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Countries with the Highest Murder Rate

Can you name the countries that have the most intentional homicides per 100,000 people according to the UN?
Source: Wikipedia
For the year 2022 or most recent year
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rate
country
53.3
Jamaica
41.9
South Africa
40.4
St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
40.0
Trinidad and Tobago
37.7
Lesotho
36.7
St. Lucia
35.1
Honduras
rate
country
31.2
Bahamas
29.4
St. Kitts and Nevis
27.9
Belize
27.0
Ecuador
26.1
Mexico
25.4
Colombia
21.7
Nigeria
rate
country
21.3
Brazil
20.0
Guatemala
19.3
Venezuela
18.0
Haiti
16.3
Guyana
15.4
Iraq
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100 Recent Comments
Souhitya345
+5
Level 73
Jul 21, 2017
Why so many murders in central America ? :O
scrumpyone
+16
Level 45
Jul 21, 2017
Drugs?
Tramp
+7
Level 76
Jul 21, 2017
Unfortunately, you're probably right in general. Latin American gangs are responsible for soooo many murders.
DeusCaritasEst
+5
Level 55
Jul 21, 2017
There's a pretty good correlation between high temperatures and murder rates.
Malbaby
+7
Level 70
Jul 22, 2017
I think it is more to do with lack of Law control, corruption, and failure of the authorities to punish the 'Top Cats' of drug production and distribution, poverty and unemployment, access to firearms, illiteracy and the Macho violence against women ...... just for starters.
vindem
+13
Level 66
Aug 29, 2017
High temperatures? What about Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam... India, Australia?
TWM03
+9
Level 70
Sep 22, 2018
There may be a high correlation. This does not mean that the temperatures cause the murders.
CardinalSin
+2
Level 78
Nov 18, 2018
A very wise observation, TWM03. There may, of course, be a third factor that is correlated with both. Suggestions, please....
TWM03
+4
Level 70
Nov 23, 2018
Probably how rich the country is, I'm guessing. Hotter countries tend not to be in Europe, which is one of the richest parts of the world. As for why this would be true for other areas (i.e. the US and Canada are richer than Latin America, one of the most prosperous South American countries is Uruguay, etc.) I'm not sure. Maybe it's to do with how many people were in the places before colonisation versus how many colonists chose to stay there, being used to colder temperatures.
JWatson24
+5
Level 71
Aug 31, 2021
It's true that there's a correlation, but temperature alone doesn't explain it. Like vindem says, many South and Southeast Asian countries are very hot and humid and have much lower murder rates. Sure, they may be underreporting, but it's likely that these countries are underreporting as well.

Personally, I learned in a Psych class that income inequality is the biggest determinant of crime. As tshalla says above, murder rate rankings and GINI rankings are pretty similar.

LadyQuizling
+1
Level 56
Jul 21, 2017
Hot blood?
rg1227
+2
Level 69
Jul 21, 2017
Go here for the opposite:

http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/229194/countries-with-the-lowest-homicide-rate

Malbaby
+14
Level 70
Jul 22, 2017
I thought for a moment it was going to be a ..... 'Numbers of Dead brought back to Life' quiz
roleybob
+9
Level 75
Sep 18, 2019
Well, there'd be a big spike in Israel, circa 30 AD (according to certain sources), then pretty much it would flat line (!) until modern medicine and science started working their magic
joez
+2
Level 74
Jul 21, 2017
For highest murder rates outside of Africa or the Americas, try http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/170770/highest-murder-rate-countries-with-exceptions
rabble
+1
Level 68
Jul 14, 2024
That list has a 15.2, 12.8, 10.4 ... then the rest vary 4.3-10. This quiz is roughly 20-35., peaking in the 40s/50s. Nuts
stubart409
+1
Level 67
Jul 21, 2017
Try taking my quiz on cities with the highest murder rate:

http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/156455/cities-with-the-highest-homicide-rates.

