Countries by homicide rate

Countries by homicide rate, World Bank, mostly 2023

#	Country	Per 100,000 people	Year	Region
1	Saint Kitts and Nevis	64.2	2023	Caribbean
2	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	51.3	2023	Caribbean
3	Jamaica	49.4	2023	Caribbean
4	Ecuador	45.7	2023	South America
5	South Africa	43.7	2022	Southern Africa
6	Haiti	41.2	2023	Caribbean
7	Trinidad and Tobago	40.4	2022	Caribbean
8	Saint Lucia	39.0	2023	Caribbean
9	Bahamas	32.2	2022	Caribbean
10	Honduras	31.4	2023	Central America
11	Belize	28.1	2022	Central America
12	Dominica	27.1	2023	Caribbean
=13	Colombia	24.9	2023	South America
=13	Mexico	24.9	2023	Central America
15	Guatemala	23.4	2023	Central America
16	Central African Republic	20.1	2016	Middle Africa
17	Brazil	19.3	2023	South America
18	Guyana	19.1	2023	South America
19	Costa Rica	17.7	2023	Central America
20	Nigeria	15.7	2023	Western Africa
21	Grenada	13.7	2023	Caribbean
22	Venezuela	12.6	2022	South America
23	Eswatini	12.5	2021	Southern Africa
24	Panama	11.7	2023	Central America
25	Botswana	11.4	2021	Southern Africa
26	Nicaragua	11.3	2021	Central America
=27	Namibia	11.2	2021	Southern Africa
=27	Palau	11.2	2018	Micronesia
=27	Uruguay	11.2	2023	South America
30	Dominican Republic	10.9	2023	Caribbean
31	Antigua and Barbuda	10.7	2023	Caribbean
32	Uganda	9.0	2023	Eastern Africa
33	Peru	8.6	2021	South America
34	Seychelles	8.0	2022	Eastern Africa
35	El Salvador	7.9	2022	Central America
36	Barbados	7.4	2023	Caribbean
37	Cabo Verde	7.0	2020	Western Africa
=38	Cameroon	6.8	2022	Middle Africa
=38	Paraguay	6.8	2023	South America
=38	Russia	6.8	2021	Eastern Europe
=38	Zimbabwe	6.8	2022	Eastern Africa
42	Suriname	6.5	2023	South America
=43	Chile	6.3	2023	South America
=43	Samoa	6.3	2018	Polynesia
45	Mongolia	5.9	2023	Eastern Asia
46	United States	5.8	2023	Northern America
47	Burundi	5.6	2016	Eastern Africa
48	Liechtenstein	5.1	2021	Western Europe
49	Kenya	4.9	2022	Eastern Africa
50	Tunisia	4.7	2020	Northern Africa
=51	Argentina	4.5	2023	South America
=51	Cuba	4.5	2019	Caribbean
53	Bolivia	4.4	2023	South America
=54	Pakistan	4.3	2023	Southern Asia
=54	Philippines	4.3	2023	South-Eastern Asia
56	Angola	4.1	2016	Middle Africa
57	Afghanistan	4.0	2021	Southern Asia
58	Ukraine	3.8	2021	Eastern Europe
59	Tanzania	3.7	2020	Eastern Africa
60	Rwanda	3.6	2020	Eastern Africa
61	Sri Lanka	3.3	2019	Southern Asia
62	Turkey	3.2	2023	Western Asia
63	India	2.8	2022	Southern Asia
=64	Andorra	2.6	2020	Southern Europe
=64	Kazakhstan	2.6	2022	Central Asia
=64	Lithuania	2.6	2023	Northern Europe
=64	Myanmar	2.6	2023	South-Eastern Asia
=68	Bhutan	2.5	2020	Southern Asia
=68	Latvia	2.5	2023	Northern Europe
=68	Moldova	2.5	2023	Eastern Europe
71	Belarus	2.4	2019	Eastern Europe
=72	Bangladesh	2.3	2018	Southern Asia
=72	Mauritius	2.3	2022	Eastern Africa
=74	Armenia	2.2	2023	Western Asia
=74	Azerbaijan	2.2	2023	Western Asia
=74	Lebanon	2.2	2020	Western Asia
=74	Sierra Leone	2.2	2020	Western Africa
=78	Fiji	2.1	2023	Melanesia
=78	Nepal	2.1	2020	Southern Asia
=80	Canada	2.0	2023	Northern America
=80	Georgia	2.0	2019	Western Asia
82	Ghana	1.8	2022	Western Africa
=83	Kyrgyzstan	1.7	2020	Central Asia
=83	Morocco	1.7	2023	Northern Africa
85	Israel	1.6	2022	Western Asia
=86	Estonia	1.5	2023	Northern Europe
=86	Luxembourg	1.5	2022	Western Europe
=86	New Zealand	1.5	2022	Australia and New Zealand
=86	North Macedonia	1.5	2023	Southern Europe
=90	Albania	1.4	2023	Southern Europe
=90	Uzbekistan	1.4	2021	Central Asia
=92	Burkina Faso	1.3	2017	Western Africa
=92	Egypt	1.3	2017	Northern Africa
=92	France	1.3	2023	Western Europe
=92	Iceland	1.3	2023	Northern Europe
=92	Serbia	1.3	2023	Southern Europe
=97	Algeria	1.2	2023	Northern Africa
=97	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.2	2023	Southern Europe
=99	Belgium	1.1	2021	Western Europe
=99	Benin	1.1	2017	Western Africa
=99	Bulgaria	1.1	2023	Eastern Europe
=99	Guinea-Bissau	1.1	2017	Western Africa
=99	Romania	1.1	2023	Eastern Europe
=99	Slovakia	1.1	2023	Eastern Europe
=99	Sweden	1.1	2023	Northern Europe
=99	United Kingdom	1.1	2021	Northern Europe
=107	Finland	1.0	2023	Northern Europe
=107	Jordan	1.0	2023	Western Asia
=107	Mauritania	1.0	2020	Western Africa
=110	Australia	0.9	2023	Australia and New Zealand
=110	Austria	0.9	2023	Western Europe
=110	Germany	0.9	2023	Western Europe
=110	Micronesia	0.9	2019	Micronesia
=110	Saudi Arabia	0.9	2019	Western Asia
=110	Tajikistan	0.9	2020	Central Asia
=110	Tonga	0.9	2019	Polynesia
=117	Cyprus	0.8	2023	Western Asia
=117	Czechia	0.8	2023	Eastern Europe
=117	Denmark	0.8	2023	Northern Europe
=117	Greece	0.8	2023	Southern Europe
=117	Montenegro	0.8	2023	Southern Europe
=117	Poland	0.8	2023	Eastern Europe
=123	Croatia	0.7	2023	Southern Europe
=123	Hungary	0.7	2023	Eastern Europe
=123	Ireland	0.7	2023	Northern Europe
=123	Malaysia	0.7	2023	South-Eastern Asia
=123	Netherlands	0.7	2023	Western Europe
=123	Norway	0.7	2023	Northern Europe
=123	Portugal	0.7	2022	Southern Europe
=123	Spain	0.7	2023	Southern Europe
=123	United Arab Emirates	0.7	2022	Western Asia
=132	Italy	0.6	2023	Southern Europe
=132	Maldives	0.6	2019	Southern Asia
=132	Malta	0.6	2023	Southern Europe
=132	Slovenia	0.6	2023	Southern Europe
=132	Switzerland	0.6	2023	Western Europe
=137	China	0.5	2020	Eastern Asia
=137	South Korea	0.5	2023	Eastern Asia
=139	Indonesia	0.3	2022	South-Eastern Asia
=139	Vanuatu	0.3	2020	Melanesia
=141	Bahrain	0.2	2022	Western Asia
=141	Japan	0.2	2023	Eastern Asia
=141	Kuwait	0.2	2020	Western Asia
=144	Oman	0.1	2023	Western Asia
=144	Qatar	0.1	2022	Western Asia
=144	Singapore	0.1	2023	South-Eastern Asia

