There were 77 homicide offences recorded in the Republic of Ireland in 2024, compared with 88 in 2023. In the provided time period, homicides in Ireland increased from 2003 onwards, reaching a peak of 153 in 2007 before declining to the relatively low figures seen in the late 2010s.

Ireland: Homicides per 100,000 people: The latest value from is homicides per 100,000 people, unavailable from homicides per 100,000 people in . In comparison, the world average is 0.00 homicides per 100,000 people, based on data from countries. Historically, the average for Ireland from to is homicides per 100,000 people. The minimum value, homicides per 100,000 people, was reached in while the maximum of homicides per 100,000 people was recorded in .

In 2024/25, there were 104 homicide offences recorded in London, the most of any region of the United Kingdom during that time period. North West England, which includes the large cities of Manchester and Liverpool, had 69 homicides and had the second-highest number of homicides. In the same reporting period, the constituent countries of Wales and Northern Ireland reported the fewest homicides, at 23, and 13 respectively. Homicides in the UK falling despite recent uptick Since 2002/03, all three jurisdictions of the UK; England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, have seen their homicide rates fall, with Scotland seeing the steepest decline. The most significant decline in homicides in this period occurred between 2002/03 and 2014/15, which saw the annual number of homicides in England and Wales half from over 1,000 to around 500. This trend was suddenly reversed from 2015/16 onwards, with homicides rising to around 700 per year between 2016/17 and 2019/20. While homicides fell back to 535 in 2024/25, it remains to be seen if this pattern will continue. Knives used in almost half of all murders In 2024/25 a knife or other sharp instruments were used in approximately 46 percent of all murders in England and Wales, making this, by far, the most common method of killing in that reporting year. The overall number of knife homicides reached 262 in 2023/24, compared with 243 in the previous year. Firearm homicides were much rarer than knife homicides, with only 22 taking place in the same reporting year, and homicides caused by shooting only accounting for 3.9 percent of homicides overall.

There were ** homicides recorded in Northern Ireland in 2023/24, compared with 24 in the previous reporting year. In 2002/03, there were ** homicides in Northern Ireland, which was the most in the provided time period.

There were *** homicides for every million people in England and Wales in 2024/25, compared with 9.4 in the previous reporting year. In 2023/24, the homicide rate among UK jurisdictions was highest in Scotland, at **** homicides per million people, and lowest in Northern Ireland, which had a homicide rate of ***. Throughout this provided time period, the homicide rate for Scotland has declined substantially. From 2003/04 to 2013/14, Scotland had the highest homicide rate among UK jurisdictions, with a peak of ** homicides per million people recorded in 2004/05. Uptick in violent crimes since the mid-2010s In 2002/03, there were ***** homicides in England and Wales, but by 2013/14, this had fallen to just ***, with similar declines also evident in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Unlike in the latter two jurisdictions, however, there was a noticeable uptick in homicides in England and Wales from 2016/17 onwards, with *** recorded in 2019/20. Additionally, there has been a surge in violence against the person offences in England and Wales, rising from around ******* in 2012/13 to more than *********** ten years later in 2022/23. It is unclear what exactly is driving this trend, but in an attempt to reverse it, the UK government has started to increase the manpower and funding available to UK police forces after several years of cuts. Struggles of the UK justice system Recent boosts to police funding come after almost a decade of austerity was imposed on most public services. Although some government departments were protected from this, the Ministry of Justice saw its budget decline from *** billion pounds in 2009/10 to just **** billion pounds in 2015/16. Although the Justice Budget has also increased recently, there are several signs that the system as a whole is under pressure. There is a significant backlog of cases at Crown Courts in England and Wales, with serious offences taking an average of almost***************** to pass through the court system. Meanwhile, prisons are struggling with severe capacity issues along with upticks in violence and self-harm.

Ireland IE: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data was reported at 1.892 Ratio in 2013. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.723 Ratio for 2012. Ireland IE: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data is updated yearly, averaging 1.944 Ratio from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2013, with 14 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.044 Ratio in 2007 and a record low of 1.213 Ratio in 2004. Ireland IE: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ireland – Table IE.World Bank: Health Statistics. Intentional homicides, male are estimates of unlawful male 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.; ;

The homicide rate in Northern Ireland in 2023/24 was *** homicides per million population, compared with **** in the 2022/23 reporting year. The homicide rate was highest in this provided time period in 2002/03, when there were **** homicides per million people.

Actual value and historical data chart for Ireland Intentional Homicides Per 100 000 People

Ireland IE: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data was reported at 0.600 Ratio in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.100 Ratio for 2014. Ireland IE: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data is updated yearly, averaging 1.100 Ratio from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2015, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.800 Ratio in 2007 and a record low of 0.100 Ratio in 2000. Ireland IE: 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 Ireland – Table IE.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;

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Ireland: Death rate, per 1000 people: The latest value from 2023 is 6.6 deaths per 1000 people, a decline from 6.7 deaths per 1000 people in 2022. In comparison, the world average is 7.70 deaths per 1000 people, based on data from 196 countries. Historically, the average for Ireland from 1960 to 2023 is 8.8 deaths per 1000 people. The minimum value, 6.1 deaths per 1000 people, was reached in 2010 while the maximum of 12.3 deaths per 1000 people was recorded in 1961.

