International Homicide Rates

david dorkin ddorkin at aye.net
Wed Aug 18 13:05:52 PDT 1999


Thanks-but how can some of those entries be? Sweden and the Netherlands have very high rates as high or higher than the BJS US figure -I had found another site with figures that seemed more accurate that also included the US but I cant remember which one it was.

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> david dorkin wrote:
>
> >I was looking around for studies, data and comparisons of international
> >homicide rates; anyone know of good online sources (I did find a good UN
> >organization document but I dont remember where).
>
> UNDP's Human Development Report. The front end for the Acrobat
> version is at <http://www.undp.org/hdro/report.html#stats>; the stat
> supplement is at <http://www.undp.org/hdro/Backmatter2.pdf>. You want
> table 23, "Crime." Incredibly, they don't have a figure for the U.S.!
> According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, it was 9.0/100,000
> people in 1994 (the year shown in the HDR).
>
> Doug



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