The homicide rate in Russia reached *** homicides per 100,000 population in 2023. The indicator has declined steadily since 2002, when it was measured at **** murders per 100,000 inhabitants. Over the years observed, the highest rate was recorded at **** homicides per 100,000 persons in 1994. Homicide in Russia The significant decrease in intentional homicides characterizes the general reduction in crime in Russia since the 1990s. However, murder remains one of the major causes of death in the country. In total, over 7,600 homicides and attempted homicides were recorded in Russia in 2022. Victims of homicide The number of male victims of homicide per 100,000 inhabitants in Russia was approximately ***** times higher than the murder rate of women. A United Nations study showed that while most people who were killed around the globe were men, women were most likely to be murdered by their partners, ex-partners, and family members.

The number of criminal cases of murder and attempted murder recorded in Russia exceeded ***** in 2024. Since 2022, the figures have been going down.

Russia's female homicide rate was slightly below four crimes per 100 thousand population in 2019, marking a decline from 2015. That was more than three times lower than the number of male homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants. The total homicide rate in the country reached 4.7 per 100 thousand people in 2020.

Historical dataset showing Russia murder/homicide rate per 100K population by year from 1990 to 2021.

The average for 2017 based on 35 countries was 1.7 homicides per 100,000 people. The highest value was in Russia: 9.2 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.

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

Context

What effect does decriminalization​ of domestic violence in Russia have on statistics of 'murder with excessive self-defense​' cases? How could these cases be related to the sex of the person being accused?

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Content

The data was parsed from sudact.ru and consists ​​of 4388 law cases mentioning the article 108 of the Russian criminal code — murder with excessive self-defense.

Acknowledgements

This dataset was made with help of Nikita Girin, Elena Vavina, Ekaterina Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Ekaterina Palashina, Anna Starichikova, and Anastasia Kirgizova.

Inspiration

How do the cases differ by sex of the person being accused? For example, murder weapons, court's decisions, sentences, the person being murdered.

Russia RU: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data was reported at 24.148 Ratio in 2009. This records a decrease from the previous number of 27.130 Ratio for 2008. Russia RU: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data is updated yearly, averaging 42.105 Ratio from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2009, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 49.460 Ratio in 2002 and a record low of 24.148 Ratio in 2009. Russia RU: 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 Russian Federation – Table RU.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.; ;

In 2024, around ******* crimes were recorded in Moscow, the Russian capital. The number of crimes registered by the city's authorities decreased by approximately ***** between 2023 and 2024. Among other federal subjects of the country, Moscow had the highest number of crimes registered each year.

Russia RU: Intentional Homicides: Female: per 100,000 Female data was reported at 6.963 Ratio in 2009. This records a decrease from the previous number of 7.463 Ratio for 2008. Russia RU: Intentional Homicides: Female: per 100,000 Female data is updated yearly, averaging 12.028 Ratio from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2009, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 13.853 Ratio in 2001 and a record low of 6.963 Ratio in 2009. Russia RU: Intentional Homicides: Female: per 100,000 Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Russian Federation – Table RU.World Bank: Health Statistics. Intentional homicides, female are estimates of unlawful female 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.; ;

Around *** million crimes were registered by authorities in Russia in 2024, marking a slight decrease compared to the previous year. Over the observed period, the number of offenses recorded in Russia was significantly high at approximately **** million cases in 2006, after which this figure saw a gradual decline.

Data Set from the Russian Federation Federal State Statistics Service - Росстат. Collected, translated into English language and published. Mortality in Russia by cause of death in 2018 (absolute numbers).

Causes of death statistics are obtained from the inscriptions in medical death certificates filled in by a physician referring to disease, accident, homicide, suicide or any other external factor (injuries due to actions envisaged by the law, non-specified injuries, injuries caused by military actions) which led directly to death. Such inscriptions are used as a reason for classifying death causes in civil registration records of deaths.

