List of countries by firearm-related homicide rates

Homicide rates (from firearms) per 100,000 people by country

This is a list of countries by firearm-related homicide rate per 100,000 population by year.

Homicide figures may include justifiable homicides along with criminal homicides, depending upon jurisdiction and reporting standards. Not included are accidental deaths, or justifiable deaths by any means other than by firearm.

Table of homicide rates from firearms

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.

Homicide rates by firearm per 100,000 inhabitants.

Location	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
Albania *	1.126	1.751	1.430	1.635	1.599	1.528	1.493	1.596	2.427
Algeria	0.096	0.140	0.133	0.084	0.091	0.129	0.136	0.217	0.106
Andorra								0	0
Antigua and Barbuda *	8.532	4.291	3.238	2.171	3.274	10.975	4.417	1.112
Argentina *	2.305	2.418	2.685	2.521	2.733	2.826		3.655
Armenia *				0.674	0.212	0.631	0.523	0.903	0.277
Australia *	0.103	0.096	0.078	0.150	0.100	0.094	0.132	0.113	0.153
Austria *	0.145	0.179	0.135	0.101	0.090	0.182	0.103	0.058	0.105
Azerbaijan *		0.165	0.175	0.186	0.148	0.179	0.180
Bahamas	28.538	25.496	14.269	19.528	20.154	26.816	23.739	28.521	26.983
Barbados	11.717	6.046	9.263	11.064	6.436	8.238	5.742	6.832	6.126
Belarus									0.206
Belize *	22.454	22.748	20.004	23.388	25.127	21.885	22.324	19.729	20.151
Bermuda		4.674	3.124	0	4.719	4.741	7.928	1.584	3.157
Bhutan *			0	0	0	0	0	0
Bolivia *	0.384	0.306	0.184	0.272	0.267	0.376	0.169	0.099
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.495	0.428	0.362	0.625	0.441	0.669	0.546	0.908	0.644
Brazil *			15.945
Bulgaria *						0.237	0.152	0.287	0.244
Cape Verde *					1.926	2.124	5.552	2.717	4.761
Canada *	0.889	0.781	0.736	0.704	0.678	0.730	0.617	0.501	0.438
Chile *	3.637	2.221	2.617	1.854	2.016	1.818	1.532	1.466	1.442
Colombia *	18.127	18.252	16.344	16.149	16.470	18.357	18.528	19.682	21.126
Costa Rica *		8.304	7.905	7.474	7.955	8.711	7.765	7.865	6.750
Croatia	0.223	0.172	0.268	0.363	0.120	0.572	0.331	0.165	0.373
Cyprus *	0.160	0.402	0.242	0.163	0.164	0.165	0.501	0.505	0.255
Czech Republic *	0.095	0.076	0.047	0.085		0.076	0.066	0.019	0.095
Denmark *					0.052	0.139	0.175
Dominica		1.381	9.723	9.800	9.884	8.522	2.854	0	0
Dominican Republic *	6.724	6.116	4.409	4.264	4.914	5.767	5.918		11.116
Ecuador *	22.565	10.248	4.588	3.759	2.727	3.025	2.731	3.365	4.355
Egypt *
El Salvador *	4.782	11.181	14.715	27.929	41.441	47.984	68.106	88.845	48.393
Eswatini		1.426
Finland *				0.091	0.218	0.109	0.164	0.219	0.201
France *						0.100	0.142
Georgia *					0.848				0.768
Germany *			0.065	0.048	0.045	0.052	0.069
Greece *	0.318	0.268	0.257	0.236	0.329	0.206	0.242
Grenada		0	1.617	0	2.462	0	0.834	0
Guatemala *		3.436	3.554	6.197	6.712	8.457	33.380		26.270
Guyana *		2.983	3.387	4.131	2.546	2.882	4.216	5.695
Holy See	0	0						0	0
