Which country in Asia has the highest homicide rate?

Mongolia has the highest homicide rate in Asia: 5.9 homicides per 100,000 people (2023). Next come Pakistan (4.3 homicides per 100,000 people) and the Philippines (4.3 homicides per 100,000 people).

Which country in Asia has the lowest homicide rate?

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

What is the typical homicide rate of a country in Asia?

The median of the 35 countries in Asia is 1.6 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. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Countries in Asia by homicide rate

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. 35 countries in Asia, highest first. World Bank, mostly 2023

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Highest

5.9

Mongolia

Median country

1.6

half above, half below

Lowest

0.1

Singapore

Countries in Asia by homicide rate, World Bank, mostly 2023
#	Country	Per 100,000 people	Year	Region
1	Mongolia	5.9	2023	Eastern Asia
=2	Pakistan	4.3	2023	Southern Asia
=2	Philippines	4.3	2023	South-Eastern Asia
4	Afghanistan	4.0	2021	Southern Asia
5	Sri Lanka	3.3	2019	Southern Asia
6	Turkey	3.2	2023	Western Asia
7	India	2.8	2022	Southern Asia
=8	Kazakhstan	2.6	2022	Central Asia
=8	Myanmar	2.6	2023	South-Eastern Asia
10	Bhutan	2.5	2020	Southern Asia
11	Bangladesh	2.3	2018	Southern Asia
=12	Armenia	2.2	2023	Western Asia
=12	Azerbaijan	2.2	2023	Western Asia
=12	Lebanon	2.2	2020	Western Asia
15	Nepal	2.1	2020	Southern Asia
16	Georgia	2.0	2019	Western Asia
17	Kyrgyzstan	1.7	2020	Central Asia
18	Israel	1.6	2022	Western Asia
19	Uzbekistan	1.4	2021	Central Asia
20	Jordan	1.0	2023	Western Asia
=21	Saudi Arabia	0.9	2019	Western Asia
=21	Tajikistan	0.9	2020	Central Asia
23	Cyprus	0.8	2023	Western Asia
=24	Malaysia	0.7	2023	South-Eastern Asia
=24	United Arab Emirates	0.7	2022	Western Asia
26	Maldives	0.6	2019	Southern Asia
=27	China	0.5	2020	Eastern Asia
=27	South Korea	0.5	2023	Eastern Asia
29	Indonesia	0.3	2022	South-Eastern Asia
=30	Bahrain	0.2	2022	Western Asia
=30	Japan	0.2	2023	Eastern Asia
=30	Kuwait	0.2	2020	Western Asia
=33	Oman	0.1	2023	Western Asia
=33	Qatar	0.1	2022	Western Asia
=33	Singapore	0.1	2023	South-Eastern Asia

No World Bank figure for 13 countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, North Korea, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Yemen.

Territories and other places

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

Place	Per 100,000 people	Status
Macao	0.6	Territory of China
Palestine	0.6	Status disputed
Hong Kong	0.4	Territory of China

Questions

Which country in Asia has the highest homicide rate?: Mongolia has the highest homicide rate in Asia: 5.9 homicides per 100,000 people (2023). Next come Pakistan (4.3 homicides per 100,000 people) and the Philippines (4.3 homicides per 100,000 people).
Which country in Asia has the lowest homicide rate?: Singapore, with 0.1 homicides per 100,000 people (2023).
What is the typical homicide rate of a country in Asia?: The median of the 35 countries in Asia is 1.6 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. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

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.