Some of the presented causes of death: Cause of death, Cholera, Typhoid fever, Paratyphoid, Salmonella infections, Shigellosis, Food poisoning, Intestinal infections, Tuberculosis, Plague, Anthrax, Brucellosis, Leprosy, Tetanus, Diphtheria, Whooping cough Scarlet fever, Meningococcal infection, Sepsis, Erysipelas, Other bacterial infections, Syphilis, Sexually transmitted infections, Typhus, Poliomyelitis, Rabies, Viral encephalitis, Measles, Hepatitis A, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Disease, Other diseases caused by viruses, Malaria, Leishmaniasis, Trypanosomiasis, Schistosomiasis, Malignant, Leukemia, Neoplasms, Diabetes, Diseases of the endocrine system, eating disorders and metabolic disorders, Mental disorders, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Multiple sclerosis, Hypertension, myocardial infarction, Myocardial infarction, Stroke, Urolithiasis, Birth injury, Intrauterine hypoxia and asphyxia in childbirth, Suicides, Murder, Firearm Accident, Other accidents, Causes of death due to alcohol, Drug-related causes of death, All types of transport accidents And many more causes of death.

Data and replication code for the paper "Exploring Gender Bias in Homicide Sentencing: An Empirical Study of Russian Court Decisions Using Text Mining"

As of May 31, 2025, 13,341 civilians were reported to have been killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022. Prior to the war, fighting took place in eastern Ukraine between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and separatist forces supported by the Russian government. Over the course of 2021, 25 conflict-related deaths were recorded in Ukraine. Between April 14 and December 31, 2014, the number of killed civilians exceeded 2,084. These include 298 victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) which was shot down in July 2014. Euromaidan protests and the annexation of Crimea In late 2013, the pro-Russian government of Ukraine backtracked on further integration with the European Union (EU), which led to the Euromaidan period; anti-government protests then turned violent, resulting in almost 100 deaths and thousands of casualties, before the president was ousted. This was followed by the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, as well as its backing separatist paramilitaries in the eastern Oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk; in terms of ethnic composition, these three regions have the highest share of ethnic Russians. Within a month of the annexation, a referendum was held in Crimea and roughly 96 percent of the public voted in favor of joining Russia. The results and validity of the referendum, however, have not received international recognition, and international sanctions sent the Russian economy into recession, but Russia has held de facto control of Crimea since 2014. Ukraine after 2014 Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, was elected in 2014, and oversaw a period of further decommunization, European integration, and anti-corruption policies, as well as numerous ceasefires in the Donbas region (although none lasted more than six weeks). Poroshenko was defeated in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election, with commentators citing various reasons, such as his own scandals, failure to engage with the Russian community, persistent corruption, and the popularity of his opponent. He was succeeded by a political outsider, the former comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who ran on a populist and reformist platform.

The most common cause of death in Russia in 2023 was diseases of the circulatory system, with approximately *** deaths per 100,000 of the country's population. Furthermore, *** deaths per 100,000 population occurred due to neoplasms, which were the second leading cause of mortality in the country. The third-most common cause was diseases of the nervous system, accounting for nearly ** deaths per 100,000 residents. Are there more births or deaths in Russia per year? In recent years, the annual number of deaths was higher than the count of births in Russia. The natural decrease in the population, calculated as the difference between deaths and births, was around one million in 2021. The number of deaths per one thousand population, also known as the mortality rate, increased from **** in 2021 to **** in 2022. How long do Russians live on average? Russian residents born in 2022 were expected to live an average of ** years. The country had one of the largest gender gaps in life expectancy in the OECD, according to the World Bank's World Development Indicators in 2021. Women were expected to live for approximately ** years longer than men.

Context

Do you know that Pakistan is the second most dangerous country in the world to be a politician or to run the elections? Thirty politicians have been killed in fifty-one attacks in last 70 years, and the trend does not seem to change its trajectory. Out of those participating in these political rallies, 734 got killed and 1,752 were injured.

