Homicide statistics by gender explained

See also: Sex differences in crime. According to the data given by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, worldwide, 79% of homicide victims are men, and in 193 of the 202 listed countries or regions, men were more likely to be killed than women. In two, the ratio was 50:50 (Switzerland and British Virgin Islands), and in the remaining seven – Tonga, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Latvia, and Hong Kong – women were slightly more likely to be victims of homicides compared to males. A 2000 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that men account "for an average of 95 per cent of all persons convicted of homicide in 53 countries"^[1] and 79% of the victims (see the chart below). The highest female homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants was in Honduras and highest male homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants was in Lesotho.

Table

• Rate: The homicide rate is per year per 100,000 inhabitants.
• %: Percent of total number of victims.

Homicide Victims by Gender, by Country. From 2013 report^{[2] [3]}

Location	Total		Male			Female			Year
	class=sticky-table-none	Victims			Victims			Victims
	1,948	6.5	87.0	1,695	5.7	13.0	253	0.8	2010
	157	5.0	83.4	131	4.2	16.6	26	0.8	2009
	280	0.7	84.0	235	0.6	16.0	45	0.1	2012
	2,079	10.0	81.2	1,688	8.1	18.8	391	1.9	2010
	1	7.5	100.0	1	7.5	0.0	0	0.0	2010
	10	11.2	67.9	7	7.6	32.1	3	3.6	2011
	2,237	5.5	83.6	1,870	4.6	16.4	367	0.9	2011
	54	1.8	64.8	35	1.2	35.2	19	0.6	2011
	4	3.9	100.0	4	3.9	0.0	0	0.0	2010
	254	1.1	67.3	171	0.7	32.7	83	0.4	2010
	65	0.7	43.1	28	0.6	56.9	37	0.8	2020
	194	2.1	69.9	136	1.5	30.1	58	0.6	2012
	111	29.8	87.4	97	26.0	12.6	14	3.8	2011
	7	0.5	85.6	6	0.4	14.4	1	0.1	2011
	4,169	2.7	63.2	2,635	1.7	36.8	1,534	1.0	2010
	21	7.4	67.7	14	5.0	32.3	7	2.4	2010
	486	5.1	67.7	329	3.5	32.3	157	1.6	2012
	182	1.6	56.6	103	0.9	43.4	79	0.7	2012
	145	44.7	90.3	131	40.4	9.7	14	4.3	2011
	848	8.4	71.1	603	6.0	28.9	245	2.4	2011
	12	1.7	61.2	7	1.0	38.8	5	0.7	2010
	1,270	12.1	77.3	982	9.4	22.7	288	2.7	2012
	41	1.2	75.6	31	0.9	24.4	10	0.3	2017 ^[4]
	368	18.4	76.0	280	14.0	24.0	88	4.4	2010
	50,108	25.2	89.8	44,997	22.6	10.2	5,111	2.6	2010
	2	8.4	50.0	1	4.2	50.0	1	4.2	2010
	8	2.0	54.1	4	1.1	45.9	4	0.9	2010
	141	1.9	82.3	116	1.6	17.7	25	0.3	2011
	1,311	8.0	67.2	881	5.4	32.8	430	2.6	2012
	8,044	15.2	61.5	4,947	9.3	38.5	3,097	5.9	2010
	790	8.0	70.4	556	5.6	29.6	234	2.4	2010
	964	6.5	75.3	726	4.9	24.7	238	1.6	2010
	1,654	7.6	75.5	1,249	5.7	24.5	405	1.9	2012
