Murder rate WORLD Rankings - per 100K

droptop

Surprise ? Japan has almost ZERO ? Maybe a correlation between National debt and murders ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Safest places are Liechtenstein and Monaco. After that it's downhill.

The rows can be sorted. Has murders per 100K of population.

Nice cheerful colors,, flags !!!! neat.

steve45

Its misleading because of the way stats work. If you list murders per 100,000 on a place with a population of 3,000-4,000 it makes the murder rate look huge. I have gone on vacation to Montserrat many times. The island is 8 miles wide and 11 miles long. Population has varied because of volcanic activity but is presently about 3,000-4,000. There was a murder there many years ago ONE MURDER. A husband killed his wife. Because of the murders per 100,000 rule they multiply that one person per 3,000-4,000 people and mae it look like a lawless place.

shilowar

I am sure that countries in the middle east and Africa are keeping very accurate records on homicides.[;)]

lew07

Its no surprize. Japanese respect each other and allow few immigrants.

eastbank

i have been to africa two times for about two months hunting in the bush and saw only police on the boarder check stations,non in the bush and heard stories of tribal killings with knivies and the bodies thrown in the rivers for the croc,s. there is just no way to count the killings in those places. as kenya has closed hunting on public land several trackers had showed up at out camp in botswana having walked there looking for work and told of finding what was left of bodies along the way in the deep bush with their heads cut off,i don,t think those people were counted. eastbank.

SCOUT5

When I was in high school I did a paper on murder rates in large cities around the world. I compared the murder rates and did contrast and comparisons of different things one of which was availability of handguns. While I can't remember every detail of that information I do remember murder rates didn't vary much from city to city around the world.

One thing I do remember is that Tokyo and New York City had almost identical murder rates per population at the time of the information available, which would have been from the 1970's.

chiefr

Quite contrary to what the socialists have been telling us. Socialist want Americans to believe we are number one and guns are the cause.

TangoSierra

While doing research on a paper some 30 years ago on gun control while in college, I found out that in England, a murder is not necessarily a murder. It is only listed as a murder if and when someone is convicted of the crime of murder. So if someone is shot in the back and no one is ever convicted in the death of the person, there was no murder. That may have changed today, but that was the it was some 30 years ago.