Honduras *		28.721	26.962	30.194	27.112	29.158	41.868	42.294	53.364
Hong Kong *	0	0	0	0	0.027	0	0	0	0.014
Hungary *	0.040	0.021	0.072	0.031	0.123	0	0.041		0.030
Iceland		0.270	0	0	0	0	0.298	0	0
India *
Iran *								0.369	0.543
Italy *	0.202	0.154	0.171
Jamaica *	44.706	44.206	39.639	39.769	36.097	47.857	39.248	34.855	25.677
Japan *				0.003	0.003	0.002
Jordan *	0.425	0.242	0.311	0.449	0.335	0.460
Kazakhstan *			0.105			0.349			0.261
Liechtenstein							0
Lithuania			0.106	0.070	0.139	0.241	0.102
Luxembourg									0.180
Macau *								0	0
Malta		0	0.776	0.596	0.203	0.417	0	0.438	0.672
Mauritius *	0	0.154
Mexico *	17.497	19.333	20.346	20.679	20.723	17.842	13.106	10.654	10.058
Monaco								0
Mongolia		0.090	0.061	0	0.190	0.065	0.099	0.101	0.276
Montenegro *	1.914	1.115	1.908	2.062	1.109	1.739	2.527	1.577	1.892
Morocco	0.024	0.005		0.094	0.025	0.014	0.009	0.043	0.006
Netherlands	0.216	0.194	0.184	0.190	0.185	0.209	0.152	0.182	0.236
New Zealand *				1.230	0.248	0.232	0.171	0.152	0.133
Nicaragua		2.000		3.286	6.117	2.886	3.302
North Macedonia		0.238	0.189	0.568		0.758	0.237	0.854	1.092
Northern Ireland *	0.157	0.210	0.158	0.264	0.106	0.107	0.322	0.270	0.109
Oman *	0.066			0.065	0.022	0	0.045	0
Palestine *		0.370
Panama *		10.227	9.361	8.624	7.058	6.494	7.078	8.087	11.289
Paraguay *		4.803	4.351	5.360	4.609	5.491	6.670	6.442	5.746
Peru *			2.937	2.288	3.357	3.113	3.312	3.416	4.194
Philippines *				1.103	1.567	3.050	4.286
Puerto Rico *							18.382	15.898	17.697
Moldova *			0.227	0.289	0.255	0.283			0.120
Saint Kitts and Nevis *		25.207	12.594	18.863	33.500	39.761	60.685
Saint Lucia *	30.580	26.162	22.317	17.359	12.367	18.062
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines		20.128	17.203	9.531	20.897	22.738	27.368
Serbia *	0.235	0.151	0.272	0.351	0.552	0.415	0.173	0.186
Slovakia *	0.071	0.055	0.055	0.275	0.110	0.184	0.276	0.055	0.240
Slovenia *	0.142	0	0	0.284	0.095	0.143	0.048	0.048	0.193
South Korea *		0
Scotland *		0.018	0.055	0.018	0.055	0.037	0.019	0.019	0
Spain *	0.105	0.082	0.078	0.112	0.105	0.135	0.084	0.097	0.121
Sri Lanka *				0.074	0.343	0.237	0.224	0.211	0.240
Suriname *	3.398	2.610	2.141	1.666	3.369	1.362	2.580
Sweden *	0.597	0.430	0.463	0.438	0.423	0.398	0.301	0.335	0.287
Switzerland *	0.137	0.092	0.104	0.128	0.153	0.166	0.191	0.205	0.085
Tajikistan			0.063
Tanzania								0.103	0.152
Thailand *							1.464	1.805
Trinidad and Tobago *			20.551	28.488	27.647	25.497		23.285	20.956
Uganda		0.661	0.561			0.426	0.431
United Arab Emirates *		0.043		0
United Kingdom *		0.047			0.054	0.048	0.055	0.041	0.037
United States *			4.054	3.152	3.156	3.342	3.178	2.804	2.581
Uruguay	6.807	5.370	6.387	7.175	8.696	4.968	4.745	5.877	4.806
Uzbekistan				0.012	0.009	0.022	0.035

Table

All the data in this table is from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). ^[2] This format allows for easier sorting, ranking, and comparison of countries.