Drinker
+3
Level 66
Jul 21, 2017
well, these times i'm so "proud" of being a brazilian
InfiniteInsanity999
+1
Level 42
Jul 24, 2017
All these Caribbean countries and I forget Africa oops c:
ZiggyZioBob
+6
Level 40
Aug 2, 2017
I see...countries with high levels of segregation
POOCH
+11
Level 72
May 8, 2018
My experience with South and Central Americans has led me to believe that segregation and prejudice in those countries is more of an issue between the wealthy and the poor (it seems that most of them only have small middle class communities) than it is between races because most people are of mixed race. There are very few "pure" blood lines in any ethnicity. That has just been my experience. I don't claim to be any kind of authority on the subject. The poor are forced to take what they need in a system that is stacked against them and often it means resorting to violent measures.
TheForsakenFurby
+2
Level 74
Jun 14, 2024
I'm by no means an expert either, but from what I understand that's a generalization we US-Americans tend to take as gospel (at least I took it as gospel).

Compared to the long history of enforced racial segregation in the US, countries like Mexico and Brazil are much, much more mixed. But they are still quite diverse. Not everyone is mestizo or pardo, and mestizo and pardo heritage can present a broad spectrum of physical characteristics. Mexico at least has a significant indigenous population (I don't mean mestizo; I mean large communities of people speaking Zapotec, Mayan languages, etc.).

As far as I know, colorism is still a big problem in many Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Salz
+1
Level 59
Feb 19, 2018
Only 4 outside the Americas
FinlandForever19
+2
Level 82
Aug 7, 2018
The Caribbean has a surprisingly high murder rate. I knew Jamaica was really bad but I was surprised to see places like the Bahamas and St Kitts and Nevis.
NotaRealPerson
+1
Level 54
Jun 29, 2024
A lot of pirates there, so…
shuriken15
+1
Level 39
Feb 15, 2019
So basically northern South America, southern North America (the countries with drug routes going through them), plus southern Africa. Gotcha.
ElijahCaine
+1
Level 50
Sep 11, 2019
These countries - the Latin American ones at least - also have some of the world's lowest suicide rates. It's an interesting contradiction, that less depressed people are more homicidal
MindWax
+2
Level 84
Jun 14, 2024
They just don't get the chance to commit suicide before being murdered
meimei
+2
Level 74
Apr 4, 2019
Curse of the Caribbean...
yorksguy1865
+5
Level 35
Apr 29, 2019
Personally not a big fan of murder rates as a statistic for judging a country, especially if you have a country with a really small population. You could have one single murder and have the highest murder rate in the world for that year despite it being the first killing in that place for 10 years or something. These kind of figures also make some countries look incredibly dangerous but they don't take into account that a lot of the time it is gang related murders which tourists wouldn't necessarily get caught up in.
WhatIsLove
+4
Level 60
Aug 31, 2021
They averaged the murder rates for 10 years so the sample size is pretty decent. The bigger issue is that only reported homicides are counted, so the actual most dangerous countries are all absent from this list.
Neodymium
+1
Level 59
Jun 29, 2024
Vatican was 303/100000 in 1998 apparently
PauloMX
+2
Level 65
Jul 25, 2019
15/20 From Latinamerica & the caribbean! I thought Jamaican people were very chill! I don't understand this :S
Jozi
+6
Level 69
Sep 6, 2019
We are. Unfortunately, gang violence is very high in the ghetto areas, and outside of the ghetto areas the murders we hear about the most are relationship related.
KanzazKyote
+2
Level 88
Jul 25, 2019
The Lesser Antilles nations and Tuvalu are very misleading. They are considerably safe, with very low murder counts, but the sheer lack of people in those countries drastically inflates those nations' homicide rates to unbelievable numbers.
joeythelemur
+13
Level 83
Aug 27, 2019
But that's exactly the point of the "rate per 100,000 inhabitants". If you have a small population, 20 or 40 murders can be a lot. You'd only really have a valid argument for Tuvalu, which lands on this list with only 2 murders, which of course could be done in a single event by a single person and therefore skew the impression of relative safety. But St Lucia, for example, has only 165,000 people; 53 homicides is a LOT for that small of a place.
IsleAuHaulte
+6
Level 89
Jul 27, 2019
If you kill each other all the time, name your country after a saint.
CaptainUnderpant
+3
Level 79
Jun 15, 2024
The twin saints, St. Stabby and St. Bang Bang
rabble
+1
Level 68
Jun 29, 2024
Don't forget St. Louis
samiamco
+7
Level 69
Aug 8, 2019
One of the most interesting things I read that hadn’t even occurred to me was how much the state of trauma care in a country can skew results. For instance, you can get shot clean through the head in the US for instance and wind up making a full recovery because of the quality and availability of emergency medical care, but a schoolyard squabble in, say, Lesotho, might cause an infected puncture wound from a pencil that results in death. The caveats specifically say that the technical rate of homicides may not be an accurate indicator of a country’s general state of societal violence, although that’s usually what this data is used for.
CaptainUnderpant
+2
Level 79
Jun 15, 2024
Those seem like rather fringe examples, but I think it'd be interesting to see what kinds of weapons are used most frequently. My guess is that a lot of these are firearm deaths related to drug/human trafficking and that healthcare might matter less when you're dealing with gunshot wounds than, say, a pencil wound.
gzx5
+1
Level 72
Sep 6, 2019
Why Namibia?
WelshWizard
+1
Level 85
Sep 6, 2019
Close to South Africa - cross-border organised crime. Also, hardly any people so high per-capita rate.
Quizmaster
+7
Level ∞
Sep 6, 2019
Poor enough to have a violence problem. Rich enough to accurately record murders that take place.
gzx5
+3
Level 72
Sep 8, 2019
Interesting. Of all the countries on this list, Namibia surprised me three most. I thought it was a pretty safe country but I guess not. I know next door Botswana is safer though.
Liam315
+1
Level 71
Sep 2, 2021
Namibia is very sparsely populated (only around 1M population) and manages its wildlife relatively well. This means that it has one of the largest rhino populations in Africa, which attracts international mafias that engage in poaching there. Therefore you get murders in exactly the same ways you'd expect to get around drug cartels in the Americas.

