In Europe, the Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania had the highest and third highest homicide rates respectively in 2022. Latvia had the highest rate at over four per 100,000 inhabitants. Meanwhile, the lowest homicide rate was found in Liechtenstein, with zero murders The most dangerous country worldwide Saint Kitts and Nevis is the world's most dangerous country to live in in terms of murder rate. The Caribbean country had a homicide rate of 65 per 100,000 inhabitants. Nine of the 10 countries with the highest murder rates worldwide are located in Latin America and the Caribbean. Whereas Celaya in Mexico was listed as the city with the highest murder rate worldwide, Colima in Mexico was the city with the highest homicide rate in Latin America, so the numbers vary from source to source. Nevertheless, several Mexican cities rank among the deadliest in the world when it comes to intentional homicides. Violent conflicts worldwide Notably, these figures do not include deaths that resulted from war or a violent conflict. While there is a persistent number of conflicts worldwide, resulting casualties are not considered murders. Partially due to this reason, homicide rates in Latin America are higher than those in countries such as Ukraine or the DR Congo. A different definition of murder in these circumstances could change the rate significantly.

The average for 2017 based on 24 countries was 1.4 homicides per 100,000 people. The highest value was in Lithuania: 4.5 homicides per 100,000 people and the lowest value was in Luxembourg: 0.3 homicides per 100,000 people. The indicator is available from 1990 to 2017. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

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.

The statistic above provides information about the homicide rate for the most populous city in each European country in 2012. In 2012, the homicide rate in Berlin stood at 1 per 100,000 population.

In Europe in 2019, England and Wales had the highest reported rate of serious assaults per 100,000 inhabitants, with almost 930 reported incidents. Belgium had the second highest rate with close to 560. Romania had the lowest rate of reported serious assaults, with only 1.46 per 100,000 inhabitant, followed by Lithuania and Albania. Despite this low rate of assault, Lithuania, Albania and Romania had some of the highest homicide rates in Europe, suggesting that there is a discrepancy in how often assaults are reported in these countries, or the methodology behind data collection.

The Balkan countries Montenegro and Albania have the highest murder rates with cases involving firearms in Europe. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Sweden came third. The Scandinavian country has seen increasing levels of gang-related violence in recent years.

In 2021, Liechtenstein had the highest female homicide rate in Europe, with an estimated 5.08 women per 100,000 falling victims to intentional homicide. However, this number is skewed due to Liechtenstein's very small population; in real terms, this equates to one female homicide in Liechtenstein in 2021. For more populous countries, the next countries on the list are six of Eastern Europe's seven former-Soviet states, with Latvia and Russia having the highest rates of intentional female homicide in Europe (Estonia is the outlier).

Notes for publication:

The table presented is based on the data from the Police Crime Statistics (PKS) of the State of Schleswig-Holstein. These are the results of the police investigation before handing them over to the public prosecutor's office or the court. The PKS contains the illegal offences that have become known to the police, including the attempts threatened with punishment, the number of suspects identified and a number of other information on cases, victims or suspects. The data refer to a closed reporting year and are published annually for the previous calendar year.

Table-specific information:

Table 62 (crimes and nationality of non-German suspects)

This dataset contains figures on non-German suspects by nationality recorded in Schleswig-Holstein in the corresponding reporting year.

Structure of the table

The following columns are included:

• Key number of the offence - Crime key number (key of the respective offences or sum key)
• Offence - plain text of the offence or the sum key
• Non-German suspects - Sum of non-German suspects
• Nationality - Number of nationalities
• The preceding number in brackets (1) – (107) denotes the column numbering.

Character set: Western European (Windows – 1252/WinLatin 1)

According to a survey on police stop rates in Europe in 2019, approximately 1 in 5 Muslims surveyed advised that the police had stopped them in the last 12 months. By comparison, 16 percent of respondents with no religion said that they had been stopped by the police, whereas only 13 percent of Christians said they had stopped them.

The average for 2016 based on 34 countries was 1070 thefts per 100,000 people. The highest value was in Denmark: 3949 thefts per 100,000 people and the lowest value was in Cyprus: 62 thefts per 100,000 people. The indicator is available from 2003 to 2016. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

In this dataset you can consult the crime rates per district in Ghent for the year 2021 It is always possible that this data will be updated later with new data. Data demarcation: Initial findings ifv a fact-recording for crimes, violations of the GAS-codex, traffic accidents and traffic violations; Initial findings made by Police Zone Ghent whose foster place can be traced back to one of the 25 neighborhoods. Determinations made by another police zone or the federal police, even if they have been committed in Ghent, are not included; The teleenity is the committed fact, not the PV. After all, more facts can be recorded within one PV that must be counted separately; Both the attempts and the completed facts are recorded.Source data: Integrated System for the Local Police (I.S.L.P.) More details about the metadata can be found in the attachment that is available with this dataset!

The statistic above provides information about the homicide rate in Europe, sorted by gender and age group. In 2012, the homicide rate of male 30 to 44 year-olds stood at 6.4 per 100,000 population.

The dataset contains data on 25 EU countries over the period 2000-2013. The aim is to examine the relationship between crime rates and fiscal policy accounting for the effect of shadow economy. All data in this study were derived from public domain resources.

This table contains the number of persons died as a result of murder or manslaughter, where the crime scene is located in the Netherlands. The victims can be residents or non-residents of the Netherlands. The data can be split by location of the crime, method, age and sex. The criterion is the date of death, the date of the criminal act can be in the previous year. Since 2014 the figures cannot be split by both sex and age for the location and method variables, due to small numbers and the distribution this split could lead to disclosure of individual information. Since 2013 Statistics Netherlands is using Iris for automatic coding for causes of death. This improved the international comparison of the data. The change in coding did cause a considerable shift in the statistics. Since 2013 the (yearly) ICD-10 updates are applied. However for murder and manslaughter no changes in coding have taken place. The ICD-10 codes that belong to murder and manslaughter are X85-Y09. Data available from 1996 to 2018 Status of the figures: All figures are final. Changes as of July 29th 2020: This table has been stopped and has been replaced by the table 'Deaths; murder and manslaughter, crime scene in The Netherlands' (see paragraph 3). When will new figures be published? Not applicable anymore.

The rate of Actual Bodily Harm (assault with injury) crimes per 1,000 population.

Crime victims by background characteristics: sex, age, highest level of education, number of addresses per km2 of the place of residence 1997 - 2004 Changed on November 07 2005. Frequency: Discontinued.

Crime, violence or vandalism in the area by level of disability (activity limitation), sex and age

Information on non-German suspects (breakdown by offence, total number of suspects, by sex, by age) per federal state

The indicator measures the standardised death rate of homicide and injuries inflicted by another person with the intent to injure or kill by any means, including ‘late effects’ from assault (International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes X85 to Y09 and Y87.1). It does not include deaths due to legal interventions or war (ICD codes Y35 and Y36). The rate is calculated by dividing the number of people dying due to homicide or assault by the total population. Data on causes of death (COD) refer to the underlying cause which - according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) - is "the disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death, or the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury". COD data are derived from death certificates. The medical certification of death is an obligation in all Member States. The data are presented as standardised death rates, meaning they are adjusted to a standard age distribution in order to measure death rates independently of different age structures of populations. This approach improves comparability over time and between countries. The standardised death rates used here are calculated on the basis of the standard European population referring to the residents of the countries.

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.