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You are here: Home / Google+ Posts / An Interactive Map Of Homicide Rates Around The World

An Interactive Map Of Homicide Rates Around The World

May 11, 2015 by Paul Spoerry 9 Comments

 

The interactive Homicide Monitor allows you to click on a country and see its murder count in a specific recent year, and the rate the number represents per 100,000 people. For some countries, you can also see the weapon most commonly used.

1 in 5 people were either Brazilian, Columbian, or Venezuelan. In fact Latin America and the Caribbean seem downright scary overall. I suppose it comes as no surprise that in the developed Western counties the U.S.A. stands out with a high number (it's almost as if we just have things sitting around waiting to kill people)… Bosnia and Libya have lower rates?!

src: http://homicide.igarape.org.br/

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I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

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Comments

  1. Paul Wooding says

    May 11, 2015 at 8:16 am

    Greenland and Antarctica look quite dangerous

  2. Paul Spoerry says

    May 11, 2015 at 8:55 am

    I was a little surprised when I looked at Greenland too.

  3. duncan yourmate says

    May 11, 2015 at 12:13 pm

    my friend 'them little things have bullets',,,,an please no nra , half quotes of bill of rights , you think bosnia an Libya report , anything , ? mate ,, they don't

  4. Paul Spoerry says

    May 11, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    That was such a fragmented statement I have no idea what you're attempting to express.

  5. West Kagle says

    May 11, 2015 at 2:35 pm

    On a chart like this, countries with very low populations have it tough. If the population is extreemly low and you get a few Homicides, that puts the curve in the crapper. That's why Greenland is red.

  6. Thomas Wrobel says

    May 12, 2015 at 5:18 am

    Also, is that counting the "official" homicides when cops kill someone or not ? 🙁
    +West Kagle Well, yes, be better averaged over a few years for lower populations.

  7. Paul Spoerry says

    May 12, 2015 at 9:27 am

    uh…. if it's rate/100,000 then how does that make it worse? If you only have 100,000 and have 1 homicide then you have homicide rate of 1 per 100,000. If you have 200,000 and have 1 homicide then you have a homicide rate of 0.5 per 100,000. The rate / x changes to reflect population; that doesn't handicap Greenland because of it's size. I mean Iceland only has 333,333 people (vs 56,701 in Greenland) but their homicide rate is only 0.3. They have more people but less homicide.

  8. Thomas Wrobel says

    May 12, 2015 at 11:03 am

    +Paul Spoerry I assumed his point was the stats for a specific year can be throwen off wildly by a small change.

  9. Paul Spoerry says

    May 12, 2015 at 11:20 am

    Oh well yeah that would make sense +Thomas Wrobel. I think the dates shown are just the most recent info they have but that the data is aggregated over several years so I don't think one year would get it thrown off wildly… but I could be mistaken, I'll have to take a look over what they say about the data to be sure.

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