International<unk>  rate per 100,000 inhabitants, 2011 The World Health Organization reported in October 2002 that a person is<unk> ed every 60 seconds. An estimated 520,000 people were<unk> ed in 2000 around the globe. Another study estimated the worldwide<unk>  rate at 456,300 in 2010 with a 35% increase since 1990. Two-fifths of them were young people between the ages of 10 and 29 who were killed by other young people. Because<unk>  is the least likely crime to go unreported, statistics of<unk>  are seen as a bellwether of overall crime rates.<unk>  rates vary greatly among countries and societies around the world. In the Western world,<unk>  rates in most countries have declined significantly during the 20th century and are now between 1 and 4 cases per 100,000 people per year. Latin America and the Caribbean, the region with the highest<unk>  rate in the world, experienced more than 2.5 million<unk> s between 2000 and 2017. UNODC : Per 100,000 population (2011)<unk>  rates by varies countries<unk>  rates in jurisdictions such as Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Iceland, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Germany are among the lowest in the world, around 0.3–1 cases per 100,000 people per year; the rate of the United States is among the highest of developed countries, around 4.5 in 2014, with rates in larger cities sometimes over 40 per 100,000. The top ten highest<unk>  rates are in Honduras (91.6 per 100,000), El Salvador, Ivory Coast, Venezuela, Belize, Jamaica, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guatemala, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Zambia. (UNODC, 2011 – full table here). The following absolute<unk>  counts per-country are not comparable because they are not adjusted by each country's total population. Nonetheless, they are included here for reference, with 2010 used as the base year (they may or may not include justifiable homicide, depending on the jurisdiction). There were 52,260<unk> s in Brazil, consecutively elevating the record set in 2009. Over half a million people were shot to death in Brazil between 1979 and 2003. 33,335<unk>  cases were registered across India, approximately 17,000<unk> s in Colombia (the<unk>  rate was 38 per 100,000 people, in 2008<unk> s went down to 15,000), approximately 16,000<unk> s in South Africa, approximately 15,000<unk> s in the United States, approximately 26,000<unk> s in Mexico, about 8,000<unk> s committed in Russia, approximately 13,000<unk> s in Venezuela, approximately 4,000<unk> s in El Salvador, approximately 1,400<unk> s in Jamaica, approximately 550<unk> s in Canada and approximately 470<unk> s in Trinidad and Tobago. Pakistan reported 12,580<unk> s.<unk>  in the United States Lake Bodom<unk> s in Espoo, Finland is the most famous unsolved homicide cases in Finnish criminal history. The tent is investigated immediately after the<unk> s in 1960. The scene of a<unk>  in Rio de Janeiro. More than 800,000 people were<unk> ed in Brazil between 1980 and 2004. In the United States, 666,160 people were killed between 1960 and 1996. Approximately 90% of<unk> s in the US are committed by males. Between 1976 and 2005, 23.5% of all<unk>  victims and 64.8% of victims<unk> ed by intimate partners were female. For women in the US, homicide is the leading cause of death in the workplace. In the US,<unk>  is the leading cause of death for African American males aged 15 to 34. Between 1976 and 2008, African Americans were victims of 329,825 homicides. In 2006, Federal Bureau of Investigation's Supplementary Homicide Report indicated that nearly half of the 14,990<unk>  victims that year were Black (7421). In the year 2007, there were 3,221 black victims and 3,587 white victims of non-negligent homicides. While 2,905 of the black victims were killed by a black offender, 2,918 of the white victims were killed by white offenders. There were 566 white victims of black offenders and 245 black victims of white offenders. The "white" category in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) includes non-black Hispanics.<unk>  demographics are affected by the improvement of trauma care, which has resulted in reduced lethality of violent assaults – thus the<unk>  rate may not necessarily indicate the overall level of social violence. Workplace homicide, which tripled during the 1980s, is the fastest growing category of<unk>  in America. Development of<unk>  rates over time in different countries is often used by both supporters and opponents of capital punishment and gun control. Using properly filtered data, it is possible to make the case for or against either of these issues. For example, one could look at<unk>  rates in the United States from 1950 to 2000, and notice that those rates went up sharply shortly after a moratorium on death sentences was effectively imposed in the late 1960s. This fact has been used to argue that capital punishment serves as a deterrent and, as such, it is morally justified. Capital punishment opponents frequently counter that the United States has much higher<unk>  rates than Canada and most European Union countries, although all those countries have abolished the death penalty. Overall, the global pattern is too complex, and on average, the influence of both these factors may not be significant and could be more social, economic, and cultural. Despite the immense improvements in forensics in the past few decades, the fraction of<unk> s solved has decreased in the United States, from 90% in 1960 to 61% in 2007. Solved<unk>  rates in major U.S. cities varied in 2007 from 36% in Boston, Massachusetts to 76% in San Jose, California. Major factors affecting the arrest rate include witness cooperation and the number of people assigned to investigate the case. History of<unk>  rates Intentional homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants, 2009 According to scholar Pieter Spierenburg homicide rates per 100,000 in Europe have fallen over the centuries, from 35 per 100,000 in medieval times, to 20 in 1500 AD, 5 in 1700, to below two per 100,000 in 1900. In the United States,<unk>  rates have been higher and have fluctuated. They fell below 2 per 100,000 by 1900, rose during the first half of the century, dropped in the years following World War II, and bottomed out at 4.0 in 1957 before rising again. The rate stayed in 9 to 10 range most of the period from 1972 to 1994, before falling to 5 in present times. The increase since 1957 would have been even greater if not for the significant improvements in medical techniques and emergency response times, which mean that more and more attempted homicide victims survive. According to one estimate, if the lethality levels of criminal assaults of 1964 still applied in 1993, the country would have seen the<unk>  rate of around 26 per 100,000, almost triple the actually observed rate of 9.5 per 100,000. The historical homicide rate in Stockholm since 1400 AD. The<unk>  rate was very high in the Middle Ages. The rate has declined greatly: from 45/100,000 to a low of 0.6 in the 1950s. The last decades have seen the homicide rate rise slowly. A similar, but less pronounced pattern has been seen in major European countries as well. The<unk>  rate in the United Kingdom fell to 1 per 100,000 by the beginning of the 20th century and as low as 0.62 per 100,000 in 1960, and was at 1.28 per 100,000 . The<unk>  rate in France (excluding Corsica) bottomed out after World War II at less than 0.4 per 100,000, quadrupling to 1.6 per 100,000 since then. The specific factors driving this dynamics in<unk>  rates are complex and not universally agreed upon. Much of the raise in the U.S.<unk>  rate during the first half of the 20th century is generally thought to be attributed to gang violence associated with Prohibition. Since most<unk> s are committed by young males, the near simultaneous low in the<unk>  rates of major developed countries circa 1960 can be attributed to low birth rates during the Great Depression and World War II. Causes of further moves are more controversial. Some of the more exotic factors claimed to affect<unk>  rates include the availability of abortion and the likelihood of chronic exposure to lead during childhood (due to the use of leaded paint in houses and tetraethyllead as a gasoline additive in internal combustion engines).
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