Suicide vs violent deaths 2016
Suicide vs violent deaths 2016

The following list of countries by intentional death rate has been obtained by adding the suicide rate from the World Health Organization and the homicide rate from the UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Study. Intentional deaths include homicide (intentional injury death of another) and suicide (intentional injury death of self).

Based upon various metrics alongside calculations over the course of multiple years, Singapore has the lowest intentional death rate in the world, with Honduras being the highest.[1][2]

Definition

The class of violent deaths documented in this article is intentional killing of others outside of war. Deaths occurring during situations of civil unrest are a grey area.

Intentional homicide is defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its Global Study on Homicide report[3] thus:

Within the broad range of violent deaths, the core element of intentional homicide is the complete liability of the direct perpetrator, which thus excludes killings directly related to war or conflicts, self-inflicted death (suicide), killings due to legal interventions or justifiable killings (such as self-defence), and those deaths caused when the perpetrator was reckless or negligent but did not intend to take a human life (non-intentional homicide).

Though some discrepancies exist in how specific categories of intentional killings are classified, the definitions used by countries to record data are generally close to the UNODC definition, making the homicide rates highly comparable at the international level.[4] UNODC uses the homicide rate as a proxy for overall violence, as this type of crime is one of the most accurately reported and internationally comparable indicators.[5]

Figures from the Global Study on Homicide are based on the UNODC Homicide Statistics dataset, which is derived from the criminal justice or public health systems of a variety of countries and territories.[6] The homicide rates derived from criminal justice data (typically recorded by police authorities) and the public health system data (recorded when the cause of death is established) may diverge substantially for some countries.[7] The two sources usually match in the Americas, Europe and Oceania, but there are large discrepancies for the three African countries reporting both sources.[8] For the 70 countries in which neither source was made available, figures were derived from WHO statistical models.[7]

Deaths resulting from an armed conflict between states are never included in the count.[9] Killings caused by a non-international armed conflict may or may not be included, depending on the intensity of hostilities and whether it is classified as 'civil unrest' or a clash between organized armed groups.[9]

List of countries by intentional death rate

See also: List of countries by intentional homicide rate and List of countries by suicide rate
Intentional deaths per 100,000 people per year
Country Intentional
Death 		Homicide