It all started with the assassination of the first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan on October 16, 1951. Hayat Sherpao, General Zia-ul-Haq, Siddiq Khan Kanju, Hakim Muhammad Saeed, Azam Tariq, Imran Farooq, Iqbal Masih, Shahzad Bhatti, Salman Taseer, Bashir Bilour, Abdul Raziq Bugti, Bungal Bugti, Benazir Bhutto and most recently Haroon Bilour and Siraj Raisani were added to the list of assassinated Pakistani politicians. There were a few failed attempts too, for example, Pervez Musharraf survived four while MQM’s Izhar-ul-hassan and Rashid Godil escaped one assassination attempts each. Moreover, I am not counting assassinations carried out by state-actors like for Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Akbar Bugti, Murtaza Bhutto and Shahnawaz Bhutto.
Mexico comes at first place with 133 politicians killed, Russia comes third with 33 and India comes at fourth place with 23 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Partab Singh, Phoolan Devi and Pramod Mahajan are few notable ones. The list includes 1 prime minister, 2 opposition leaders, 3 home ministers and 2 chief ministers.

There is also an old recipe of using violence and killings as an apparatus for election delays, maneuvers and control. The history of elections and the violence go hand in hand – 92 people getting killed in Kenya’s election or 31 in Honduras, 80 candidates in Mexico or 11 in Assam, India, or even 74 in Pakistan’s last elections.

The deadly cycle of violence has already started for this election. Haroon Bilour of Awami National Party (ANP) got killed with 20 others and 65 wounded in a suicide bombing attack in Peshawar. 149 got killed, and 186 left injured in a deadly suicide bombing attack on [BAP’s leader Siraj Raisani][11]. Four people died, and 10 got injured after an explosion near JUI-F’s [Akram Durrani rally in Bannu][12]. And former senator and ANP leader [Daud Achakzai got injured][13] in a firing incident at Qilla Abdullah, Baluchistan. Total tally comes to 174 dead, and 262 injured so far, making it one of the deadliest elections in Pakistan. Mastung blast is the second most lethal terrorist attack in the history of Pakistan with 149 dead, 139 people died in 2007 attack on Benazir Bhutto in Karachi, and 150 killed in the APS attack in Peshawar in 2014.

Content

The dataset contains the following fields:

Serial No, Politicians Name, Day, Date, Day Type, Time, City, Province, Location, Location Type, Latitude, Longitude, Party Name, Number of people killed and Injured and Target Status (Survived or Dead).

Acknowledgements

The dataset should be referenced as “Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, Shams-ul-Arfeen, Sana Rasheed, Assassination of Pakistan’s Politicians (1951-2018), Kaggle, July 16, 2018.

Inspiration

Here is the list of ideas we are working on and like you to help. Please post your kernels and analysis

1. Help us improve the dataset and list the missing incidents with details (if any). You can do so by uploading a new version of the dataset or contacting us

2. See how these incidents have influence voter’s turn out in respective and adjacent constituencies. You can link our Pakistan Elections Dataset for analysis

3. Find out if killing the politician would help opponents win the election?

4. Plot if visually on Pakistan’s map as we have provided long-lat information

5. Compare the numbers with other countries

6. Historically, find out which constituencies are dangerous with a heat map and see if we can predict the location of next violence

7. Rank the parties based on the number of attacks and killings

8. What day or time is the deadliest

9. Any other pattern you can see or visualize

10. Any other dataset suggestion we should combine with this dataset

11. Surprise Me!

Context

Do you know that Pakistan is the second most dangerous country in the world to be a politician or to run the elections? Thirty politicians have been killed in fifty-one attacks in last 70 years, and the trend does not seem to change its trajectory. Out of those participating in these political rallies, 734 got killed and 1,752 were injured.

It all started with the assassination of the first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan on October 16, 1951. Hayat Sherpao, General Zia-ul-Haq, Siddiq Khan Kanju, Hakim Muhammad Saeed, Azam Tariq, Imran Farooq, Iqbal Masih, Shahzad Bhatti, Salman Taseer, Bashir Bilour, Abdul Raziq Bugti, Bungal Bugti, Benazir Bhutto and most recently Haroon Bilour and Siraj Raisani were added to the list of assassinated Pakistani politicians. There were a few failed attempts too, for example, Pervez Musharraf survived four while MQM’s Izhar-ul-hassan and Rashid Godil escaped one assassination attempts each. Moreover, I am not counting assassinations carried out by state-actors like for Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Akbar Bugti, Murtaza Bhutto and Shahnawaz Bhutto.

