 23, 2025 · The Americas show highest regional rates, and even though Brazil has the highest absolute number of murders globally, it represents 19.28 per 100,000. Mexico records 24.86 with …

Nov 27, 2025 · A world map showing murder rates by country. Higher rates appear in darker colors, with the highest levels in Latin America, the Caribbean, and southern Africa.

Homicide is the killing of a person by another with intent to cause death or serious injury, by any means. It excludes death due to legal intervention and operations of war. In 2019 an estimated 475 000 …

Dec 8, 2023 · More people were killed due to homicide than armed conflict and terrorism combined in 2021, with an average of 52 lives lost per hour worldwide, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime …

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s 2023 Global Study on Homicide, 458,000 people died from violent crimes in 2021. The report states that countries with high firearm rates have …

Dec 8, 2023 · More people were killed due to homicide than armed conflict and terrorism combined in 2021, with an average of 52 victims per hour around the world, according to the Global Study on …