Homicide Rate by Country — Every Decade Since 1800

Behind every statistic in our ledger lies an abrupt end to an ordinary day, transforming a living person into a data point tracked by the UNODC and the World Bank. As of the 2020s, homicide rate ranges from 0.2 per 100,000 in Singapore to 36.4 per 100,000 in South Africa across 157 countries. Intentional homicides per 100,000 people per year reveal how fragile safety can be, shifting from the quiet streets of 🇸🇬 Singapore 0.2, 🇯🇵 Japan 0.25, 🇮🇩 Indonesia 0.4, 🇨🇳 China 0.5, 🇨🇿 Czechia 0.5, 🇮🇹 Italy 0.5, 🇳🇴 Norway 0.5, 🇨🇭 Switzerland 0.5, 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates 0.5, and 🇰🇷 South Korea 0.6, right up to the median at 🇶🇦 Qatar (median) 2.5.

The table and chart below track every country MYRIAD covers, decade by decade — and every row links to what that number meant for a real life born there. This historical arc maps the long, uneven journey of communities attempting to establish order, moving away from the harsher realities seen further down the ledger where the bottom of the ranking records 🇳🇮 Nicaragua 20, 🇵🇦 Panama 20, 🇵🇾 Paraguay 20, 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago 20, 🇺🇾 Uruguay 20, and 🇻🇪 Venezuela 20. The numbers climb even higher in places like 🇧🇷 Brazil 22.5, 🇨🇴 Colombia 24.3, 🇲🇽 Mexico 28.4, and peak at 🇿🇦 South Africa 36.4.

When you trace these rates across generations, you are looking at the statistical probability of survival assigned to a specific plot of earth and time. Keep exploring individual trajectories through pages like Homicide Rate in Brazil, Homicide Rate in China, Homicide Rate in Germany, Homicide Rate in India, Homicide Rate in Japan, Homicide Rate in Nigeria, Homicide Rate in United Kingdom, and Homicide Rate in United States. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born? →