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Suicide

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Ratio
(H:S)
 Lesotho 131.1 43.6 87.5 0.50
 Greenland[14] (more info) 65.5 5.3 60.2 0.09
 Guyana (more info) 60.9 20.0 40.9 0.49
 South Africa[15] 57.0 33.5 23.5 1.43
 Eswatini 52.1 11.6 40.5 0.29
 U.S. Virgin Islands 49.3 49.3 N/A N/A
 Jamaica 47.0 44.7 2.3 19.43
 El Salvador 43.3 37.2 6.1 6.10
 Central African Republic 43.1 20.1 23.0 6.10
 Nigeria 41.4 34.5 6.9 0.87
 Honduras 38.9 36.3 2.6 13.96
 Trinidad and Tobago 38.9 30.6 8.3 3.69
 Venezuela 38.8 36.7 2.1 17.48
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 37.5 36.5 1.0 36.50
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 36.1 36.1 0.0 N/A
 Botswana 35.4 15.2 20.2 0.75
 Mexico 33.7 28.4 5.3 5.36
 Belize 33.4 25.7 7.7 3.34
 Suriname 31.3 5.4 25.9 0.21
 Zimbabwe 31.1 7.5 23.6 0.32
 Uruguay 30.9 12.1 18.8 0.64
 Kiribati 30.6 N/A 30.6 N/A
 Micronesia 29.0 N/A 29.0 N/A
 Russia[16] (more info) 28.9 7.3 21.6 0.34
 Guatemala 28.7 22.5 6.2 3.63
 Anguilla 28.3 28.3 N/A N/A
 Saint Lucia 28.3 21.4 6.9 3.10
 Saint Martin 27.7 27.7 N/A N/A
 Brazil 27.3 20.9 6.4 3.27
 Mozambique 26.7 3.5 23.2 0.15
 Colombia 26.3 22.6 3.7 6.11
 Puerto Rico 25.9 18.5 7.4 2.50
 Namibia 25.4 11.9 13.5 0.88
 Mongolia 24.0 6.0 18.0 0.33
 Yemen 23.9 6.8 7.1 0.96
 Ukraine (more info) 23.9 6.2 17.7 0.35
 Lithuania[17] (more info) 23.9 3.7 20.2 0.18
 The Bahamas 22.0 18.6 3.4 5.47
 South Korea[18][19][20] (more info) 21.8 0.6 21.2 0.03
 Cape Verde 21.7 6.5 15.2 0.43
 South Sudan 21.6 14.9 6.7 2.22
 Kazakhstan (more info) 21.3 3.2 18.1 0.18
 Vanuatu 21.0 N/A 21.0 N/A
 Dominica 20.8 20.8 N/A N/A
 United States[21] (more info) 20.8 6.3 14.5 0.43
 Montserrat 20.3 20.3 N/A N/A
 Uganda 20.1 9.7 10.4 0.93
 Zambia 19.8 5.4 14.4 0.38
 Montenegro 19.1 2.9 16.2 0.18
 Curaçao 19.0 19.0 N/A N/A
 Belarus[22][23] 18.9 2.4 16.5 0.15
 Costa Rica 18.8 11.2 7.6 1.47
 Latvia 18.7 2.6 16.1 0.16
 Ethiopia 18.3 8.8 9.5 0.93
 Burundi 18.2 6.1 12.1 0.50
 Haiti 17.9 6.7 11.2 0.59
 Angola 17.4 4.8 12.6 0.38
 Solomon Islands 17.4 N/A 17.4 N/A
 Cameroon 17.3 1.4 15.9 0.09
 Eritrea 17.3 N/A 17.3 N/A
 Seychelles 17.1 12.5 4.6 2.72
 Moldova 16.3 4.1 12.2 0.34
 India (more info) 15.9 3.0 12.9 0.23
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 15.8 15.8 N/A N/A
 Burkina Faso 15.7 1.3 14.4 0.09
 Ivory Coast 15.7 N/A 15.7 N/A
 Belgium 15.6 1.7 13.9 0.12
 Ecuador 15.5 7.8 7.7 1.01
 Sri Lanka[24](more info) 15.3 2.4 12.9 0.19
 Estonia 15.3 3.2 12.0 0.27
 Cuba 15.2 5.0 10.2 0.49
 Kenya 15.0 4.0 11.0 0.36
 Finland[25] 15.0 1.6 13.4 0.12
 Hong Kong 14.9 0.3 14.6 0.02
 Iraq 14.8 10.1 4.7 2.15
 Togo 14.8 N/A 14.8 N/A
 Tanzania 14.7 6.5 8.2 0.79
 Somalia 14.7 N/A 14.7 N/A
 Samoa 14.6 N/A 14.6 N/A
 Niger 14.5 4.4 10.1 0.44
 Slovenia[26] 14.5 0.5 14.0 0.04
 Dominican Republic 14.0 8.9 5.1 1.75
 Panama 14.0 11.1 2.9 3.83
 Benin 13.8 1.1 12.7 0.09
 Pakistan[27] 13.7 3.9 9.8 0.40
 Sweden 13.6 1.2 12.4 0.10
 Guinea-Bissau 13.5 1.1 12.4 0.09
 Equatorial Guinea 13.5 N/A 13.5 N/A
 Argentina 13.4 5.3 8.1 0.65
 French Guiana 13.2 13.2 N/A N/A
 Chad 13.2 N/A 13.2 N/A
 Gabon 13.1 N/A 13.1 N/A
 Bolivia 13.0 6.2 6.8 0.91
 Sierra Leone 13.0 1.7 11.3 0.15
 Paraguay 12.9 6.7 6.2 1.08
 New Zealand[28] 12.9 2.6 10.3 0.25
 Afghanistan 12.7 6.7 6.0 1.12
 Iceland[29] 12.7 1.5 11.2 0.13
 Ghana 12.6 2.1 10.5 0.20
 Hungary[30] 12.6 0.8 11.8 0.07
 Japan (more info)[31] 12.5 0.3 12.2 0.02
