Number of homicides

“Intentional homicide” is defined as unlawful death purposefully inflicted on a person by another person

Number of homicides (number)

	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Djibouti	64	63	63					60
Malawi	700	200	520	343	279
Comoros	56	58	59					60
Madagascar	1,793	1,842	1,941					1,863
Rwanda			291		256	359	428	293
United Republic of Tanzania			3,888	4,149	4,092	3,697	3,902	3,746
Ethiopia	7,113	7,214	7,419					7,552
Cameroon	459		999	835	880
Equatorial Guinea	20	22	25					27
Uganda		2,492	3,160	3,753	4,066	3,857	4,473
Somalia	490	517	636					599
Burundi			347	349	500	520	564	461	635
Kenya		1,084	1,926	2,271	2,374	2,450	2,305	2,261	2,363
Mozambique		1,089	875	849
South Sudan					1,504
Congo	366	396	433					466
Zimbabwe		1,350	711		981
Chad	949	1,079	1,151					1,266
Angola				1,055	1,217
Egypt		522	1,839	2,703	2,207
Swaziland		152	208
Sao Tome and Principe			6	6
Namibia	380		314	308	388
Burkina Faso		63	93	82	84	122	138	67
Morocco	461	469	451	441	383	429	355	431
Guinea	956	973	1,019					1,067
Niger				831	788
Cote d'Ivoire	2,681	2,696	2,576					2,688
Liberia			129	161	135
Benin	502	574	604					654
Democratic Republic of the Congo	6,617	8,021	9,213					10,322
Senegal	984	1,047	1,099					1,105
Libya	198	212	192					156
Tunisia		260	286		332
Mauritania	371	388	392					416
Bahamas	74	52	94	127	111	119	123	146	111
Dominica	2	8	15	6
Cape Verde		44	39	53	56	54	65	46	62
Mali	1,413	1,623	1,836					1,905
Jamaica	887	1,674	1,447	1,133	1,099	1,201	1,005	1,208	1,354
Saint Lucia	23	41	44	46	39	33	34
Honduras	3,176	3,212	6,236	7,104	7,172	6,431	5,891	5,148	5,150
Grenada	15	11	10	4	14	6	8	6	11
Lesotho			764	712	641	658		897
Dominican Republic	1,210	2,394	2,474	2,513	2,268	1,978	1,810		1,616
Haiti			677	914	1,033
Gabon	134	154	143					155
Algeria		204	254	280	523	480	577	542
Ghana		393	422	423
Togo	522	606	625					668
Nigeria	15,605	16,423	16,996					17,843
Antigua and Barbuda	5	3	6		10
Barbados	20	29	31	27	22	24	25	31
Cuba	587	684	505	534	621	674	600	619	572
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	20	26	25	21	28				40
Botswana		291	303
Trinidad and Tobago	120	386	473	352	380	408	405	420
Costa Rica	249	335	527	474	407	411	477	557	578
Guatemala	2,904	5,338	5,960	5,681	5,155	5,253	4,998	4,778	4,520
Colombia	26,539	18,111	15,459	16,127	16,440	15,419	13,343	12,782	12,402
Saint Kitts and Nevis	3	8	21	34	18
Argentina							3,227	2,837	2,605
Peru				1,617	1,968	2,013	2,076	2,247	2,435
Uzbekistan	1,068	910
South Africa	21,758	18,528	15,893	15,554	16,213	17,023	17,805	18,673	19,016
Nicaragua	476	729	785	738	673	594	525	524	453
Gambia	153	142	166					181
Guinea-Bissau	162	161	163					169
Panama	299	364	460	549	637	663	568	447	390
Sierra Leone		99	163	187	113			124
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China	38	34	35	17	27	62	27	22	28
Malaysia	551	604	540	530	602	627
Belize	41	81	129	124	145	99	123	119	138
Canada	546	664	556	606	548	509	521	604	611
Mexico	10,737	9,921	25,757	27,213	25,967	23,063	20,010	20,762	24,559
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)		478	1,273	1,236	1,221	932	942	671	686
Timor-Leste		46	39					49
Bhutan	18	11	16	32	33	24		12	9
Chile		576	541	636	434	556	638	534	620
Puerto Rico	695	771	1,017	1,164	1,004	902	700	619	679
Uruguay	214	190	205	199	267	260	268	293	265
China	26,858	20,770	13,410	12,015	11,286	10,640	10,083	9,200	8,634
Eritrea	335	382	389					390
El Salvador	3,551	3,882	3,987	4,371	2,594	2,513	3,921	6,656	5,257
Pakistan	8,906	9,782	13,190	13,860	13,846	13,937	13,276	9,486	8,516
Bahrain		4	11	7	4	5	7
Kyrgyzstan	430	419	1,072	494	301	206	216	304	267
Macao Special Administrative Region of China	10	4	2	4	4	1	0	1	1
Paraguay	995	887	741	657	649	604	578	617
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	1,521	1,206	1,179					1,110
Jordan		67	116	141	161	144	176	159	145
Qatar	1	6	4	4	7	9	9
Lao People's Democratic Republic	572	553	502					467
Bangladesh	3,343	3,592	3,988	3,966	4,114	4,393	4,514	4,035
