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Further information: Sex differences in crime

According to the data given by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, worldwide, 79% of homicide victims are men, and in 193 of the 202 listed countries or regions, men were more likely to be killed than women.[citation needed] In two, the ratio was 50:50 (Switzerland and British Virgin Islands), and in the remaining seven – Tonga, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Latvia, and Hong Kong – women were slightly more likely to be victims of homicides compared to males.[1] A 2000 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that men accounted for about 98 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide[2] and 79% of the victims (see the chart below). The highest female homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants was in Honduras and highest male homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants was in Lesotho.

Table

  • Rate: The homicide rate is per year per 100,000 inhabitants.
Homicide Victims by Gender, by Country.[1][2][3]
Location Total Male Female Year
Victims Rate % of total Victims Rate % of total Victims Rate
 Afghanistan 1,948 6.5 87.0 1,695 5.7 13.0 253 0.8 2010
 Albania 157 5.0 83.4 131 4.2 16.6 26 0.8 2009
 Algeria 280 0.7 84.0 235 0.6 16.0 45 0.1 2012
 Angola 2,079 10.0 81.2 1,688 8.1 18.8 391 1.9 2010
 Anguilla 1 7.5 100.0 1 7.5 0.0 0 0.0 2010
 Antigua and Barbuda 10 11.2 67.9 7 7.6 32.1 3 3.6 2011
 Argentina 2,237 5.5 83.6 1,870 4.6 16.4 367 0.9 2011
 Armenia 54 1.8 64.8 35 1.2 35.2 19 0.6 2011
 Aruba 4 3.9 100.0 4 3.9 0.0 0 0.0 2010
 Australia 254 1.1 67.3 171 0.7 32.7 83 0.4 2010
 Austria 65 0.7 43.1 28 0.6 56.9 37 0.8 2020
 Azerbaijan 194 2.1 69.9 136 1.5 30.1 58 0.6 2012
 Bahamas 111 29.8 87.4 97 26.0 12.6 14 3.8 2011
 Bahrain 7 0.5 85.6 6 0.4 14.4 1 0.1 2011
 Bangladesh 4,169 2.7 63.2 2,635 1.7 36.8 1,534 1.0 2010
 Barbados 21 7.4 67.7 14 5.0 32.3 7 2.4 2010
 Belarus 486 5.1 67.7 329 3.5 32.3 157 1.6 2012
 Belgium 182 1.6 56.6 103 0.9 43.4 79 0.7 2012
 Belize 145 44.7 90.3 131 40.4 9.7 14 4.3 2011
 Benin 848 8.4 71.1 603 6.0 28.9 245 2.4 2011
 Bhutan 12 1.7 61.2 7 1.0 38.8 5 0.7 2010
 Bolivia 1,270 12.1 77.3 982 9.4 22.7 288 2.7 2012
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 41 1.2 75.6 31 0.9 24.4 10 0.3 2017 [4]
 Botswana 368 18.4 76.0 280 14.0 24.0 88 4.4 2010
 Brazil 50,108 25.2 89.8 44,997 22.6 10.2 5,111 2.6 2010
