Homicide Statistics - City data

Intentional homicide count and rate per 100,000 population in the most populous city, by country (2000 - 2010)
Intentional homicide is defined as unlawful death purposefully inflicted on a person by another person
Region Subregion Country/Territory City Source Variable Year
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Africa Eastern Africa Kenya Nairobi CTS Rate 7.1 7.0 6.1
Count 201 196 177
Mauritius Port Louis CTS Rate 5.4 3.4
Count 8 5
Uganda Kampala National police Rate
Count
United Republic of Tanzania Dar es Salaam NGO Rate 12.9
Count 362
Zambia Lusaka National police Rate 8.5 8.1 8.6
Count 128 121 129
Middle Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa UN-PKO Rate
Count
Northern Africa Algeria Algiers CTS Rate 0.8 0.5
Count 21 13
Egypt Cairo CTS Rate 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.7
Count 11 25 21 49
Morocco Casablanca CTS Rate 1.0 1.0 1.2 0.8
Count 35 36 44 30
Sudan Khartoum CTS Rate
Count
Southern Africa Botswana Gaborone CTS Rate
Count
Lesotho Maseru CTS Rate
Count
South Africa Cape Town National police Rate 77.0 86.0 60.0 55.0 55.4 61.0
 Count 2,306 2,629 1,871 1,749 1,797 2,016
Western Africa Ghana Accra National police Rate
Count
Liberia Monrovia UN-PKO Rate
Count
Sierra Leone Freetown CTS Rate
Count
Americas Caribbean Bahamas Nassau CTS Rate
Count
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo CTS Rate 37.3 29.7
Count 367 292
Haiti Port au Prince UN-PKO Rate
Count
Jamaica Kingston CTS/National police Rate 33.7 50.8 33.1
Count 220 331 216
Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre National police Rate 26.6 32.5 25.6
Count 4 5 4
Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain CTS Rate 28.5 43.3 36.7
Count 77 117 99
Central America Belize Belize City CTS Rate 54.0 60.3 61.9
Count 34 38 39
Costa Rica San Jose CTS Rate 6.2 6.7
Count 123 133
El Salvador San Salvador CTS Rate 88.2
Count 1,381
Guatemala Guatemala City CTS/National police Rate 94.7 102.1 108.0
Count 1,018 1,098 1,161
Honduras Tegucigalpa National police Rate
Count
Mexico Mexico City CTS Rate 8.0 7.9 7.3
Count 710 698 649
Nicaragua Managua CTS Rate 11.7 14.1
 Count 162 178
Panama Panama City CTS Rate 13.1 15.8 15.0
Count 207 256 248
Northern America Canada Toronto CTS Rate 1.7 1.7 1.9 1.8
Count 89 88 99 96
United States of America New York CTS Rate 7.2 6.8 6.5 7.1
Count 597 570 539 596
South America Argentina Buenos Aires CTS Rate 4.3 3.8
Count 130 116
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) La Paz CTS Rate 5.5 5.2
Count 46 44
Brazil Sao Paolo National police Rate 20.8 16.8 13.9
Count 8,746 7,053 5,832
Colombia Bogota National police Rate 22.3 23.2 18.8
Count 1,571 1,669 1,372
Ecuador Quito CTS Rate 11.4 13.8
Count 229 277
Paraguay Asuncion CTS Rate 13.1 10.6
Count 68 55
Peru Lima NSO Rate 3.9
Count 298
Uruguay Montevideo Ministry of Interior Rate
Count
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Caracas NGO Rate 113.0 92.0 118.0 119.0 90.0 88.0 107.0
Count 2,310 1,884 2,436 2,461 1,871 1,926 2,218
Asia Central Asia Kazakhstan Almaty CTS Rate 11.5 10.9
Count 173 164
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek CTS Rate 9.4 9.9 15.3 12.2
Count 80 84 130 104
Tajikistan Dushanbe CTS Rate 8.2 6.0 6.0
Count 52 38 39
Turkmenistan Ashkhabad CTS Rate 3.6 3.5
 Count 33 33
Eastern Asia Japan Tokyo CTS Rate 0.4 0.4
Count 47 55
Mongolia Ulan Bator CTS Rate 16.8 15.5 16.3 15.7
Count 162 150 157 152
Republic of Korea Seoul CTS Rate
Count
South-Eastern Asia Indonesia Jakarta NGO Rate 0.7
Count 71
Malaysia Kuala Lampur CTS Rate 3.0 4.4
Count 47 70
Myanmar Yangon NSO Rate 2.9
Count 114
Philippines Quezon City CTS Rate 1.2 3.0 2.0
