The capital city of Manila had a crime index score of **** in 2023, indicating an increase from the previous year. This is considered a high level of crime. The city's crime index score was lowest in 2016.

As of September 2023, about 30,200 crime incidents were recorded in the Philippines. Across regions, the National Capital Region (NCR) recorded the highest number of crime incidents followed by Region 4-A. Crime incidents include both focus and non-focus crimes.

The volume of crime incidents in the Philippines reached around 342,000 in 2024, indicating a decrease from the previous year. The volume of crime incidents in the country has gradually declined since 2014.

Philippines PH: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data was reported at 11.020 Ratio in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 9.480 Ratio for 2015. Philippines PH: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data is updated yearly, averaging 7.986 Ratio from Dec 1998 (Median) to 2016, with 19 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 11.020 Ratio in 2016 and a record low of 6.413 Ratio in 2008. Philippines PH: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.World Bank: Health Statistics. Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.; ; UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.; Weighted average;

Number, percentage and rate (per 100,000 population) of homicide victims, by racialized identity group (total, by racialized identity group; racialized identity group; South Asian; Chinese; Black; Filipino; Arab; Latin American; Southeast Asian; West Asian; Korean; Japanese; other racialized identity group; multiple racialized identity; racialized identity, but racialized identity group is unknown; rest of the population; unknown racialized identity group), gender (all genders; male; female; gender unknown) and region (Canada; Atlantic region; Quebec; Ontario; Prairies region; British Columbia; territories), 2019 to 2024.

In 2024, about ****** cases of theft were reported in the Philippines. This was the highest volume of focus crimes recorded in the country in that year alone. Focus crimes are considered severe crimes occurring with sufficient frequency and regularity. State of focus crimes The volume of focus crimes that were reported in the Philippines has gradually decreased between 2017 and 2024. Index crimes are those considered serious in nature and occurring with sufficient frequency and regularity that they are considered an index to the crime situation in a given area. This includes murder, homicide, physical injury, rape, robbery, theft and carnapping. Meanwhile, non-index crimes are crimes in violation of special laws. Other focus crimes Aside from theft, the Philippines recorded a high volume of rape cases in 2024. While the number of rape cases has shown a significant decline between 2023 and 2024, the volume of such cases remains alarming. In addition, cases of domestic violence and the prevalence of online sexual assault, especially involving children, are also some of the most alarming crimes in the Philippines today.

The average for 2017 based on 3 countries was 3 homicides per 100,000 people. The highest value was in the Philippines: 8.4 homicides per 100,000 people and the lowest value was in Singapore: 0.2 homicides per 100,000 people. The indicator is available from 1990 to 2017. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

In 2024, theft recorded the highest number of criminal cases against properties in the Philippines. During this year, theft cases amounted to around ******. Meanwhile, there were *** cases of motor vehicle carnapping that year.

Effective public goods provision requires co-production by both citizens and the government. Search costs which impede citizens' abilities to share information constitute a critical and understudied impediment to this co-production. We experimentally evaluate search costs in a rural, conflict-affected province of the Philippines. We randomize the rollout of a police hotline which dramatically reduces the costs of reporting, and compare it against both the status- quo and an alternative intervention which builds trust but does not affect search costs. The hotline increased the likelihood of reporting crimes by 10--19 percentage points. The intervention reduced perceived insurgent activity but had no perceptible impact on ordinary crime. Our findings suggest that addressing search costs substantially impede to service delivery, potentially explaining why policies imported from higher-capacity countries may fail to achieve results in developing contexts.

In 2023, there were about ***** crime incidents per 100,000 individuals across the CALABARZON Region of the Philippines. The average monthly crime rate in the region peaked in 2021.

In 2023, there were around ***** crime incidents per 100,000 individuals in the Philippines. The average monthly crime rate in the country was lowest in 2022.

The Philippines recorded about ***** cases of homicide in 2024, indicating a slight increase from the previous year. The number of homicide cases in the country was highest in 2019.

This dataset contains data and analysis from the article Do State Department Travel Warnings Reflect Real Danger?

Key findings

• On the whole, there is a significant relationship between the number of American deaths abroad per capita and the number of travel warnings a country receives
• Mexico, Mali, and Israel have been targeted by the most travel warnings in recent years, but Americans are more likely to be killed in Thailand, Pakistan, and the Philippines
• Several countries with relatively high rates of American death have not been issued a single travel warning in ~7 years, including Belize, Guyana, and Guatemala
• Several countries with relatively low rates of American death have been issued a relatively high number of travel warnings in ~7 years, including Israel, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia
• Overall, countries subject to travel warnings do not see notable declines in American visitors in the 6 months after a warning is issued

Data sources

• BTSOriginUS_10_09_to_06_16.csv Air Carrier Statistics Database export, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• SDamerican_deaths_abroad_10_09_to_06_16.csv U.S. State Department
• SDwarnings_10_09to06_16.csv U.S. State Department via Internet Archive

Charts / data visualizations

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Rape had the highest reported cases against individuals in the Philippines, amounting to about ***** cases in 2024. This was followed by cases of physical injury.

In 2014, there were around *** thousand crime incidents per 100,000 individuals in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) of the Philippines. Whereas, only ***** crime incidents per 100,000 individuals were reported in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

In 2018, theft accounted for ** percent of the entire criminal cases in the Philippines. The overall number of theft cases amounted to **** thousand in that year.

As of July 2024, the highest number of crimes committed by inmates in the San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm in the Philippines were directly against persons with almost ************** people serving their sentence. Around *** thousand people were in prison due to crimes relative to opium and prohibited drugs.

In 2019, the number of cybercrime incidents within the region five of the Philippines was highest for those who had been sent fraudulent SMS or text scams, amounting to approximately **** thousand victims. Other cybercrimes committed in the region involved hacking, phishing, and cyberbullying.

In 2024, the number of victims of rape in the Philippines reached about *****, reflecting a significant decrease from the peak value in 2022. The volume of rape cases in the country fluctuated since 2014.

The number of robbery cases in the Philippines reached about ***** in 2023. Robbery cases in the country were highest in 2020 during the observed period.