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World Homicide rate Ranking

Compare homicide rate by country, including the top and bottom results, Japan's position and country details.

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01 / RANKING MAP

Compare homicide rate across the world.

Compare homicide rate by country on a ten-level world heat map. Explore the top and bottom five, the full ranking and country details.

Japan0.2 per 100,000 people
Fiji: 2.1 per 100,000 peopleTanzania: 3.7 per 100,000 peopleWestern Sahara: No dataCanada: 2 per 100,000 peopleUnited States: 5.8 per 100,000 peopleKazakhstan: 2.6 per 100,000 peopleUzbekistan: 1.4 per 100,000 peoplePapua New Guinea: 9.3 per 100,000 peopleIndonesia: 0.3 per 100,000 peopleArgentina: 4.5 per 100,000 peopleChile: 6.3 per 100,000 peopleCongo, Dem. Rep.: No dataSomalia, Fed. Rep.: No dataKenya: 4.9 per 100,000 peopleSudan: No dataChad: No dataHaiti: 41.2 per 100,000 peopleDominican Republic: 10.9 per 100,000 peopleRussian Federation: 6.8 per 100,000 peopleBahamas, The: 32.2 per 100,000 peopleFalkland Islands: No dataNorway: 0.7 per 100,000 peopleGreenland: 5.4 per 100,000 peopleFr. S. Antarctic Lands: No dataTimor-Leste: 4.1 per 100,000 peopleSouth Africa: 43.7 per 100,000 peopleLesotho: No dataMexico: 24.9 per 100,000 peopleUruguay: 11.2 per 100,000 peopleBrazil: 19.3 per 100,000 peopleBolivia: 4.4 per 100,000 peoplePeru: 8.6 per 100,000 peopleColombia: 24.9 per 100,000 peoplePanama: 11.7 per 100,000 peopleCosta Rica: 17.7 per 100,000 peopleNicaragua: 11.3 per 100,000 peopleHonduras: 31.4 per 100,000 peopleEl Salvador: 7.9 per 100,000 peopleGuatemala: 23.4 per 100,000 peopleBelize: 28.1 per 100,000 peopleVenezuela, RB: 12.6 per 100,000 peopleGuyana: 19.1 per 100,000 peopleSuriname: 6.5 per 100,000 peopleFrance: 1.3 per 100,000 peopleEcuador: 45.7 per 100,000 peoplePuerto Rico (US): 14.6 per 100,000 peopleJamaica: 49.4 per 100,000 peopleCuba: 4.5 per 100,000 peopleZimbabwe: 6.8 per 100,000 peopleBotswana: 11.4 per 100,000 peopleNamibia: 11.2 per 100,000 peopleSenegal: 0.3 per 100,000 peopleMali: No dataMauritania: 1 per 100,000 peopleBenin: 1.1 per 100,000 peopleNiger: 4.4 per 100,000 peopleNigeria: 15.7 per 100,000 peopleCameroon: 6.8 per 100,000 peopleTogo: No dataGhana: 1.8 per 100,000 peopleCote d'Ivoire: No dataGuinea: No dataGuinea-Bissau: 1.1 per 100,000 peopleLiberia: 3.1 per 100,000 peopleSierra Leone: 2.2 per 100,000 peopleBurkina Faso: 1.3 per 100,000 peopleCentral African Republic: 20.1 per 100,000 peopleCongo, Rep.: No dataGabon: No dataEquatorial Guinea: No dataZambia: 5.2 per 100,000 peopleMalawi: 1.8 per 100,000 peopleMozambique: 3.6 per 100,000 peopleEswatini: 12.5 per 100,000 peopleAngola: 4.1 per 100,000 peopleBurundi: 5.6 per 100,000 peopleIsrael: 1.6 per 100,000 peopleLebanon: 2.2 per 100,000 peopleMadagascar: No dataWest Bank and Gaza: 0.6 per 100,000 peopleGambia, The: No dataTunisia: 4.7 per 100,000 peopleAlgeria: 1.2 per 100,000 peopleJordan: 1 per 100,000 peopleUnited Arab Emirates: 0.7 per 100,000 peopleQatar: 0.1 per 100,000 peopleKuwait: 0.2 per 100,000 peopleIraq: 9.5 per 100,000 peopleOman: 0.1 per 100,000 peopleVanuatu: 0.3 per 100,000 peopleCambodia: 1.8 per 100,000 peopleThailand: 4.8 per 100,000 peopleLao PDR: No