No World Bank figure for 48 countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Iran, Iraq, Kiribati, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Mozambique, Nauru, Niger, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, San Marino, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Turkmenistan, Vatican City, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed, and Antarctica. Highest first.

Place	Per 100,000 people	Status
Turks and Caicos Islands	76.3	Territory of United Kingdom
Saint Martin	26.9	Territory of France
American Samoa	25.5	Territory of United States of America
Puerto Rico	14.6	Territory of United States of America
Bermuda	6.2	Territory of United Kingdom
Greenland	5.4	Territory of Denmark
Cayman Islands	4.4	Territory of United Kingdom
Guam	4.3	Territory of United States of America
Macao	0.6	Territory of China
Palestine	0.6	Status disputed
Hong Kong	0.4	Territory of China

Questions

Which country has the highest homicide rate?

Saint Kitts and Nevis has the highest homicide rate: 64.2 homicides per 100,000 people (2023). Next come Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (51.3 homicides per 100,000 people) and Jamaica (49.4 homicides per 100,000 people).

Which country has the lowest homicide rate?

Singapore, with 0.1 homicides per 100,000 people (2023).

What is the typical homicide rate of a country?

The median of the 146 countries is 2.3 homicides per 100,000 people: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Intentional homicides in a year for every 100,000 people, from police and health records collected by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Records are uneven, so figures up to seven years old are shown. Source: World Bank, mostly 2023. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 7 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.