• Asterisk (*) in Location column indicates a Crime in LOCATION article.

Homicide rates by firearm per 100,000 inhabitants. Latest available year.

Location	Rate	Year
Albania *	1.126	2022
Algeria	0.096	2022
Andorra	0	2015
Antigua and Barbuda *	8.532	2022
Argentina *	2.305	2022
Armenia *	0.674	2019
Australia *	0.103	2022
Austria *	0.145	2022
Azerbaijan *	0.165	2021
Bahamas	28.538	2022
Barbados	11.717	2022
Belarus	0.206	2014
Belize *	22.454	2022
Bermuda	4.674	2021
Bhutan *	0	2020
Bolivia *	0.384	2022
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.495	2022
Brazil *	15.945	2020
Bulgaria *	0.237	2017
Cape Verde *	1.926	2018
Canada *	0.889	2022
Chile *	3.637	2022
Colombia *	18.127	2022
Costa Rica *	8.304	2021
Croatia	0.223	2022
Cyprus *	0.160	2022
Czech Republic *	0.095	2022
Denmark *	0.052	2018
Dominica	1.381	2021
Dominican Republic *	6.724	2022
Ecuador *	22.565	2022
Egypt *	2.062	2011
El Salvador *	4.782	2022
Eswatini	1.426	2021
Finland *	0.091	2019
France *	0.100	2017
Georgia *	0.848	2018
Germany *	0.065	2020
Greece *	0.318	2022
Grenada	0	2021
Guatemala *	3.436	2021
Guyana *	2.983	2021
Holy See	0	2022
Honduras *	28.721	2021
Hong Kong *	0	2022
Hungary *	0.040	2022
Iceland	0.270	2021
India *	0.297	2012
Iran *	0.369	2015
Italy *	0.202	2022
Jamaica *	44.706	2022
Japan *	0.003	2019
Jordan *	0.425	2022
Kazakhstan *	0.105	2020
Liechtenstein	0	2016
Lithuania	0.106	2020
Luxembourg	0.180	2014
Macau *	0	2015
Malta	0	2021
Mauritius *	0	2022
Mexico *	17.497	2022
Monaco	0	2015
Mongolia	0.090	2021
Montenegro *	1.914	2022
Morocco	0.024	2022
Netherlands	0.216	2022
New Zealand *	1.230	2019
Nicaragua	2.000	2021
North Macedonia	0.238	2021
Northern Ireland *	0.157	2022
Oman *	0.066	2022
Palestine *	0.370	2021
Panama *	10.227	2021
Paraguay *	4.803	2021
Peru *	2.937	2020
Philippines *	1.103	2019
Puerto Rico *	18.382	2016
Moldova *	0.227	2020
Saint Kitts and Nevis *	25.207	2021
Saint Lucia *	30.580	2022
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	20.128	2021
Scotland *	0.018	2021
Serbia *	0.235	2022
Slovakia *	0.071	2022
Slovenia *	0.142	2022
South Korea *	0	2021
Spain *	0.105	2022
Sri Lanka *	0.074	2019
Suriname *	3.398	2022
Sweden *	0.597	2022
Switzerland *	0.137	2022
Tajikistan	0.063	2020
Tanzania	0.103	2015
Thailand *	1.464	2016
Trinidad and Tobago *	20.551	2020
Uganda	0.661	2021
United Arab Emirates *	0.043	2021
United Kingdom *	0.047	2021
United States *	4.054	2020
Uruguay	6.807	2022
Uzbekistan	0.012	2019

Charts and graphs

List of countries by firearm-related death rate—including homicides, suicides and accidental deaths

Gun homicide rates as a function of gun ownership rates ^[3]

The U.S. substantially exceeds all other developed countries in mass shooting deaths. ^[4]

Gun-related homicide and suicide rates in high-income OECD countries, 2010, sorted by total gun-related deaths (suicide plus intentional homicide, plus other) ^[5]

The 25 countries with the highest intentional homicide rates are generally less populous countries. Rates of the 25 most populous countries are shown in blue. ^[6]