 British Virgin Islands 2 8.4 50.0 1 4.2 50.0 1 4.2 2010
 Brunei 8 2.0 54.1 4 1.1 45.9 4 0.9 2010
 Bulgaria 141 1.9 82.3 116 1.6 17.7 25 0.3 2011
 Burkina Faso 1,311 8.0 67.2 881 5.4 32.8 430 2.6 2012
 Burma 8,044 15.2 61.5 4,947 9.3 38.5 3,097 5.9 2010
 Burundi 790 8.0 70.4 556 5.6 29.6 234 2.4 2010
 Cambodia 964 6.5 75.3 726 4.9 24.7 238 1.6 2010
 Cameroon 1,654 7.6 75.5 1,249 5.7 24.5 405 1.9 2012
 Canada 783 2.06 74.8 586 1.54 25.2 197 0.52 2021[5]
 Cape Verde 51 10.3 74.5 38 7.7 25.5 13 2.6 2010
 Cayman Islands 8 14.7 87.5 7 12.9 12.5 1 1.8 2010
 Central African Republic 532 11.8 85.6 455 10.1 14.4 77 1.7 2010
 Chad 907 7.3 71.2 646 5.2 28.8 261 2.1 2010
 Chile 550 3.1 81.9 450 2.5 18.1 100 0.6 2010
 China 13,410 1.0 78.1 10,473 0.8 21.9 2,937 0.2 2012
 China, Hong Kong SAR 27 0.4 47.1 13 0.2 52.9 14 0.2 2011
 China, Macao SAR 4 0.7 60.0 2 0.4 40.0 2 0.3 2010
 Colombia 14,670 30.8 91.6 13,438 28.2 8.4 1,232 2.6 2012
 Comoros 72 10.0 70.6 51 7.1 29.4 21 2.9 2010
 Congo 541 12.5 83.9 454 10.5 16.1 87 2.0 2011
 Costa Rica 407 8.5 87.7 357 7.5 12.3 50 1.0 2011
 Croatia 43 1.04 58.1 25 0.6 41.7 18 0.4 2017 [6]
 Cuba 477 4.2 75.0 358 3.2 25.0 119 1.1 2012
 Cyprus 23 2.0 77.3 18 1.5 22.7 5 0.5 2012
 Czech Republic 77 0.7 49.4 38 0.7 50.6 39 0.7 2020
 North Korea 1,293 5.2 77.1 997 4.0 22.9 296 1.2 2010
 DR Congo 18,586 28.3 80.8 15,017 22.9 19.2 3,569 5.4 2010
 Denmark 47 0.8 66.0 31 0.5 34.0 16 0.3 2010
 Djibouti 87 10.1 72.3 63 7.3 27.7 24 2.8 2012
 Dominica 15 21.1 87.5 13 18.5 12.5 2 2.6 2012
 Dominican Republic 2,268 22.1 91.1 2,066 20.1 8.9 202 2.0 2010
 East Timor 39 3.6 73.1 29 2.6 26.9 10 1.0 2010
 Ecuador 1,924 12.4 91.8 1,766 11.4 8.2 158 1.0 2010
 Egypt 2,703 3.4 87.8 2,373 3.0 12.2 330 0.4 2006
 El Salvador 2,594 41.2 89.0 2,309 36.7 11.0 285 4.5 2010
 Equatorial Guinea 142 19.3 82.5 117 15.9 17.5 25 3.4 2010
 Eritrea 437 7.1 74.4 325 5.3 25.6 112 1.8 2012
 Estonia 65 5.0 76.6 50 3.8 23.4 15 1.2 2010
 Ethiopia 11,048 12.0 77.2 8,529 9.3 22.8 2,519 2.7 2010
 Fiji 35 4.0 61.3 21 2.5 38.7 14 1.5 2005
 Finland 89 1.6 53.9 48 0.9 46.1 41 0.7 2010
 France 734 1.1 68.9 506 1.6 31.1 228 0.7 2021
 French Guiana 30 13.3 81.8 25 10.9 18.2 5 2.4 2012
 Gabon 148 9.1 83.9 124 7.6 16.1 24 1.5 2010
 Gambia 182 10.2 68.9 125 7.0 31.1 57 3.2 2010
 Georgia 187 4.3 75.7 142 3.3 24.3 45 1.0 2010
 Germany 782 0.9 54.3 425 1.0 45.7 357 0.9 2020
 Ghana 1,537 6.1 63.8 981 3.9 36.2 556 2.2 2011
 Greece 184 1.7 93.4 172 1.6 6.6 12 0.1 2010
 Grenada 14 13.3 64.3 9 8.6 35.7 5 4.7 2010