Count 28 69 47
Thailand Bangkok CTS Rate 5.5 5.8
Count 311 327
Timor-Leste Dili UN-PKO Rate
Count
Southern Asia Bangladesh Dhaka CTS Rate 3.6 5.3
Count 231 344
India Mumbai CTS Rate 1.5 1.3 1.5
Count 253 212 239
Maldives Male CTS Rate
Count
Nepal Kathmandu CTS Rate 19.2 18.5
Count 172 166
Sri Lanka Colombo National police Rate 2.6
Count 66
Western Asia Armenia Yerevan CTS Rate 0.6 0.8
Count 20 26
Azerbaijan Baku CTS Rate 3.5 3.5
 Count 70 70
Cyprus Nicosia CTS Rate 1.3 1.0 2.6
Count 4 3 8
Georgia Tbilisi CTS Rate 13.1 7.8
Count 141 86
Israel Tel Aviv CTS Rate 4.6 4.8 6.1 3.8
Count 18 19 24 15
Jordan Amman CTS Rate 1.5 1.8
Count 23 40
Kuwait Kuwait City CTS Rate 0.3 1.0 1.1
Count 2 8 9
Occupied Palestinian Territory Hebron CTS Rate 3.2
Count 17
Oman Muscat CTS Rate
Count
Qatar Doha CTS Rate
Count
Syrian Arab Republic Aleppo CTS Rate
Count
Turkey Istanbul CTS Rate 6.7 6.8 7.3 6.7
Count 842 854 923 842
United Arab Emirates Dubai CTS Rate 1.9 1.5
Count 25 20
Europe Eastern Europe Belarus Minsk CTS Rate 4.0 4.6 4.7
Count 73 85 87
Bulgaria Sofia CTS Rate 3.8 3.0 3.1 2.2
Count 46 37 38 27
Czech Republic Prague CTS Rate 3.9 4.1 3.1 3.3
Count 45 48 37 39
Hungary Budapest Eurostat/CTS Rate 2.3 1.9 1.8 1.8
Count 39 32 31 30
Poland Warsaw Eurostat/CTS Rate 2.9 2.1 2.2 2.1
 Count 49 36 37 36
Republic of Moldova Chishinau CTS Rate 9.4 7.3 7.2
Count 73 57 56
Romania Bucharest Eurostat/CTS Rate 1.3 1.2 1.4 1.3
Count 25 24 27 25
Russian Federation Moscow CTS Rate 8.8 7.4 7.4
Count 912 766 767
Slovakia Bratislava CTS Rate 4.0 4.2 2.6 3.5
Count 17 18 11 15
Ukraine Kiev CTS Rate 5.0 4.4 4.4
Count 139 122 122
Northern Europe Denmark Copenhagen Eurostat Rate 1.6 1.2 3.2 1.8
Count 8 6 16 9
Estonia Tallinn Eurostat/CTS Rate 10.6 8.6 10.1 7.3
Count 42 34 40 29
Finland Helsinki CTS Rate 3.9 2.3 2.5
Count 22 13 14
Iceland Reykjavik CTS Rate 1.0 0.0
Count 2 0
Ireland Dublin Eurostat Rate 2.4 1.8 2.8 2.7
Count 27 20 31 33
Latvia Riga Eurostat Rate 12.9 10.5 5.2 7.6
Count 95 77 38 55
Lithuania Vilnius Eurostat/CTS Rate 9.8 8.5 8.5 6.9
Count 54 47 47 38
Norway Oslo CTS Rate 2.0 1.4 1.6 1.6
Count 11 8 9 9
United Kingdom (England and Wales) London CTS Rate 2.9 2.6 2.4 2.2
Count 212 195 177 169
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) Belfast CTS Rate 2.9 2.2 4.9 4.1
Count 8 6 13 11
United Kingdom (Scotland) Glasgow CTS Rate 4.0 3.1 4.5
 Count 23 18 26
Southern Europe Albania Tirana CTS Rate 1.1
Count 9
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo CTS Rate 1.8 2.0
Count 9 10
Croatia Zagreb CTS Rate 1.9 0.9 2.1 1.4
Count 15 7 16 11
Greece Athens Eurostat Rate 0.9 0.9 1.1 1.0
Count 29 32 39 35
Italy Rome Eurostat Rate 1.1 1.2 1.4 1.2
Count 29 31 37 30
Montenegro Podgorica CTS Rate 5.0 3.9 6.7 5.5
Count 9 7 12 11
Portugal Lisbon Eurostat/CTS Rate 0.6 0.5 0.7 0.8
Count 11 10 15 16
Serbia Belgrade CTS Rate 2.9 2.8
Count 46 45
Slovenia Ljubljana CTS Rate 1.1 2.6 1.5 0.4
Count 3 7 4 1
Spain Madrid CTS Rate 1.1 1.2
Count 36 37
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Skopje Ministry of Interior Rate 3.4 2.8 4.0
Count 18 15 21
Western Europe Austria Vienna CTS Rate 1.1 0.9 1.3 1.1
Count 18 15 22 18
Belgium Brussels CTS Rate 3.4 4.2 6.9 4.8 3.9 3.1 3.6
Count 33 41 68 48 39 32 37
France Paris CTS Rate 2.6 1.0 1.6 1.3
Count 55 21 34 29
Germany Berlin CTS Rate 2.2 2.3 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.8 1.5
Count 76 77 68 68 67 60 50
Netherlands Amsterdam Eurostat/NSO Rate 5.3 3.7 4.3 2.3
 Count 39 27 32 17
Oceania Australia and New Zealand Australia Sydney NSO Rate 1.4 1.1 1.2 1.4
Count 60 46 51 62
New Zealand Auckland CTS Rate 1.3 1.6
Count 19 23
Melanesia Solomon Islands Honiara City CTS Rate 3.5 5.2 20.8
Count 2 3 12