	784	2.06	74.8	586	1.54	25.2	197	0.52	2021^[5]
	51	10.3	74.5	38	7.7	25.5	13	2.6	2010
	8	14.7	87.5	7	12.9	12.5	1	1.8	2010
	532	11.8	85.6	455	10.1	14.4	77	1.7	2010
	907	7.3	71.2	646	5.2	28.8	261	2.1	2010
	550	3.1	81.9	450	2.5	18.1	100	0.6	2010
	13,410	1.0	78.1	10,473	0.8	21.9	2,937	0.2	2012
	27	0.4	47.1	13	0.2	52.9	14	0.2	2011
	4	0.7	60.0	2	0.4	40.0	2	0.3	2010
	14,670	30.8	91.6	13,438	28.2	8.4	1,232	2.6	2012
	72	10.0	70.6	51	7.1	29.4	21	2.9	2010
	541	12.5	83.9	454	10.5	16.1	87	2.0	2011
	407	8.5	87.7	357	7.5	12.3	50	1.0	2011
	43	1.04	58.1	25	0.6	41.7	18	0.4	2017 ^[6]
	477	4.2	75.0	358	3.2	25.0	119	1.1	2012
	23	2.0	77.3	18	1.5	22.7	5	0.5	2012
	77	0.7	49.4	38	0.7	50.6	39	0.7	2020
	1,293	5.2	77.1	997	4.0	22.9	296	1.2	2010
	18,586	28.3	80.8	15,017	22.9	19.2	3,569	5.4	2010
	47	0.8	66.0	31	0.5	34.0	16	0.3	2010
	87	10.1	72.3	63	7.3	27.7	24	2.8	2012
	15	21.1	87.5	13	18.5	12.5	2	2.6	2012
	2,268	22.1	91.1	2,066	20.1	8.9	202	2.0	2010
	39	3.6	73.1	29	2.6	26.9	10	1.0	2010
	1,924	12.4	91.8	1,766	11.4	8.2	158	1.0	2010
	2,703	3.4	87.8	2,373	3.0	12.2	330	0.4	2006
	2,594	41.2	89.0	2,309	36.7	11.0	285	4.5	2010
	142	19.3	82.5	117	15.9	17.5	25	3.4	2010
	437	7.1	74.4	325	5.3	25.6	112	1.8	2012
	65	5.0	76.6	50	3.8	23.4	15	1.2	2010
	11,048	12.0	77.2	8,529	9.3	22.8	2,519	2.7	2010
	35	4.0	61.3	21	2.5	38.7	14	1.5	2005
	89	1.6	53.9	48	0.9	46.1	41	0.7	2010
	734	1.1	68.9	506	1.6	31.1	228	0.7	2021
	30	13.3	81.8	25	10.9	18.2	5	2.4	2012
	148	9.1	83.9	124	7.6	16.1	24	1.5	2010
	182	10.2	68.9	125	7.0	31.1	57	3.2	2010
	187	4.3	75.7	142	3.3	24.3	45	1.0	2010
	782	0.9	54.3	425	1.0	45.7	357	0.9	2020
	1,537	6.1	63.8	981	3.9	36.2	556	2.2	2011
	184	1.7	93.4	172	1.6	6.6	12	0.1	2010
	14	13.3	64.3	9	8.6	35.7	5	4.7	2010
	36	7.9	84.2	30	6.7	15.8	6	1.2	2010
	6,025	39.9	88.9	5,356	35.5	11.1	669	4.4	2010
	1,018	8.9	69.4	706	6.2	30.6	312	2.7	2010
	140	8.4	70.6	99	5.9	29.4	41	2.5	2012
	135	17.0	60.0	81	10.2	40.0	54	6.8	2008
	1,033	10.2	78.4	810	8.0	21.6	223	2.2	2012
	7,172	90.4	93.2	6,684	84.3	6.8	488	6.1	2010
	80	0.8	51.2	41	0.9	48.8	39	0.8	2020
	1	0.3	0.0	0	0.0	100.0	1	0.3	2010
	43,355	3.5	59.2	25,666	2.1	40.8	17,689	1.4	2012
	1,456	0.6	80.3	1,169	0.5	19.7	287	0.1	2010
	3,126	4.1	81.9	2,560	3.4	18.1	566	0.7	2010
	2,628	8.0	68.3	1,795	5.5	31.7	833	2.5	2010
	54	1.2	86.7	47	1.0	13.3	7	0.2	2012
	134	1.8	72.8	98	1.3	27.2	36	0.5	2010
	530	0.9	69.9	370	0.6	30.1	160	0.3	2011
	2,691	13.6	76.0	2,045	10.3	24.0	646	3.3	2010
	1,087	39.3	89.5	973	35.2	10.5	114	4.1	2010
	318	0.3	41.2	131	0.2	58.8	187	0.3	2020
	133	2.0	76.6	102	1.5	23.4	31	0.5	2010
