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homicide Homicide occurs when a person kills another person. A homicide requires only a volitional act or omission that causes the death of another, and thus a homicide may result from accidental, reckless, or negligent acts even if there is no inten ...
rates in the world. The homicide rate of a city is an imprecise tool for comparison, as the population within city borders may not best represent an urban or metropolitan area with varying rates in different areas.


Rankings (2019)

The following 50 cities have the highest
homicide Homicide occurs when a person kills another person. A homicide requires only a volitional act or omission that causes the death of another, and thus a homicide may result from accidental, reckless, or negligent acts even if there is no inten ...
rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people, and all relevant data available online. This list reproduces the lists in the two cited sources, and does not incorporate data from other sources.


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Other statistics


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Firearm death rates in the United States by state This article is a list of U.S. states with firearm death rates per 100,000 population. National statistics In 2020, over 45,000 people in the United States (13.6 per 100,000 people) died by firearms. More than half of these people died by suic ...
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Homicide in world cities This article contains A-Z tables of the incidence of intentional homicide in multi-municipal metropolitan areas and standalone municipalities with a predominantly urbanized population. It does ''not'' take into consideration capricious political di ...
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List of Brazilian states by murder rate This is a list of Brazilian federative units by homicide rate, according to data from the Atlas da Violência (years 1996 to 2021, prepared by the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea) and the Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública (FB ...
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List of countries by firearm-related death rate This is a historical list of countries by firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population in the listed year. Homicide figures may include justifiable homicides along with criminal homicides, depending upon jurisdiction and reporting standard ...
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List of countries by intentional death rate The following list of countries by intentional death rate has been obtained by adding the suicide rate from the World Health Organization and homicide rate from the UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Study. Intentional deaths ...
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List of countries by intentional homicide rate by decade In computing, a user agent is any software, acting on behalf of a user, which "retrieves, renders and facilitates end-user interaction with Web content". A user agent is therefore a special kind of software agent. Some prominent examples of use ...
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List of countries by intentional homicide rate The list of countries by UNODC homicide rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year. A mortality rate of 30 (out of 100,000) in a population of 100,000 would mean 30 deaths per year in that entire population, or ...
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List of countries by life expectancy Methodology The life expectancy is shown separately for males and for females, as well as a combined figure. Several non- sovereign entities and territories are also included in this list. The figures reflect the quality of healthcare in th ...
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List of countries by suicide rate The following are lists of countries by suicide rate as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources. About one person in 5,000–15,000 dies by suicide every year, with an estimated global rate of 10.5 per 100,000 popula ...
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List of federal subjects of Russia by murder rate List of the federal subjects of Russia by homicide rate (homicides per 100,000) List of the federal subjects of Russia by total murder count See also * Crime in Russia * List of U.S. states by homicide rate * List of Brazilian states by ...
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List of Mexican states by homicides This is a list of Mexican states by their respective homicide data. Methodology The National Institute of Statistic and Geography released information of homicides for the 32 federal states of Mexico. In the year 2011 there were 27,199 homic ...
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List of U.S. states by homicide rate This is a list of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate as of 2020. It is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year; a homicide rate of 4 in a population of 100,000 would mean 4 murders a year, or ...
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List of United States cities by crime rate (2014) The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports statistics from 2019 for the top 100 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system. The p ...
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Number of guns per capita by country This is a list of countries by estimated number of privately owned guns per 100 persons. The ''Small Arms Survey 2017''Right to keep and bear arms in the United States The right to keep and bear arms in the United States is a fundamental right protected by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, and by the constitutions of most U.S. states. The Second Amendment decla ...
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United States cities by crime rate (100,000–250,000) The following table is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports statistics. The population numbers are based on U.S. Census estimates for the year end. The number of murders includes nonnegligent manslaughter. This list is ...
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United States cities by crime rate (60,000-100,000) The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports statistics from 2019 for the top 100 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system. The p ...


Sources

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Cities A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
Cities A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
Murder rate The list of countries by UNODC homicide rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year. A mortality rate of 30 (out of 100,000) in a population of 100,000 would mean 30 deaths per year in that entire population, or ...
Murder rate, Cities