 Guadeloupe 36 7.9 84.2 30 6.7 15.8 6 1.2 2010
 Guatemala 6,025 39.9 88.9 5,356 35.5 11.1 669 4.4 2010
 Guinea 1,018 8.9 69.4 706 6.2 30.6 312 2.7 2010
 Guinea-Bissau 140 8.4 70.6 99 5.9 29.4 41 2.5 2012
 Guyana 135 17.0 60.0 81 10.2 40.0 54 6.8 2008
 Haiti 1,033 10.2 78.4 810 8.0 21.6 223 2.2 2012
 Honduras 7,172 90.4 93.2 6,684 84.3 6.8 488 6.1 2010
 Hungary 80 0.8 51.2 41 0.9 48.8 39 0.8 2020
 Iceland 1 0.3 0.0 0 0.0 100.0 1 0.3 2010
 India 43,355 3.5 59.2 25,666 2.1 40.8 17,689 1.4 2012
 Indonesia 1,456 0.6 80.3 1,169 0.5 19.7 287 0.1 2010
 Iran 3,126 4.1 81.9 2,560 3.4 18.1 566 0.7 2010
 Iraq 2,628 8.0 68.3 1,795 5.5 31.7 833 2.5 2010
 Ireland 54 1.2 86.7 47 1.0 13.3 7 0.2 2012
 Israel 134 1.8 72.8 98 1.3 27.2 36 0.5 2010
 Italy 530 0.9 69.9 370 0.6 30.1 160 0.3 2011
 Ivory Coast 2,691 13.6 76.0 2,045 10.3 24.0 646 3.3 2010
 Jamaica 1,087 39.3 89.5 973 35.2 10.5 114 4.1 2010
 Japan 318 0.3 41.2 131 0.2 58.8 187 0.3 2020
 Jordan 133 2.0 76.6 102 1.5 23.4 31 0.5 2010
 Kazakhstan 1,263 7.8 82.1 1,037 6.4 17.9 226 1.4 2010
 Kenya 2,761 6.4 76.6 2,115 4.9 23.4 646 1.5 2010
 Kiribati 8 8.2 69.4 6 5.7 30.6 2 2.5 2012
 Kuwait 12 0.4 83.6 10 0.3 16.4 2 0.1 2010
 Kyrgyzstan 494 9.1 68.7 339 6.3 31.3 155 2.8 2012
 Laos 392 5.9 79.4 311 4.7 20.6 81 1.2 2011
 Latvia 97 4.7 49.0 48 2.3 51.0 49 2.4 2010
 Lebanon 95 2.2 79.5 76 1.7 20.5 19 0.5 2012
 Lesotho 764 38.0 74.0 565 28.1 26.0 199 9.9 2010
 Liberia 135 3.2 70.1 95 2.2 29.9 40 1.0 2009
 Libya 103 1.7 76.8 79 1.3 23.2 24 0.4 2010
 Lithuania 202 6.7 73.8 149 4.9 26.2 53 1.8 2010
 Luxembourg 4 0.8 100.0 4 0.8 0.0 0 0.0 2011
 Macedonia 30 1.4 86.7 26 1.2 13.3 4 0.2 2010
 Madagascar 2,465 11.1 71.6 1,765 7.9 28.4 700 3.2 2010
 Malawi 279 1.8 87.5 244 1.6 12.5 35 0.2 2010
 Malaysia 652 2.3 72.6 473 1.7 27.4 179 0.6 2009
 Maldives 13 3.9 63.3 8 2.5 36.7 5 1.4 2010
 Mali 1,119 7.5 65.0 727 4.9 35.0 392 2.6 2012
 Malta 12 2.8 75.0 9 2.1 25.0 3 0.7 2011
 Marshall Islands 2 4.7 81.3 2 3.8 18.7 0 0.9 2012
 Martinique 11 2.7 72.7 8 2.0 27.3 3 0.7 2010
 Mauritania 191 5.0 68.9 132 3.4 31.1 59 1.6 2010
 Mauritius 34 2.8 76.5 26 2.1 23.5 8 0.7 2010
 Mexico 26,037 21.5 89.3 23,251 19.2 10.7 2,786 2.3 2012
 Micronesia 5 4.6 74.2 4 3.4 25.8 1 1.2 2008
 Moldova 229 6.5 72.5 166 4.7 27.5 63 1.8 2011
 Mongolia 266 9.7 77.4 206 7.5 22.6 60 2.2 2010
 Montenegro 17 2.7 82.4 14 2.2 17.6 3 0.5 2012
 Montserrat 1 20.4 100.0 1 20.4 0.0 0 0.0 2010
 Morocco 704 2.2 87.8 618 1.9 12.2 86 0.3 2010
