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Female homicide rate in Papua New Guinea

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women and girls killed in intentional homicides, per 100,000 women and girls

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What this number counts
Counts
Female victims of intentional homicide per 100,000 women and girls
Where
Papua New Guinea
When
2023 (one year, not an average)

No source gives a usable figure.

Where the number comes from (1 source)
SourceFigure and yearDefinitionQualityCounts for
WHO Mortality Database, female deaths by assaultWorld Health Organization (WHO) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-25
0.022023
Registered deaths of women and girls (all ages) with underlying cause assault, ICD-10 X85-Y09, divided by the UN World Population Prospects 2024 female population for 1 July, because WHO's population file has no figure for this year, times 100,000.

Codes used: ICD-10 3-character codes X85-Y09. Countries that report the condensed Tabulation List 1 contribute its assault item (1102), which covers the same X85-Y09 range; years where a country reports only a total for all external causes have no value. National rows only. Year rule: only WHO has data for this country, so its latest year is used.

Not counted: only about 9% of deaths in 2023 were registered, so this rate counts only a fraction of homicides and is far too low. Raw files: morticd10_part1-6.zip (1 female assault deaths) and WPP2024_Demographic_Indicators_Medium.csv.gz from UN World Population Prospects 2024 (https://population.un.org/wpp/). WHO publishes the data as the country sent them and does not adjust for incomplete registration. The same file records 62 female deaths of undetermined intent (Y10-Y34) for this year; some of these may be homicides.

4 of 5 checks
  • Yes: Method and definitions published. WHO publishes the file layout, ICD-10 code lists and data notes in its documentation.
  • Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official cause-of-death statistics sent to WHO by national authorities.
  • Yes: Full count or representative sample. Civil registration counts every registered, medically certified death, not a sample.
  • Yes: Raw data downloadable. Raw death and population files are free downloads.
  • No: No known break or quality problem. Registered deaths from all causes for 2023 are 9% of the UN World Population Prospects estimate of all deaths; more deaths are coded as undetermined intent (Y10-Y34: 62) than as assault (1) for this year, so the assault count is likely too low.
Not counted
Who reports it, and since when

Which kinds of source measure this number, which years each one published, and where the reporting stops or has holes.

No source of these kinds: police and justice records, independent count.

    Why the numbers differ
    • They come from two separate systems: UNODC compiles police and criminal justice records of female victims, while the WHO Mortality Database counts death certificates of women and girls with the cause coded as assault (ICD-10 X85-Y09).
    • Both divide by the female population, but UNODC uses UN World Population Prospects figures and WHO uses the population the country reported, so the bases can differ slightly.
    • Where many deaths go unregistered, or many violent deaths are coded as "undetermined intent", the WHO count falls below the police count.
    • Small counts make single-year rates jump. In countries with few female victims a year, one or two deaths change the rate visibly.
    Common mistakes
    • A female homicide rate is not a femicide count. It includes every intentional killing of a woman or girl, whatever the motive or the relationship to the perpetrator.
    • The rate per 100,000 women and girls cannot be compared directly with a rate per 100,000 people, which uses the whole population.
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