The number of homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in Norway has been relatively stable since 2010, with the exception of 2011. It was at its lowest in 2014, when 0.46 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants were registered, and at its highest in 2011 following the terrorist attack in Oslo and Utøya. In 2021, the homicide rate stood at 0.55. That year, 32 homicide victims were reported in Norway.

In the period between 2011 and 2024, the number of homicide victims in Norway peaked in 2011, when *** people were murdered in the country. This includes the fatalities of the terrorist attack on July 22 that year. In the years thereafter, the number of homicide victims was usually between ** and **, but reached ** in 2024. Moreover, the balance between male and female victims was pretty even through the period considered.

The number of reported robberies and thefts decreased in Norway over the past years. In 2023, nearly 120,000 cases of robberies, burglaries and thefts were reported to the Norwegian authorities. By comparison, more than 170,000 reports were filed in 2013.

There were public mass shootings in the United States in every year between 1998 and 2019, resulting in a total of almost 1,900 casualties. When compared with the number of victims of mass shootings in all other developed nations (based on UN specifications), the United States' figure is often higher than all of these countries combined. There were notable exceptions, such as the attacks in Paris on the evening of November 13. 2015, which resulted in 130 deaths and 416 injuries (the same year the Charlie Hebdo shooting killed 12 people and injured 11 more), the 2011 attacks in Oslo and Utøya, Norway and Liège, Belgium which had a combined casualty count of 240 due to gunfire. In the United States, the deadliest mass shooting in this time was the Las Vegas Strip massacre in 2017.