This obviously isn't the only reason, but it definitely contributes to the statistics.

Joe1
+3
Level 59
Sep 6, 2019
The likes of Iraq/ Syria/ Somalia would dwarf the Central American countries in murder statistics - they're just too poverty ridden to have a system that records all the crimes.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 81
Sep 29, 2019
They actually would not. Kind of puts it in to perspective just how bad things are in Central America when it's safer being in an anarchistic failed state or active war zone.
FinlandForever19
+1
Level 82
Nov 9, 2019
I'm pretty sure war deaths are not counted in the murder rate.
quizzicalguy
+3
Level 66
Sep 6, 2019
Interesting that about 60% of the people on this list were murdered in Brazil.
RedLightning
+2
Level 47
Sep 8, 2019
I missed Mexico, the most guessed one XD
bozoclown
+3
Level 55
Sep 9, 2019
Once the people from these places overrun the West, you will see the same nonsense wreck our societies, unfortunately, despite all the PC open borders idiocy.
ruftytufty
+18
Level 79
Aug 27, 2021
what an appropriate user name
rabble
+2
Level 68
Feb 28, 2023
Unfortunately it seems to be true. I think people with dark-skin are overrepresented in homicide offenders in all top 5 metropolitan areas of the USA. Maybe even all of the top 20 cities by homicide rate.

And "hispanics" get lumped into the "white" category in FBI data, which seems suspicious.

No one likes violent crime, regardless of their skin color.

Facts are facts.

Ainmclarach
+4
Level 61
Jun 29, 2024
Uh, buddy, y’know who’s actually more likely to commit violent crimes? Poor people. Y’know what people with darker skin tend to be? Poor. Correlation does not equal causation. People with darker skin commit more crimes because of their circumstances, not their skin colour.
rabble
+2
Level 68
Jul 3, 2024
People with dark color skin know right from wrong, and that murder is wrong. People who are poor know right from wrong, and that murder is wrong.

Trying to wish statistics away won't change the unfortunate reality, that in 2024, murder rates in the USA would drop by about 50% if black murderers were omitted.

It transcends wealth- "Neighborhood Racial Composition and Gun Homicides"

The occlusion of that is a tragedy; how many lives will be destroyed because some people would rather feel good about themselves, than address the crisis. Ignorance does not solve problems. Informing and changing behavior does.

