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The following 50 cities have the highest homicide rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people. [1] This is based on 2022 data from El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), an advocacy group from Mexico City.
According to data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the rate of violent crime per 100,000 population in the last decade, between 2012 and 2022, has increased as follows: [40] Kidnapping: from 2.45 to 11.59 ( ~373%),
The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
Also, the data is revised periodically and so values from previous years may change accordingly. These tables contain the scores and ranking published in the official annual reports, for the latest revised data please visit the Interactive world map of the Global Peace Index Archived 2022-07-16 at the Wayback Machine.
The index found that the rate of homicides per 100,000 people in the UK had fallen from 1.99 in 2003, to one in 2012. Further, it found that the violent crime rate was down by about one quarter (from 1,255 per 100,000 people in 2003, to 933 in 2012), [1] with the southeast of the country as the most peaceful place to live (Broadland in Norfolk received the highest rank).
All the data in this table is from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). [2] There are 2 countries in the UNODC dataset that are missing from the table below: Egypt (2.062 rate in 2011) and India (0.297 rate in 2012). Asterisk (*) in Location column indicates a Crime in LOCATION article.
List of countries by intentional homicide rate; List of cities by murder rate; List of United States cities by crime rate (2012). 250,000+ United States cities by crime rate (100,000–250,000) United States cities by crime rate (60,000-100,000) List of federal subjects of Russia by murder rate; List of Brazilian states by murder rate
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