Mexico comes at first place with 133 politicians killed, Russia comes third with 33 and India comes at fourth place with 23 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Partab Singh, Phoolan Devi and Pramod Mahajan are few notable ones. The list includes 1 prime minister, 2 opposition leaders, 3 home ministers and 2 chief ministers.

There is also an old recipe of using violence and killings as an apparatus for election delays, maneuvers and control. The history of elections and the violence go hand in hand – 92 people getting killed in Kenya’s election or 31 in Honduras, 80 candidates in Mexico or 11 in Assam, India, or even 74 in Pakistan’s last elections.

The deadly cycle of violence has already started for this election. Haroon Bilour of Awami National Party (ANP) got killed with 20 others and 65 wounded in a suicide bombing attack in Peshawar. 149 got killed, and 186 left injured in a deadly suicide bombing attack on BAP’s leader Siraj Raisani. Four people died, and 10 got injured after an explosion near JUI-F’s Akram Durrani rally in Bannu. And former senator and ANP leader Daud Achakzai got injured in a firing incident at Qilla Abdullah, Baluchistan. Total tally comes to 174 dead, and 262 injured so far, making it one of the deadliest elections in Pakistan. Mastung blast is the second most lethal terrorist attack in the history of Pakistan with 149 dead, 139 people died in 2007 attack on Benazir Bhutto in Karachi, and 150 killed in the APS attack in Peshawar in 2014.

Content

The dataset contains the following fields:

Serial No, Politicians Name, Day, Date, Day Type, Time, City, Province, Location, Location Type, Latitude, Longitude, Party Name, Number of people killed and Injured and Target Status (Survived or Dead).

Acknowledgements

The dataset should be referenced as “Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, Shams-ul-Arfeen, Sana Rasheed, Assassination of Pakistan’s Politicians (1951-2018), Kaggle, July 16, 2018.

Inspiration

Here is the list of ideas we are working on and like you to help. Please post your kernels and analysis

1. Help us improve the dataset and list the missing incidents with details (if any). You can do so by uploading a new version of the dataset or contacting us

2. See how these incidents have influence voter’s turn out in respective and adjacent constituencies. You can link our Pakistan Elections Dataset for analysis

3. Find out if killing the politician would help opponents win the election?

4. Plot if visually on Pakistan’s map as we have provided long-lat information

5. Compare the numbers with other countries

6. Historically, find out which constituencies are dangerous with a heat map and see if we can predict the location of next violence

7. Rank the parties based on the number of attacks and killings

8. What day or time is the deadliest

9. Any other pattern you can see or visualize

10. Any other dataset suggestion we should combine with this dataset

11. Surprise Me!

RU: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male在2009达24.148 Ratio，相较于2008的27.130 Ratio有所下降。RU: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male数据按每年更新，2000至2009期间平均值为42.105 Ratio，共10份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于2002，达49.460 Ratio，而历史最低值则出现于2009，为24.148 Ratio。CEIC提供的RU: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male数据处于定期更新的状态，数据来源于World Bank，数据归类于Global Database的俄罗斯联邦 – Table RU.World Bank: Health Statistics。

俄罗斯 RU: Intentional Homicides: Female: per 100,000 Female在2009达6.963 Ratio，相较于2008的7.463 Ratio有所下降。俄罗斯 RU: Intentional Homicides: Female: per 100,000 Female数据按每年更新，2000至2009期间平均值为12.028 Ratio，共10份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于2001，达13.853 Ratio，而历史最低值则出现于2009，为6.963 Ratio。CEIC提供的俄罗斯 RU: Intentional Homicides: Female: per 100,000 Female数据处于定期更新的状态，数据来源于World Bank，数据归类于Global Database的俄罗斯联邦 – Table RU.World Bank: Health Statistics。

The number of family violence crimes in Russia reached **** thousand in 2021, falling by nearly one thousand compared to the previous year. The indicator decreased sharply between 2016 and 2017, when the country's laws decriminalized non-aggravated battery and battery within a family that resulted in no serious harm, unless it took place repeatedly. In total, over **** people became victims of domestic violence crimes in Russia in 2021.