Countries With the Lowest Homicide Rates

Every country with a figure for homicide rate, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are American Samoa (0), Channel Islands (0) and Gibraltar (0). The middle country of the 182 has 2.47.

What this measures

Intentional homicide rate (per 100,000 population). Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. For this measure, higher is worse.

Counts victims of intentional homicide (murder). Homicide is the crime least often left unreported. So it is the only crime figure similar enough across countries to use here. Rates of assault, theft and rape reflect how often people report crimes and how police record them, at least as much as how much crime there is, so they are left out on purpose. Even homicide figures shift when a country switches between police records and public-health records.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2010–2024. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on homicide rate

• Countries With the Highest Homicide Rates
• Homicide rate by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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• Countries With the Lowest Armed Conflict Present

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.