FinlandForever19
+1
Level 82
Nov 9, 2019
2 deaths in Tuvalu? I thought people there just slept in hammocks all day.
Baxtergrad
+10
Level 51
Jan 8, 2021
Murderers pushed them off the hammocks
Nikkirabie
+2
Level 66
Apr 25, 2020
Writing this from Namibia:)
fjakob
+2
Level 62
Sep 9, 2020
Wow Tuvalu is really dangerous 2 murders is too much to handle for my pea sized brain
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 69
Aug 27, 2021
Just missed Namibia
gzx5
+3
Level 72
Aug 31, 2021
So basically these countries are all either majority Black or Hispanic, the former of which being the majority. And before I have some social justice warriors respond here it's important to remember the difference between hate speech and fact and for one to make sure their emotions don't hijack their sense of logic.
stusum
+14
Level 64
Sep 3, 2021
Kind of sounds like you're making an emotional argument.

Yes it is a fact that these countries are made up of certain demographics.

Your comment seems to imply that black = murderer. But perhaps a more relevant metric might be poor = murderer.

TheForsakenFurby
+7
Level 74
Jun 14, 2024
For someone who supposedly only listens to logic, you jumped to gleeful axe-grinding rather quickly.

If you're so convinced a majority Black population is the root cause of this horrible violence, would you care to explain why nearly all of the Black countries on this list are in the Caribbean, when there's dozens more Black countries in Africa that are completely unaccounted for?

"Americas" fits the pattern here better than a racial explanation does.

herbw
+1
Level 51
Aug 31, 2021
Omg, I didn't expect I would score this quiz 100%. I got all the Central American countries at first then moved on to South Africa to try some luck, got the neighbouring countries too.

Then I tried Guyana and thought of the Caribbean countries. Super surprised that those island countries have such high murder rates. Why??

rely9
+2
Level 67
Aug 31, 2021
If Chicago was a country it'd be #1
JWatson24
+7
Level 71
Aug 31, 2021
Chicago Murder Rate: 20.7

Might want to check your sources before jumping to conclusions

FlyingG
+2
Level 69
Sep 2, 2021
Stil enough to be on the list. Honestly surprising.
stusum
+2
Level 64
Sep 3, 2021
Yeah still embarrassing that it's so high.
kalbahamut
+8
Level 81
Sep 5, 2021
For a city (generally much more densely populated than an entire country; with much higher concentration of poverty and crime), that's not even that bad. For example, the rate in Tijuana is 134, in Cape Town it's 68, and in St Louis it's 65. Chicago would not make a top 50 list of world cities by murder rate.

But it's a Republican talking point that Chicago is a warzone, and also that California is an unlivable s*hole, and so these things get repeated online a lot, confusing everyone who actually lives either place.

rabble
+3
Level 68
Feb 28, 2023
There's no reason to excuse Chicago's problem with crime. I'm sure the people who live there don't want violent crime in the city, regardless of their skin color or political affiliation. It's sort of similar to McKinney Texas, in median housing cost, and is @ 5,000people/sq mile vs 3,000 for McKinney.

McKinney has a homicide rate of @2/100k.

There's no excuse not to strive to do better.

TheForsakenFurby
+2
Level 74
Jun 14, 2024
That's true: there is always reason to strive to do better. But what kalba says is also true.

Chicago has its problems for sure, but it is overly demonized to push an agenda. A lot like how many people around where I live are convinced that Texas is stuffed to the brim with racists, an accusation which would leave most Texans dumbfounded.

RJG
+2
Level 61
Mar 2, 2023
True some American states are worse than the listed countries.
fuanacdc
+2
Level 85
Aug 29, 2023
It looks like Mississippi (23.7), Louisiana (21.3), and Alabama (15.9) would make the list. Washington DC is 30.0.
zackvampeta2021
+1
Level 35
Sep 1, 2021
bahamas?

...

RJG
+1
Level 61
Mar 2, 2023
19/20 didn't get Bahamas, despite I knew the fact it has a high murder rate. Phooey!
Zorritochido
+1
Level 42
May 9, 2023
When I saw this quiz I just thought of South Africa and most of America, I was right.