	1,263	7.8	82.1	1,037	6.4	17.9	226	1.4	2010
	2,761	6.4	76.6	2,115	4.9	23.4	646	1.5	2010
	8	8.2	69.4	6	5.7	30.6	2	2.5	2012
	12	0.4	83.6	10	0.3	16.4	2	0.1	2010
	494	9.1	68.7	339	6.3	31.3	155	2.8	2012
	392	5.9	79.4	311	4.7	20.6	81	1.2	2011
	97	4.7	49.0	48	2.3	51.0	49	2.4	2010
	95	2.2	79.5	76	1.7	20.5	19	0.5	2012
	764	38.0	74.0	565	28.1	26.0	199	9.9	2010
	135	3.2	70.1	95	2.2	29.9	40	1.0	2009
	103	1.7	76.8	79	1.3	23.2	24	0.4	2010
	202	6.7	73.8	149	4.9	26.2	53	1.8	2010
	4	0.8	100.0	4	0.8	0.0	0	0.0	2011
	30	1.4	86.7	26	1.2	13.3	4	0.2	2010
	2,465	11.1	71.6	1,765	7.9	28.4	700	3.2	2010
	279	1.8	87.5	244	1.6	12.5	35	0.2	2010
	652	2.3	72.6	473	1.7	27.4	179	0.6	2009
	13	3.9	63.3	8	2.5	36.7	5	1.4	2010
	1,119	7.5	65.0	727	4.9	35.0	392	2.6	2012
	12	2.8	75.0	9	2.1	25.0	3	0.7	2011
	2	4.7	81.3	2	3.8	18.7	0	0.9	2012
	11	2.7	72.7	8	2.0	27.3	3	0.7	2010
	191	5.0	68.9	132	3.4	31.1	59	1.6	2010
	34	2.8	76.5	26	2.1	23.5	8	0.7	2010
	26,037	21.5	89.3	23,251	19.2	10.7	2,786	2.3	2012
	5	4.6	74.2	4	3.4	25.8	1	1.2	2008
	229	6.5	72.5	166	4.7	27.5	63	1.8	2011
	266	9.7	77.4	206	7.5	22.6	60	2.2	2010
	17	2.7	82.4	14	2.2	17.6	3	0.5	2012
	1	20.4	100.0	1	20.4	0.0	0	0.0	2010
	704	2.2	87.8	618	1.9	12.2	86	0.3	2010
	3,133	12.4	75.8	2,375	9.4	24.2	758	3.0	2010
	388	17.2	76.3	296	13.1	23.7	92	4.1	2008
	786	2.9	77.3	608	2.2	22.7	178	0.7	2010
	145	0.9	65.0	94	0.6	35.0	51	0.3	2012
	41	0.9	48.8	20	0.4	51.2	21	0.5	2010
	675	11.3	92.6	625	10.5	7.4	50	0.8	2010
	803	4.7	66.1	531	3.1	33.9	272	1.6	2010
	33,817	20.0	68.2	23,063	13.6	31.8	10,754	6.4	2010
	111	2.2	53.2	59	1.2	46.8	52	1.0	2010
	34	1.1	73.3	25	0.8	26.7	9	0.3	2010
	13,846	7.7	76.7	10,620	5.9	23.3	3,226	1.8	2010
	654	17.2	94.6	619	16.3	5.4	35	0.9	2009
	713	10.4	73.7	525	7.7	26.3	188	2.7	2010
	649	9.7	88.8	576	8.6	11.2	73	1.1	2009
	2,865	9.6	78.1	2,238	7.5	21.9	627	2.1	2010
	8,484	8.8	88.0	7,466	7.7	12.0	1,018	1.1	2011
	449	1.2	73.2	329	0.9	26.8	120	0.3	2010
	122	1.2	70.2	86	0.8	29.8	36	0.4	2011
	978	26.5	94.1	920	24.9	5.9	58	1.6	2010
	23	1.1	81.9	19	0.9	18.1	4	0.2	2010
	15	1.8	75.0	11	1.4	25.0	4	0.5	2010
	378	1.7	62.5	236	1.1	37.5	142	0.6	2010
	13,120	9.2	75.5	9,906	6.9	24.5	3,214	2.3	2012
	2,648	23.1	70.9	1,877	16.4	29.1	771	6.7	2012
	18	33.6	90.5	16	30.4	9.5	2	3.2	2011
	39	21.6	79.7	31	17.2	20.3	8	4.4	2008
	28	25.6	88.0	25	22.5	12.0	3	3.1	2010
	7	3.6	81.2	6	2.9	18.8	1	0.7	2010
	6	3.3	74.6	4	2.5	25.4	2	0.8	2010
	234	0.8	66.7	156	0.5	33.3	78	0.3	2011
	379	2.8	74.8	283	2.1	25.2	96	0.7	2010
	111	1.2	64.9	72	0.8	35.1	39	0.4	2010
	9	9.5	79.3	7	7.5	20.7	2	2.0	2010
	113	1.9	76.8	87	1.5	23.2	26	0.4	2012
