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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

 

 

Links and References

 

List of countries by intentional homicide rate