Data sources:
Data are provided to UNODC annually by national police, national statistical offices or other competent national authorities through the United Nations Surveys on Crime Tren
Detailed information on can be found on http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/United-Nations-Surveys-on-Crime-Trends-and-the-Operations-of-Criminal-Justice-Sy
CTS

Eurostat The statistical office of the European Union. Offences recorded by the police.
NGO Non-governmental organization
NSO National Statistical Office
UN-PKO UN Peacekeeping Operations
Year
2007 2008 2009 2010

4.1 4.0
121 117
5.4 9.4 7.4
8 14 11
13.4 15.3
401 459

10.8 3.1 9.5 8.1

162 46 142 121
1.6
163
0.4 0.5
15 19
0.7 0.7 0.6
49 51 43
1.1 1.0 1.4
41 36 52
5.0
263
16.1
36
64.1 59.7 61.9
146 136 141
59.9
2,018
1.3 1.3
46 48
4.6 6.7 5.7 4.9
46 68 58 50
5.8 8.0
52 72
28.5
71

23.8 13.1 24.1 40.1

294 162 297 495
43.1 29.0 26.8 20.2
281 189 175 132
50.6 50.0 97.6 47.4
8 8 16 8
31.9 60.7 47.0
86 164 127
65.1 70.5 81.0 106.4
41 47 54 71

94.6
1,496
115.3 109.0 118.3 116.6
1,239 1,172 1,272 1,253
72.7
802
8.0 8.0 8.4
714 713 747
 18.1 27.0 34.6
305 465 610
1.9 1.8 1.5
103 101 84
5.9 6.3 5.6
496 523 471
3.9
119

11.6 10.5 10.8

4,871 4,426 4,557
18.2 17.8 17.4 17.1
1,351 1,341 1,327 1,327

6.5
86
130.5 127.0 122.0
2,710 2,653 2,550
8.7 11.3
130 170
11.0 10.5
93 89
5.0 3.4 3.7
32 22 24
 0.4 0.6 0.4
55 83 55
14.8 11.5 10.2
143 111 98
2.4
249

1.9 2.0 5.3

43 46 123
5.0 4.5 4.0
283 252 225
11.3
17

1.4 1.3 1.3

230 210 217
6.7 5.0
8 6

2.2 2.2 1.2

55 55 31
0.9 1.2 0.9
29 40 28
3.3 3.3
 67 67
1.0 1.0 1.3
3 3 4
8.2 4.9 5.0 3.4
90 56 57 39
4.3 4.6
17 18

1.3 1.2 1.2

12 11 11

0.6 0.6
4 4
1.3 1.1
5 4
2.9 2.5
155 131
5.2 4.7
656 596

2.7 3.0 2.6

49 56 48
1.9 2.2 1.8
24 27 23
3.3 2.6 2.7
40 32 34
1.0 1.5 2.1
17 26 35
2.2 1.5 1.9
 37 25 33
6.5 4.6 5.5 5.3
51 36 43 42
1.1 0.9 0.9
22 17 18
6.0 6.0 4.6
629 626 481
3.8 2.1 2.1
16 9 9
3.4 3.4 4.2
95 93 115
1.4 1.6
7 8
8.8 6.0 7.3
35 24 29
1.8 2.8 1.2
10 16 7
1.0 0.0 0.5
2 0 1
2.5 2.1
31 26
5.4 4.8 5.4
39 34 38
7.4 10.6 5.4
41 59 30
1.4 2.1 1.2
8 12 7
2.2 2.1 1.6
164 155 119
2.2 1.5 2.6
6 4 7
4.1 4.1 3.3
24 24 19
1.6 2.8
13 22

0.8 1.9 0.6

6 15 5
0.9 1.3
32 45
1.3 1.1
36 30
0.5 3.5
1 7
0.6 0.5 0.2
13 10 5
2.4 2.2 1.4
39 35 23
1.1 0.0 0.4
3 0 1
1.1 1.2 1.0
34 39 32
4.0 2.3 2.3 2.3
21 12 12 12
1.2 0.9 1.1
20 15 19
1.9 3.9 3.0
20 42 33
1.5 1.6
33 35
1.2 1.2 1.8 1.1
42 42 61 37
4.4 2.7 4.4
 33 20 33
1.1
49
0.8 1.3
11 19
33.0 19.1
19 11

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