	11	0.2	62.5	7	0.1	37.5	4	0.1	2010
	75	1.4	68.0	51	1.0	32.0	24	0.4	2011
	14	0.7	57.1	8	0.4	42.9	6	0.3	2010
	24	4.3	74.8	18	3.2	25.2	6	1.1	2010
	819	8.0	73.9	605	5.9	26.1	214	2.1	2012
	16,259	31.0	84.6	13,755	26.2	15.4	2,504	4.8	2009
	302	0.6	54.3	164	0.6	45.7	138	0.5	2020
	1,504	13.9	82.5	1,241	11.5	17.5	263	2.4	1994
	364	0.8	65.7	239	0.5	34.3	125	0.3	2009
	707	3.4	84.8	600	2.9	15.2	107	0.5	2012
	312	7.4	87.6	273	6.5	12.4	39	0.9	2010
	4,159	11.2	85.3	3,548	9.6	14.7	611	1.6	2011
	33	6.1	75.3	25	4.6	24.7	8	1.5	2010
	416	33.8	77.9	324	26.3	22.1	92	7.5	2011
	68	0.7	68.1	46	0.5	31.9	22	0.2	2010
	47	0.5	42.6	20	0.5	57.4	27	0.6	2020
	463	2.2	84.0	389	1.8	16.0	74	0.4	2010
	686	3.0	86.6	594	2.6	13.4	92	0.4	2009
	126	1.6	86.5	109	1.4	13.5	17	0.2	2010
	6,071	12.7	73.0	4,432	9.3	27.0	1,639	3.4	2010
	3,307	5.0	87.7	2,900	4.4	12.3	407	0.6	2007
	684	10.3	71.5	489	7.4	28.5	195	2.9	2010
	1	1.0	0.0	0	0.0	100.0	1	1.0	2010
	379	28.3	91.7	348	26.0	8.3	31	2.3	2010
	235	2.2	77.0	181	1.7	23.0	54	0.5	2010
	1,866	2.6	79.5	1,483	2.1	20.5	383	0.5	2011
	660	12.8	83.8	553	10.7	16.2	107	2.1	2010
	2	6.6	100.0	2	6.6	0.0	0	0.0	2010
	3,753	10.7	86.2	3,235	9.2	13.8	518	1.5	2010
	1,988	4.3	68.6	1,364	2.9	31.4	624	1.4	2009
	235	2.6	86.8	204	2.3	13.2	31	0.3	2012
	653	1.0	70.3	459	0.7	29.7	194	0.3	2012
	21,570	7.8	82	17687	6.4	18	3883	1.4	2020^[7] ^[8]
	56	52.6	87.5	49	46.0	12.5	7	6.6	2010
	267	7.9	79.4	212	6.3	20.6	55	1.6	2010
	1,060	3.7	82.4	873	3.0	17.6	187	0.7	2010
	7	2.9	72.0	5	2.1	28.0	2	0.8	2011
	16,072	53.7	91.9	14,770	49.4	8.1	1,302	4.3	2010
	3,037	3.3	71.5	2,171	2.4	28.5	866	0.9	2011
	1,099	4.8	79.5	874	3.8	20.5	225	1.0	2012
	1,501	10.7	77.8	1,168	8.3	22.2	333	2.4	2011
	1,450	10.6	71.8	1,041	7.6	28.2	409	3.0	2010
style=text-align:left		style=text-align:right	436,621		style=text-align:right	78.7	style=text-align:right	343,582		style=text-align:right	21.3	style=text-align:right	93,033

Notes and References

1. Web site: Global Study on Homicide. 2013. www.unodc.org. United National Office of Drugs and Crime (Vienna). Gibbons. Jonathan.
2. http://www.unodc.org/gsh/en/data.html UNDOC Homicide Statistics 2013
3. Web site: dp-intentional-homicide-victims dataUNODC . 2023-05-05 . dataunodc.un.org.
4. http://bhas.gov.ba/data/Publikacije/Bilteni/2019/NUM_00_2018_TB_0_BS.pdf
5. Web site: 2022 . Homicide in Canada, 2021 . 2023-04-08 . Statistics Canada.
6. Web site: Novi list. 19 November 2018 .
7. Web site: 2023 . Vital Statistics . 2023-04-08 . CDC.
8. Web site: 2021 . Pew Research Center . 2023-04-08 . Pew Research Center.