 Chile 12.4 4.4 8.0 0.55
 Malawi 12.4 1.8 10.6 0.17
 Norway 12.4 0.6 11.8 0.05
 DR Congo 12.4 N/A 12.4 N/A
 Canada[32] (more info) 12.3 2.0 10.3 0.19
 Guinea 12.3 N/A 12.3 N/A
 Australia[33] 12.2 0.9 11.3 0.08
 Rwanda 12.1 2.6 9.5 0.27
   Nepal 12.1 2.3 9.8 0.23
 Croatia[34] 12.0 1.0 11.0 0.09
 Nicaragua 11.9 7.2 4.7 1.53
 Djibouti 11.9 N/A 11.9 N/A
 Mauritius 11.7 2.9 8.8 0.33
 Congo 11.6 N/A 11.6 N/A
 Antigua and Barbuda 11.4 11.1 0.3 37.00
 Grenada 11.4 10.8 0.6 18.00
 Senegal 11.3 0.3 11.0 0.03
 Austria 11.1 0.7 10.4 0.07
 France (more info) 10.9 1.2 9.7 0.12
 Liberia 10.7 3.3 7.4 0.45
 Peru 10.6 7.9 2.7 2.93
 Thailand 10.6 2.6 8.0 0.33
 Kyrgyzstan 10.5 2.2 8.3 0.27
 Slovakia[30] 10.5 1.2 9.3 0.13
 Turkmenistan 10.3 4.2 6.1 0.69
  Switzerland 10.3 0.5 9.8 0.05
 Czech Republic 10.2 0.7 9.5 0.07
 Barbados 10.1 9.8 0.3 32.67
 Poland 10.0 0.7 9.3 0.08
 Sudan 9.9 5.1 4.8 1.06
 Georgia 9.9 2.2 7.7 0.29
 Macedonia[30] 9.9 1.9 8.0 0.24
 Netherlands[30] 9.9 0.6 9.3 0.06
 Singapore 9.9 0.2 9.7 0.02
 Ireland 9.6 0.7 8.9 0.08
 Gambia 9.6 N/A 9.6 N/A
 Bosnia and Herzegovina[35] 9.5 1.2 8.3 0.14
 Fiji 9.5 N/A 9.5 N/A
 Uzbekistan 9.4 1.1 8.3 0.13
 Madagascar 9.2 N/A 9.2 N/A
 Germany[30] 9.1 0.8 8.3 0.10
 Serbia 8.9 1.0 7.9 0.13
 Romania 8.8 1.5 7.3 0.21
 Luxembourg[30] 8.8 0.2 8.6 0.02
 Vietnam 8.7 1.5 7.2 0.21
 East Timor 8.6 4.1 4.5 0.91
 Morocco 8.6 1.3 7.3 0.18
 Denmark[36] 8.6 1.0 7.6 0.13
 Comoros 8.5 N/A 8.5 N/A
 North Macedonia 8.4 1.2 7.2 0.17
 British Virgin Islands 8.3 8.3 N/A N/A
 Cayman Islands 8.2 8.2 N/A N/A
 North Korea 8.2 N/A 8.2 N/A
 Bermuda 8.1 8.1 N/A N/A
 United Kingdom[37] (more info) 8.1 1.2 6.9 0.17
 Portugal[30][38] 8.1 0.9 7.2 0.13
 Tunisia 8.0 4.8 3.2 1.50
 Mali 8.0 N/A 8.0 N/A
 Malaysia 7.9 2.1 5.8 0.36
 Bahrain 7.7 0.5 7.2 0.07
 Iran[39] 7.6 2.5 5.1 0.49
 Bhutan 7.6 2.5 5.1 0.49
 Bulgaria 7.5 1.0 6.5 0.15
 Cambodia 7.3 1.8 5.5 0.33
 China[40] (more info) 7.2 0.5 6.7 0.07
 Philippines 6.9 4.4 2.5 1.76
 Malta 6.9 1.6 5.3 0.30
 Israel[41] 6.7 1.5 5.2 0.29
 Saudi Arabia 6.7 1.3 5.4 0.24
 Bangladesh 6.3 2.4 3.9 0.62
 Azerbaijan 6.3 2.3 4.0 0.58
 Tajikistan 6.2 0.9 5.3 0.17
 Egypt 6.0 2.6 3.4 0.76
 Laos 6.0 N/A 6.0 N/A
 Mayotte 5.9 5.9 N/A N/A
 Spain 5.9 0.6 5.3 0.11
 Guadeloupe 5.8 5.8 N/A N/A
 Albania[42] 5.8 2.1 3.7 0.57
 Turks and Caicos Islands 5.7 5.7 N/A N/A
 United Arab Emirates 5.7 0.5 5.2 0.10
 São Tomé and Príncipe 5.5 3.3 2.2 1.5
 Mauritania 5.5 N/A 5.5 N/A
 Myanmar 5.3 2.3 3.0 0.77
 Qatar 5.1 0.4 4.7 0.09
 Turkey[43] 4.9 2.6 2.3 1.13
 Italy 4.8 0.5 4.3 0.12
 Oman 4.8 0.3 4.5 0.07
 Lebanon 4.7 1.9 2.8 0.68
 Kuwait 4.5 1.8 2.7 0.67
 Armenia 4.5 1.8 2.7 0.67
 Libya 4.5 N/A 4.5 N/A
 Cyprus[30] 4.4 1.2 3.2 0.38
 Greece 4.4 0.8 3.6 0.22
 Tonga 4.4 N/A 4.4 N/A
 Algeria 3.9 1.3 2.6 0.50
 Papua New Guinea 3.6 N/A 3.6 N/A
 Maldives 3.5 0.7 2.8 0.25
 Gibraltar 3.0 3.0 N/A N/A
 Jordan 3.0 1.0 2.0 0.50
 Syria 3.0 0.9 2.1 0.43
 Brunei 3.0 0.5 2.5 0.20
 Indonesia 3.0 0.4 2.6 0.15
 Martinique 2.8 2.8 N/A N/A
 Andorra 2.6 2.6 N/A N/A
 Liechtenstein 2.6 2.6 N/A N/A
 Kosovo 2.4 2.4 N/A N/A
 Kurdistan 2.2 2.2 N/A N/A
 Aruba 1.9 1.9 N/A N/A
 Réunion 1.8 1.8 N/A N/A
 Palestine 1.0 1.0 N/A N/A
 Taiwan 0.8 0.8 N/A N/A
 Macau 0.3 0.3 N/A N/A
 Channel Islands 0.0 0.0 N/A N/A
 Holy See 0.0 0.0 N/A N/A
 Isle of Man 0.0 0.0 N/A N/A
 Monaco 0.0 0.0 N/A N/A
 Saint Helena 0.0 0.0 N/A N/A
 San Marino 0.0 0.0 N/A N/A

See also

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