Murder Rates Around The World

Murder Rates per country can vary from almost minimal to very high..

A report on 219 countries or territories around the world show the following examples:

• El Salvador has 108.64 murders per 100,000 people, putting them in position 1 out of 219 countries
• United States Virgin Islands (US) has 52.64 murders per 100,000 people, putting them in position 4 out of 219 countries
• Philippines has 9.84 murders per 100,000 people, putting them in position 48 out of 219 countries
• United States has 4.88 murders per 100,000 people, putting them in position 94 out of 219 countries
• Canada has 1.68 murders per 100,000 people, putting them in position 158 out of 219 countries
• Australia has 0.98 murders per 100,000 people, putting them in position 179 out of 219 countries
• United Kingdom has 0.92 murders per 100,000 people, putting them in position 183 out of 219 countries
• New Zealand has 0.91 murders per 100,000 people, putting them in position 185 out of 219 countries
• Monaco (and another 3 locations) has 0 murders per 100,000 people, putting them in position 219 out of 219 countries

The majority of these figures were from reports in 2015.

The data used for the above figures is from reports produced by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.