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Ireland IE: Death Rate: Crude: per 1000 People data was reported at 6.400 Ratio in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 6.500 Ratio for 2015. Ireland IE: Death Rate: Crude: per 1000 People data is updated yearly, averaging 9.000 Ratio from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2016, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12.300 Ratio in 1961 and a record low of 6.100 Ratio in 2010. Ireland IE: Death Rate: Crude: per 1000 People data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ireland – Table IE.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Crude death rate indicates the number of deaths occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration.; ; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Weighted average;

During the Troubles, the 1970s were, by far, the deadliest years of the conflict. Over 2,000 of the more than 3,500 people killed during the Troubles died in the 1970s, with 480 deaths (over 13 percent of the total) coming in 1972 alone. The heavy casualties and violence of the Troubles' early years saw both sides lose some support within their respective communities by the late 1970s, at which point there was something of a de-escalation of attacks, although death tolls were steady at around 100 deaths per year until the IRA ceasefire in 1994. Roughly double the number of deaths have been attributed to republican paramilitaries in comparison to loyalist paramilitaries, although there were some periods in the 1970s and 1990s where both sides had comparable figures. The spike in killings in 1998, the year of the Good Friday Agreement, was due to the Omagh bombing, which resulted in the deaths of 29 people.

Ireland IE: Number of Deaths Ages 15-19 Years data was reported at 51.000 Person in 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 53.000 Person for 2018. Ireland IE: Number of Deaths Ages 15-19 Years data is updated yearly, averaging 149.000 Person from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2019, with 30 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 198.000 Person in 1999 and a record low of 51.000 Person in 2019. Ireland IE: Number of Deaths Ages 15-19 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ireland – Table IE.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Number of deaths of adolescents ages 15-19 years; ; Estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division) at www.childmortality.org.; Sum; Aggregate data for LIC, UMC, LMC, HIC are computed based on the groupings for the World Bank fiscal year in which the data was released by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.

Since 2014, Eurostat and the UNODC have launched a joint annual data collection on crime and criminal justice statistics, using the UN crime trends questionnaire and complementary Eurostat requests

for specific areas of interest to the European Commission. The data and metadata are collected from National Statistical Institutes or other relevant authorities (mainly police and justice departments) in each EU Member State, EFTA country and EU potential members. On the Eurostat website, data are available for 41 jurisdictions since 2008 until 2018 data and for 38 jurisdictions since 2019 data (EU-27, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Turkey, Kosovo(1)), having drop the data for the United Kingdom separately owing to three separate jurisdictions England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland.

This joint data collection and other data collections carried out by Eurostat allows to gather information on:

• police-recorded offences by type of crime
• police-recorded offences by NUTS3 region
• intentional homicide and sexual violence victims and perpetrators (suspected, prosecuted, convicted) by sex
• intentional homicide victims by age, sex, and relationship to the offender
• intentional homicide victims and offences in largest cities
• offenders by justice legal status (suspected, prosecuted, convicted), age, sex, and citizenship
• persons brought before criminal courts by legal status (convicted persons/acquitted)
• personnel by institution (police, courts, and prisons) by sex
• legal cases in first instance courts by type and stage
• prisoners by age, sex, citizenship, and status of the trial process
• prison capacity and occupancy
• people involved in human trafficking by legal status (victims, suspected and convicted traffickers) and victims of human trafficking by all forms of exploitation and citizenship

Where available, data are broken down by sex, age groups (adults/juveniles), country of citizenship (foreigners or nationals) and other relevant variables. National data are available and for intentional homicide offences, city level data (largest cities) are available for some countries. Regional data at NUTS3 level are also available for some police-recorded offences.

Some historical series are available:

• Number of police-recorded crimes by type (intentional homicide, violence, robbery, home burglary, car thefts, and drug crimes) for the period 1993 – 2007
• Number of police-recorded homicide in cities for the period 1993 – 2007
• Number of police officers for the period 1993 – 2007
• Prison population for the period 1993 – 2007

Total number of police-recorded crimes for the period 1950 – 2000

(1) under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244/99

This feature layer represents Sustainable Development Goal indicator 16.1.1 'Number of Victims of Homicide per 100,000 Population' for Ireland. The layer was created using recorded crime statistics 2016 produced by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and NUTS 3 boundary data produced by Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi). Note that the NUTS 3 boundary refers to the former Regional Authorities established under the NUTS Regulation (Regulation (EU) 1059/2003). These boundaries were subsequently revised in 2016 through Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2066 amending annexes to Regulation 1059/2003 (more info).

In 2015 UN countries adopted a set of 17 goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda. Each goal has specific targets to help achieve the goals set out in the agenda by 2030. Governments are committed to establishing national frameworks for the achievement of the 17 Goals and to review progress using accessible quality data. With these goals in mind the CSO and OSi are working together to link geography and statistics to produce indicators that help communicate and monitor Ireland’s performance in relation to achieving the 17 sustainable development goals.The indicator displayed supports the efforts to achieve goal number 16 which aims to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.

Ireland IE: Cause of Death: by Non-Communicable Diseases: % of Total data was reported at 90.600 % in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 90.500 % for 2015. Ireland IE: Cause of Death: by Non-Communicable Diseases: % of Total data is updated yearly, averaging 89.650 % from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2016, with 4 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 90.600 % in 2016 and a record low of 85.600 % in 2000. Ireland IE: Cause of Death: by Non-Communicable Diseases: % of Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ireland – Table IE.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Cause of death refers to the share of all deaths for all ages by underlying causes. Non-communicable diseases include cancer, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, digestive diseases, skin diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, and congenital anomalies.; ; Derived based on the data from WHO's Global Health Estimates.; Weighted average;