 Mozambique 3,133 12.4 75.8 2,375 9.4 24.2 758 3.0 2010
 Namibia 388 17.2 76.3 296 13.1 23.7 92 4.1 2008
 Nepal 786 2.9 77.3 608 2.2 22.7 178 0.7 2010
 Netherlands 145 0.9 65.0 94 0.6 35.0 51 0.3 2012
 New Zealand 41 0.9 48.8 20 0.4 51.2 21 0.5 2010
 Nicaragua 675 11.3 92.6 625 10.5 7.4 50 0.8 2010
 Niger 803 4.7 66.1 531 3.1 33.9 272 1.6 2010
 Nigeria 33,817 20.0 68.2 23,063 13.6 31.8 10,754 6.4 2010
 Norway 111 2.2 53.2 59 1.2 46.8 52 1.0 2010
 Oman 34 1.1 73.3 25 0.8 26.7 9 0.3 2010
 Pakistan 13,846 7.7 76.7 10,620 5.9 23.3 3,226 1.8 2010
 Panama 654 17.2 94.6 619 16.3 5.4 35 0.9 2009
 Papua New Guinea 713 10.4 73.7 525 7.7 26.3 188 2.7 2010
 Paraguay 649 9.7 88.8 576 8.6 11.2 73 1.1 2009
 Peru 2,865 9.6 78.1 2,238 7.5 21.9 627 2.1 2010
 Philippines 8,484 8.8 88.0 7,466 7.7 12.0 1,018 1.1 2011
 Poland 449 1.2 73.2 329 0.9 26.8 120 0.3 2010
 Portugal 122 1.2 70.2 86 0.8 29.8 36 0.4 2011
 Puerto Rico 978 26.5 94.1 920 24.9 5.9 58 1.6 2010
 Qatar 23 1.1 81.9 19 0.9 18.1 4 0.2 2010
 Réunion 15 1.8 75.0 11 1.4 25.0 4 0.5 2010
 Romania 378 1.7 62.5 236 1.1 37.5 142 0.6 2010
 Russia 13,120 9.2 75.5 9,906 6.9 24.5 3,214 2.3 2012
 Rwanda 2,648 23.1 70.9 1,877 16.4 29.1 771 6.7 2012
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 18 33.6 90.5 16 30.4 9.5 2 3.2 2011
 Saint Lucia 39 21.6 79.7 31 17.2 20.3 8 4.4 2008
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 28 25.6 88.0 25 22.5 12.0 3 3.1 2010
 Samoa 7 3.6 81.2 6 2.9 18.8 1 0.7 2010
 São Tomé and Príncipe 6 3.3 74.6 4 2.5 25.4 2 0.8 2010
 Saudi Arabia 234 0.8 66.7 156 0.5 33.3 78 0.3 2011
 Senegal 379 2.8 74.8 283 2.1 25.2 96 0.7 2010
 Serbia 111 1.2 64.9 72 0.8 35.1 39 0.4 2010
 Seychelles 9 9.5 79.3 7 7.5 20.7 2 2.0 2010
 Sierra Leone 113 1.9 76.8 87 1.5 23.2 26 0.4 2012
 Singapore 11 0.2 62.5 7 0.1 37.5 4 0.1 2010
 Slovakia 75 1.4 68.0 51 1.0 32.0 24 0.4 2011
 Slovenia 14 0.7 57.1 8 0.4 42.9 6 0.3 2010
 Solomon Islands 24 4.3 74.8 18 3.2 25.2 6 1.1 2010
 Somalia 819 8.0 73.9 605 5.9 26.1 214 2.1 2012
 South Africa 16,259 31.0 84.6 13,755 26.2 15.4 2,504 4.8 2009
 South Korea 302 0.6 54.3 164 0.6 45.7 138 0.5 2020
 South Sudan 1,504 13.9 82.5 1,241 11.5 17.5 263 2.4 1994
 Spain 364 0.8 65.7 239 0.5 34.3 125 0.3 2009
 Sri Lanka 707 3.4 84.8 600 2.9 15.2 107 0.5 2012
 State of Palestine 312 7.4 87.6 273 6.5 12.4 39 0.9 2010
 Sudan 4,159 11.2 85.3 3,548 9.6 14.7 611 1.6 2011
 Suriname 33 6.1 75.3 25 4.6 24.7 8 1.5 2010
 Swaziland 416 33.8 77.9 324 26.3 22.1 92 7.5 2011
 Sweden 68 0.7 68.1 46 0.5 31.9 22 0.2 2010
