Tuesday, June 1, 2021

The US Murder Rate before the Pandemic

 

There has been a disturbing increase in the rate of murder in the US during the pandemic. Assuming that the intentional homicide rate in the US will revert back to pre-pandemic levels, here is a list of the intentional homicide rate per 100,000 people in individual countries in 2018 or 2019, just before the start of the pandemic 


El Salvador - 52.02
Jamaica - 43.85
Venezuela - 36.69
South Africa - 36.40
Bahamas - 30.90
Mexico - 29.07
Brazil - 27.38
Colombia - 25.34
Uganda - 10.42
Iraq - 10.08

Nigeria - 9.85
Russia - 8.21
Eritrea - 8.04
Ethiopia - 7.56
Haiti - 6.68
Zimbabwe - 6.67
Phillipines - 6.46
Ukraine - 6.20
Argentina - 5.32
Cuba - 4.99
 
United States - 4.96
 
Kenya - 4.93
Lithuania - 4.57
Latvia - 4.36
Moldova - 4.10

Pakistan - 3.88
Liberia - 3.23
India - 3.08

Turkey - 2.59
Thailand - 2.58
Belarus - 2.39
Estonia - 2.12

Canada - 1.76
Vietnam - 1.52
Israel - 1.36
Cyprus - 1.26
United Kingdom - 1.20
Sweden - 1.08

Germany - 0.95
Australia - 0.89
Ireland - 0.87
Portugal - 0.79
Poland - 0.73
South Korea - 0.60
Italy - 0.57
China - 0.53
Slovenia - 0.48
Norway - 0.47
Japan - 0.26
Singapore - 0.16
 
 
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