Cambodia	571	448	331	268
Turkmenistan	267	206
United States of America	15,586	16,740	14,722	14,661	14,856	14,319	14,164	15,883	17,250
Philippines	5,735	6,434	8,897	8,674	8,484	9,153	9,756	9,643	11,385
Ecuador	1,833	2,121	2,623	2,344	1,923	1,725	1,311	1,055	959
Lebanon			163	168	194	236	240	231	235
Republic of Korea				427	411	342	372	365	356
Suriname	68	69
Brazil	41,595	43,645	43,272	48,084	53,054	54,163	57,091	58,459	61,283
Yemen	697	945	1,099	1,375	1,616	1,703
Czech Republic	181	108	103	86	105	90	81	88	65
Kazakhstan	2,325		1,387	1,420	1,266	1,120	904	853
Guyana	76	142	140	130	139	155	149	149	142
Iran (Islamic Republic of)						2,037	1,936
Georgia	239	403	187				108		39
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	8,022	9,964	13,080	14,098	16,072		19,030		17,778
Syria	357	430	463
Tajikistan	283	157	181	126
Thailand	5,142	4,806	3,654	3,307	3,323	2,894	2,649	2,387	2,229
Japan	678	643	465	442	429	370	395	363	362
Poland	855	555	436	449	377	296	282	287	256
Ukraine	4,418	3,030	1,988		2,336		2,845
Nepal	635	878	813	679	642	606	558		627
Russian Federation	41,090	35,636				15,763	16,260	16,519	15,561
Cyprus	8	20	8	9	22	12	11	15	13
Israel	147	166	145	151	134		118	110
Ireland	37	52	53	42	53	52	52	29	38
Norway	48	33	29	111	27	46	29	24	27
Estonia	143	113	70	65	63	52	41	42
Croatia	101	68	62	49	51	46	36	37	44
Malta	4	4	4	3	12	7	6	4
Denmark	58	53	42	46	47	48	73	56	56
Saudi Arabia	173	297						472
Brunei Darussalam	4	2	1	1	4	2
United Arab Emirates		56	67	51	69	57	61	60	83
Latvia	238	126	70	69	70	50	64	67
Myanmar	1,041	676	801	1,055	1,436	1,238	1,230	1,152	1,198
San Marino	0	0	0	0
Hungary	205	164	138	145	124	154	146	221	202
Romania	581	453	404	335	378	336	298	291	247
Viet Nam		1,053	1,336	1,358
Andorra			0	1	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	180	174	144	143	145	125	123	104	94
Greece		132	176	184	166	153	107	93	84
Finland	148	119	119	110	88	89	88	82	78
India	51,344	45,095	46,460	47,640	47,478	45,878	47,356	44,385	42,678
Portugal	116	135	124	114	122	144	92	100	66
Vanuatu	5	5	5					6
Serbia	228	147	130	135	111	142	120	104	123
Albania	131	154	127	142	157	124	117	66	79
Slovenia	36	20	15	16	14	12	17	20	10
Spain	553	518	401	385	364	302	323	302	294
Germany	1,015	869	793	738	659	682	716	682	963
France	1,051	976	796	856	784	777	792	1,017	875
New Zealand	52	61	43	39	41	46	45
Switzerland	69	75	52	46	45	57	41	57	45
Liechtenstein	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Fiji		23	20	20	20	19	20
Austria	82	54	58	75	79	62	45	46	57
Micronesia (Federated States of)	4	5	5					5
Sri Lanka		1,219	763	732	676	619	553	487	530
Azerbaijan	226	192	206		202	221	236		208
Luxembourg	4	4	10	4	0	1	4
Papua New Guinea	465
Tuvalu		0	1	1	2
Marshall Islands					2
Palau					1
Nauru					0
Samoa			16			6
Mauritius	26	37	33	34	29	35	19	21	23
Seychelles			9	16	4	18	16	7	12
Zambia	797		814	863	885	867	825	853
Central African Republic									913
China (Taiwan)			179		179	168		192
Mongolia		398	239	266	199	205	213	184	171
Indonesia	2,204		1,058	1,467	1,456	1,386	1,277	1,491	1,292
Singapore	37	21	19	16	11	17	14	14	18
Afghanistan			983	1,231	1,948
Maldives			6	3	10	3
Armenia	91	58	56	71	65	63	72	75	87
Iraq			2,691	2,634	2,697	3,339
Palestina		86	32	24	26	24	35	45	33
Turkey		3,305	3,064	3,061	3,216
Belarus	1,013	825	401	373	340	333	340
Republic of Moldova	433	296	267	304	229	169	130
Iceland	5	3	2	3	1	1	2	3	1
Sweden	96	83	91	81	68	87	87	112	106
Bosnia and Herzegovina	99	70	56	51	63	46	50	57	45
Montenegro		22	15	21	17	10	20	17	28
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	47	44	43	30	29	22	33
Belgium	212	221	189	214	205	205	208	220
Monaco		1	0	0	0	0		0
Australia	362	259	231	248	243	245	243	236	227
Solomon Islands		26
Kiribati	3		4	11	8
Kuwait		41	60	59	61
Oman		53	48	34	39	97	26
Bulgaria	332	199	148	128	141	109	116	129	81
Slovakia	129	93	82	88	63	71	69	44	57
Lithuania	370	372	219	211	202	198	159	172	153
Italy	766	610	529	552	530	502	475	469	400
Tonga	1	4	1	2	1
United Kingdom (Scotland)	106	95	100	93	63	62	62	58	64