 Switzerland 47 0.5 42.6 20 0.5 57.4 27 0.6 2020
 Syria 463 2.2 84.0 389 1.8 16.0 74 0.4 2010
 Taiwan 686 3.0 86.6 594 2.6 13.4 92 0.4 2009
 Tajikistan 126 1.6 86.5 109 1.4 13.5 17 0.2 2010
 Tanzania 6,071 12.7 73.0 4,432 9.3 27.0 1,639 3.4 2010
 Thailand 3,307 5.0 87.7 2,900 4.4 12.3 407 0.6 2007
 Togo 684 10.3 71.5 489 7.4 28.5 195 2.9 2010
 Tonga 1 1.0 0.0 0 0.0 100.0 1 1.0 2010
 Trinidad and Tobago 379 28.3 91.7 348 26.0 8.3 31 2.3 2010
 Tunisia 235 2.2 77.0 181 1.7 23.0 54 0.5 2010
 Turkey 1,866 2.6 79.5 1,483 2.1 20.5 383 0.5 2011
 Turkmenistan 660 12.8 83.8 553 10.7 16.2 107 2.1 2010
 Turks and Caicos Islands 2 6.6 100.0 2 6.6 0.0 0 0.0 2010
 Uganda 3,753 10.7 86.2 3,235 9.2 13.8 518 1.5 2010
 Ukraine 1,988 4.3 68.6 1,364 2.9 31.4 624 1.4 2009
 United Arab Emirates 235 2.6 86.8 204 2.3 13.2 31 0.3 2012
 United Kingdom 653 1.0 70.3 459 0.7 29.7 194 0.3 2012
 United States 21,570 7.8 82 17687 6.4 18 3883 1.4 2020[7][8]
 US Virgin Islands 56 52.6 87.5 49 46.0 12.5 7 6.6 2010
 Uruguay 267 7.9 79.4 212 6.3 20.6 55 1.6 2010
 Uzbekistan 1,060 3.7 82.4 873 3.0 17.6 187 0.7 2010
 Vanuatu 7 2.9 72.0 5 2.1 28.0 2 0.8 2011
 Venezuela 16,072 53.7 91.9 14,770 49.4 8.1 1,302 4.3 2010
 Vietnam 3,037 3.3 71.5 2,171 2.4 28.5 866 0.9 2011
 Yemen 1,099 4.8 79.5 874 3.8 20.5 225 1.0 2012
 Zambia 1,501 10.7 77.8 1,168 8.3 22.2 333 2.4 2011
 Zimbabwe 1,450 10.6 71.8 1,041 7.6 28.2 409 3.0 2010
 World 436,621 78.7 343,582 21.3 93,033

Charts

Homicide Victims per Year by Country and Gender (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2013)
Homicide Rate per Year by Country and Gender (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2013)

References

  1. ^ a b UNDOC Homicide Statistics 2013 used tables: Homicide counts and rates & Percentage of male and female homicide victims Retrieved May-31-2014
  2. ^ a b Gibbons, Jonathan (2013). "Global Study on Homicide" (PDF). www.unodc.org. United National Office of Drugs and Crime (Vienna).
  3. ^ "dp-intentional-homicide-victims | dataUNODC". dataunodc.un.org. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  4. ^ http://bhas.gov.ba/data/Publikacije/Bilteni/2019/NUM_00_2018_TB_0_BS.pdf [bare URL PDF]
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  7. ^ "Vital Statistics". CDC. 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  8. ^ "Pew Research Center". Pew Research Center. 2021. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
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