dataMyanmar: 2.6 per 100,000 peopleViet Nam: 1.5 per 100,000 peopleKorea, Dem. People's Rep.: No dataKorea, Rep.: 0.5 per 100,000 peopleMongolia: 5.9 per 100,000 peopleIndia: 2.8 per 100,000 peopleBangladesh: 2.3 per 100,000 peopleBhutan: 2.5 per 100,000 peopleNepal: 2.1 per 100,000 peoplePakistan: 4.3 per 100,000 peopleAfghanistan: 4 per 100,000 peopleTajikistan: 0.9 per 100,000 peopleKyrgyz Republic: 1.7 per 100,000 peopleTurkmenistan: 1 per 100,000 peopleIran, Islamic Rep.: 2.4 per 100,000 peopleSyrian Arab Republic: 2.1 per 100,000 peopleArmenia: 2.2 per 100,000 peopleSweden: 1.1 per 100,000 peopleBelarus: 2.4 per 100,000 peopleUkraine: 3.8 per 100,000 peoplePoland: 0.8 per 100,000 peopleAustria: 0.9 per 100,000 peopleHungary: 0.7 per 100,000 peopleMoldova: 2.5 per 100,000 peopleRomania: 1.1 per 100,000 peopleLithuania: 2.6 per 100,000 peopleLatvia: 2.5 per 100,000 peopleEstonia: 1.5 per 100,000 peopleGermany: 0.9 per 100,000 peopleBulgaria: 1.1 per 100,000 peopleGreece: 0.8 per 100,000 peopleTurkiye: 3.2 per 100,000 peopleAlbania: 1.4 per 100,000 peopleCroatia: 0.7 per 100,000 peopleSwitzerland: 0.6 per 100,000 peopleLuxembourg: 1.5 per 100,000 peopleBelgium: 1.1 per 100,000 peopleNetherlands: 0.7 per 100,000 peoplePortugal: 0.7 per 100,000 peopleSpain: 0.7 per 100,000 peopleIreland: 0.7 per 100,000 peopleNew Caledonia: No dataSolomon Islands: No dataNew Zealand: 1.5 per 100,000 peopleAustralia: 0.9 per 100,000 peopleSri Lanka: 3.3 per 100,000 peopleChina: 0.5 per 100,000 peopleTaiwan: No dataItaly: 0.6 per 100,000 peopleDenmark: 0.8 per 100,000 peopleUnited Kingdom: 1.1 per 100,000 peopleIceland: 1.3 per 100,000 peopleAzerbaijan: 2.2 per 100,000 peopleGeorgia: 2 per 100,000 peoplePhilippines: 4.3 per 100,000 peopleMalaysia: 0.7 per 100,000 peopleBrunei Darussalam: 0.5 per 100,000 peopleSlovenia: 0.6 per 100,000 peopleFinland: 1 per 100,000 peopleSlovak Republic: 1.1 per 100,000 peopleCzechia: 0.8 per 100,000 peopleEritrea: 15.6 per 100,000 peopleJapan: 0.2 per 100,000 peopleParaguay: 6.8 per 100,000 peopleYemen, Rep.: 5.8 per 100,000 peopleSaudi Arabia: 0.9 per 100,000 peopleAntarctica: No dataN. Cyprus: No dataCyprus: 0.8 per 100,000 peopleMorocco: 1.7 per 100,000 peopleEgypt, Arab Rep.: 1.3 per 100,000 peopleLibya: No dataEthiopia: 8.5 per 100,000 peopleDjibouti: No dataSomaliland: No dataUganda: 9 per 100,000 peopleRwanda: 3.6 per 100,000 peopleBosnia and Herzegovina: 1.2 per 100,000 peopleNorth Macedonia: 1.5 per 100,000 peopleSerbia: 1.3 per 100,000 peopleMontenegro: 0.8 per 100,000 peopleKosovo: No dataTrinidad and Tobago: 40.4 per 100,000 peopleSouth Sudan: 14 per 100,000 people
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02 / ABOUT THIS DATA

How to read the World Homicide rate Ranking

Compare homicide rate by country on a ten-level world heat map. Explore the top and bottom five, the full ranking and country details. This page orders 184 countries and territories by value and divides the ranking into ten map colors.

Top 3
#1 Turks and Caicos Islands (76.3 per 100,000 people), #2 St. Kitts and Nevis (64.2 per 100,000 people), #3 St. Vincent and the Grenadines (51.3 per 100,000 people)
Japan’s position
World #180 (0.2 per 100,000 people)
Data period
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