See also

• Firearm death rates in the United States by state
• List of countries by intentional homicide rate
• List of countries by suicide rate
• List of cities by murder rate
• List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate
• List of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate
• List of United States cities by crime rate (250,000+)
• Percent of households with guns by country
• United States cities by crime rate (100,000–250,000)
• United States cities by crime rate (60,000-100,000)
• Index of gun politics articles
• Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country

References

1. Homicide rate from firearms, 2005 to 2021. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime – processed by Our World in Data. Click the download button for 2005-2021 data.
2. "dp-intentional-homicide-victims. dataUNODC". United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime . Use dataset link to download csv file. It is more complete than the table on the entry page.
3. Fox, Kara; Shveda, Krystina; Croker, Natalie; Chacon, Marco (November 26, 2021). "How US gun culture stacks up with the world". CNN. Archived from the original on November 26, 2021. CNN's attribution: Developed countries are defined based on the UN classification, which includes 36 countries. Source: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (Global Burden of Disease 2019), Small Arms Survey (Civilian Firearm Holdings 2017)
4. Lopez, German (26 May 2022). "America's Gun Problem". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Source: Jason R. Silva, William Paterson University
5. Grinshteyn, Erin; Hemenway, David (March 2016). "Violent Death Rates: The US Compared with Other High-income OECD Countries, 2010". The American Journal of Medicine. 129 (3): 266–273. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.10.025 . PMID   26551975. (Table 4). ([https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)01030-X/pdf PDF Archived 2019-02-02 at the Wayback Machine ).
6. "Home >> Intentional Homicide Victims". dataunodc.un.org. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime . Retrieved 23 October 2020.

External links

• Systematic comparison of 195 countries and territories for the period from 1990 to 2016: Naghavi, Mohsen; et al. (28 August 2018). "Global Mortality From Firearms, 1990-2016". JAMA. 320 (8): 792–814. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.10060 . ISSN   0098-7484. PMC   6143020 . PMID   30167700. ^[1]
• "Murder Victims by Weapon, 2013–2017". Uniform Crime Reports for 2017. FBI.
• "Fatal Injury Data". Centers for Disease Control. January 18, 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  • "Fatal Injury Mapping". Centers for Disease Control. Archived from the original on 2012-01-25. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
• "Statistics and Data: Crime Data". dataunodc.un.org. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
  • Historic data can be found on the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS) page.
• "International Homicide Comparisons". GunCite.com. May 20, 2006. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
• "Global Impacts of Gun Violence". gunpolicy.org. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
• "Deaths Due to Injury by Firearms per 100,000 Population". StateHealthFacts.org. Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
• Greg Barrow (2000-02-15). "SA gun deaths rise". BBC News.
• "Victims of crime survey 2011" (PDF). statssa.gov.za. Statistics, South African Government.
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Fast Facts - Suicide and Self Injury, Injuries, and Homicide
• "European Detailed Mortality Database". data.euro.who.int. World Health Organization, Regional office for Europe.
  • "CoDQL (Cause of Death Query online)". World Health Organization. Archived from the original on January 15, 2015. —Causes of death by year from countries that have reported to the WHO. Firearm deaths correspond to ICD-10 codes W32-W34, Accidental discharge of firearm; X72-X74, Intentional self-harm by firearm; X93-X95, Assault by firearm; Y22-Y24, Firearm discharge, undetermined intent.
• Krug, EG; Powell, KE; Dahlberg, LL (1998). "Firearm-related deaths in the United States and 35 other high- and upper-middle-income countries". International Journal of Epidemiology. 27 (2): 214–221. doi: 10.1093/ije/27.2.214 . PMID   9602401. —Contains statistics from 36 countries between 1990 and 1995.

1. Naghavi, Mohsen; et al. (28 August 2018). "Global Mortality From Firearms, 1990-2016". JAMA. 320 (8): 792–814. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.10060 . ISSN   0098-7484. PMC   6143020 . PMID   30167700.