Btw, I'm from Mexico.

LoganP25
+6
Level 72
Oct 16, 2023
El Salvador has now dropped off the list.
Quizmaster
+9
Level ∞
Jun 13, 2024
Not only that, El Salvador's murder rate is much lower than the U.S. now and is comparable to European countries. Incredible.
Jato
+5
Level 71
Jun 15, 2024
Incorrect. The source shows that El Salvador has a rate of 7.8, while the United States is still ahead at 6.4, and the average European country is around only 2 or even less.
hage109
+1
Level 67
Jun 13, 2024
Thank you Bukele!
Kearsarge
+6
Level 68
Jun 14, 2024
Turns out, throwing literally everyone who has a tangential relationship to crime into prison without a trial decreases crime rates, at least in the short term. In the long term, I am dubious that an authoritarian police state is a good thing, states lead by authoritarians are not particularly stable in the long run so I would not expect this to end well.
protector441
+6
Level 48
Dec 10, 2023
For anyone interested, here is my theory, what those Caribbean and South African countries share:

1) extreme social and economical inequality levels

2) very diverse countries ethnically and racially = inequality is exacerbated by racism and often has racial backgrounds, history of structural racism is common

3) they are generally considered as medium-developed countries not developing ones and their average income is on world average & in reality the average income is a fiction and everybody is either very poor or very rich (their poverty levels are comparable to developing countries)

All of the mentioned is a perfect recipe for disaster as it creates strong sense of social injustice and struggle to break the glass ceiling by any means.

ALSO those countries have functional state and police forces to easily report and measure crime stats BUT on the same time they do not care about actually controlling the underdeveloped areas and are limited only to developed ones.

TheLonelyAlula
+1
Level 55
Jul 1, 2024
Yes, this is the correct answer. The one other relevant point is the drug trade. In reality, most of these murders are not random.
Emchupi
+2
Level 75
Jun 14, 2024
Keep importing people from these countries into the West.

Criminality increases? Well, that would be socioeconomic factos ig.

CaptainUnderpant
+4
Level 79
Jun 15, 2024
Any support for the nativist platitudes?
EvanAviator
+6
Level 59
Jun 16, 2024
commander of the third reich here in the chat
TheLonelyAlula
+2
Level 55
Jul 1, 2024
Lol, almost all of these countries are part of the west.
rabble
+1
Level 68
Jul 14, 2024
15,000 Haitian illegal aliens have found their way to the city of Springfield Ohio, population 60k. How interesting; what an opportunity for Springfield's culture
vitriden
+2
Level 82
Jun 14, 2024
I don't think I have ever managed to get all the answers on a quiz except for the first one... It just seemed like such a chill place...
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Jun 14, 2024
One love. One heart. Let's get together and feel all right.
Snoflakes
+1
Level 70
Jun 14, 2024
I suppose murder is the go-to solution for crime-related conflict in the Americas
DaveM
+4
Level 74
Jun 14, 2024
How is Israel not on this list
xyzzy
+4
Level 71
Jun 14, 2024
State sanctioned isn't probably counted. Plus that takes place mainly in Palestine.
Moose135
+2
Level 65
Jun 15, 2024
The New World has got a problem
CaptainUnderpant
+1
Level 79
Jun 15, 2024
*Christopher Columbus has entered the chat*
EvanAviator
+2
Level 59
Jun 16, 2024
Some of these countries are so small a few murders inflates the rate an insane amount. St. Kitts and Nevis, for example, with that 29.4 per 100,000 rate; they only have ~53,000 people which means that literally amounts to about 16 murders per year. As an American, I visited and went all around St. Kitts last year, honestly safest I've ever felt in a country, although I am ethnically very Caribbean so maybe I just fit in well.
theenforcer22
+1
Level 66
Jun 17, 2024
Full marks for The Robbster.
kimzz
+1
Level 68
Jun 29, 2024
Americas, you have a problem!
ALotOfStars
+1
Level 20
Jun 29, 2024
I have a question. Palau has 11.2 per 100k, (2 murders) Immedialty, i thought its becuase they only have 18k people However, 77 people are in jail, top 10 by rates!. Why is it so high, is it because palau is so american?
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