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Crime Statistics > Murders (per capita) (most recent) by country
VIEW DATA: Totals Per capita
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Countries Amount # 1
Colombia:0.617847 per 1,000 people
# 2
South Africa:0.496008 per 1,000 people
# 3
Jamaica:0.324196 per 1,000 people
# 4
Venezuela:0.316138 per 1,000 people
# 5
Russia:0.201534 per 1,000 people
# 6
Mexico:0.130213 per 1,000 people
# 7
Estonia:0.107277 per 1,000 people
# 8
Latvia:0.10393 per 1,000 people
# 9
Lithuania:0.102863 per 1,000 people
# 10
Belarus:0.0983495 per 1,000 people
# 11
Ukraine:0.094006 per 1,000 people
# 12
Papua New Guinea:0.0838593 per 1,000 people
# 13
Kyrgyzstan:0.0802565 per 1,000 people
# 14
Thailand:0.0800798 per 1,000 people
# 15
Moldova:0.0781145 per 1,000 people
# 16
Zimbabwe:0.0749938 per 1,000 people
# 17
Seychelles:0.0739025 per 1,000 people
# 18
Zambia:0.070769 per 1,000 people
# 19
Costa Rica:0.061006 per 1,000 people
# 20
Poland:0.0562789 per 1,000 people
# 21
Georgia:0.0511011 per 1,000 people
# 22
Uruguay:0.045082 per 1,000 people
# 23
Bulgaria:0.0445638 per 1,000 people
# 24
United States:0.042802 per 1,000 people
# 25
Armenia:0.0425746 per 1,000 people
# 26
India:0.0344083 per 1,000 people
# 27
Yemen:0.0336276 per 1,000 people
# 28
Dominica:0.0289733 per 1,000 people
# 29
Azerbaijan:0.0285642 per 1,000 people
# 30
Finland:0.0283362 per 1,000 people
# 31
Slovakia:0.0263303 per 1,000 people
# 32
Romania:0.0250784 per 1,000 people
# 33
Portugal:0.0233769 per 1,000 people
# 34
Malaysia:0.0230034 per 1,000 people
# 35
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:0.0229829 per 1,000 people
# 36
Mauritius:0.021121 per 1,000 people
# 37
Hungary:0.0204857 per 1,000 people
# 38
Korea, South:0.0196336 per 1,000 people
# 39
Slovenia:0.0179015 per 1,000 people
# 40
France:0.0173272 per 1,000 people
# 41
Czech Republic:0.0169905 per 1,000 people
# 42
Iceland:0.0168499 per 1,000 people
# 43
Australia:0.0150324 per 1,000 people
# 44
Canada:0.0149063 per 1,000 people
# 45
Chile:0.014705 per 1,000 people
# 46
United Kingdom:0.0140633 per 1,000 people
# 47
Italy:0.0128393 per 1,000 people
# 48
Spain:0.0122456 per 1,000 people
# 49
Germany:0.0116461 per 1,000 people
# 50
Tunisia:0.0112159 per 1,000 people