Murder and homicide

The longest yearly series on each page, from the source that counts most. Hover or use arrow keys for each year.

• Murder rate in the United States, 2025

  murders per 100,000 people, 1960–2025, FBI
• Homicide rate in England and Wales, year ending March 2025

  homicide victims per million people, 1967–2025, Homicide Index
• Homicide offenders per 100,000 people in the same group, by race and by sex, 1980-2025

  homicide offenders per 100,000 White residents, 1985–2025, FBI SHR

  • White
  • Black or African American
  • American Indian or Alaska Native
  • Asian or Pacific Islander
  • Male
  • Female
• Homicide rate in London, 2025

  homicides per 100,000 people, 2010–2025, Met Police
• Homicide victims in Norway, 2025

  homicide victims, 2011–2025, Kripos

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Years this site has for each country and breakdown. "Stopped" means the country's figures in the UN homicide file stop after that year while its totals continue (reporting gaps). An empty cell means no source on this site, not that none exists.

• 2025, Homicide Index: ONS note 4: Home Office statisticians undertake regular data quality exercises with police forces on suspect information, cancelled crimes and court outcomes for historical data. Totals shown in this table will not match previously published figures. source · page
• 2025, Homicide Index: ONS note 2: As at 5 December 2025; figures are subject to revision as cases are dealt with by the police and by the courts, or as further information becomes available. source · page
• 2025, Homicide Index: ONS: "Homicide cases are often complex and can take considerable time to reach an outcome in court." source · page
• 2022, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2022: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2022, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 1980. source · page
• 2022, FBI: From 2022 the FBI again accepted Summary Reporting System (SRS) data from agencies not yet on NIBRS, "to provide nationally representative data" (CIUS Methodology). source · page
• 2021, FBI: The FBI accepted only NIBRS data; it says its 2021 estimates are below a statistically acceptable level to be nationally representative and not comparable with other years (CIUS Table 1, note 4). source · page
• 2021, FBI SHR: On 1 January 2021 the UCR Program moved to NIBRS-only collection; SHR details for agencies reporting through NIBRS come from their incident reports. The FBI's CIUS Table 1 notes that its 2021 estimates "are below a statistically acceptable level to be nationally representative and are not comparable to other yearly estimates". SHR victims were 87.94% of the FBI's estimated murders in 2020, 78.86% in 2021 and 93.13% in 2022. The share of offender records with race not recorded went from 28.89% in 2020 to 23.71% in 2021. source · page
• 2020, Homicide Index: ONS note 14: Year ending March 2020 includes 39 human trafficking victims who were found dead in a lorry in Essex. source · page
• 2020, Homicide Index: ONS: "YE March 2020 includes 30 male and nine female victims whose bodies were found in a lorry in Essex." source · page
• 2020, FBI SHR: Vintage 2025 estimates start from the 2020 Census via the Modified Age and Race Census file, with "Some Other Race" redistributed to the OMB race categories. 2010-2019 are Vintage 2020 postcensal estimates. source · page
• 2020, FBI CIUS: Crime in the United States 2019 was the last edition with Expanded Homicide Data tables on ucr.fbi.gov; from 2020 the FBI publishes through the Crime Data Explorer, whose Expanded Homicide page shows victim and offender totals but no table of victim race by offender race. source · page
• 2020, Census: Vintage 2025 estimates start from the 2020 Census via the Modified Age and Race Census file, with "Some Other Race" redistributed to the OMB race categories. 2010-2019 are Vintage 2020 postcensal estimates. source · page
• 2018, Homicide Index: ONS note 13: Year ending March 2018 includes 31 victims of the terrorist attacks that involved multiple victims, including the Manchester Arena bombing, and the London Bridge attack and 11 victims of the Shoreham air crash. source · page
• 2018, Homicide Index: ONS: "YE March 2018 includes 21 female and 10 male victims of terrorist attacks that involved multiple victims, and 11 male victims of the Shoreham air crash." source · page
• 2017, Homicide Index: ONS note 12: Year ending March 2017 includes 96 victims of Hillsborough and four victims of the Westminster Bridge attack. source · page
• 2017, Homicide Index: ONS: "YE March 2017 includes 89 male and seven female victims of the Hillsborough disaster." source · page
• 2017, FBI SHR: From 2017 the CDE shows a category "Not Specified" for offender sex and race next to "Unknown" (RealStats counts both as not recorded), and lists "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander" apart from "Asian". RealStats adds Asian and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander together to keep one group. source · page
• 2016, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2016: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2016, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 2005. source · page
• 2014, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2014: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2014, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 1991. source · page
• 2014, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2014: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2014, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 2013. source · page
• 2012, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2012: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2012, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 2011. source · page
• 2011, Homicide Index: ONS note 11: Year ending March 2011 includes 12 victims of the Derrick Bird shooting. source · page
• 2011, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-8 to ICD-10 in 2011: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2011, and ICD-8 List A item A148 (E960-E978, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons, which also includes deaths from legal intervention) up to 1980. source · page
• 2008, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2008: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2008, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 1990. source · page
• 2008, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2008: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2008, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 2005. source · page
• 2007, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2007: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2007, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 2006. source · page
• 2006, Homicide Index: ONS note 10: Year ending March 2006 includes 52 victims of the 7 July London bombings. source · page
• 2006, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2006: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2006, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 2003. source · page
• 2006, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2006: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2006, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 2005. source · page
• 2006, FBI: From 2006 the values come from CIUS Table 1, which the FBI re-estimates as agencies send late data; earlier years come from its estimated-crimes file, which keeps older estimates. Where both cover a year (2006-2016) their murder rates differ by up to 0.7%. source · page
• 2005, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2005: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2005, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 2004. source · page
• 2004, Homicide Index: ONS note 9: Year ending March 2004 includes 20 cockle pickers who drowned in Morecambe Bay. source · page
• 2004, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2004: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2004, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 2003. source · page
• 2003, Homicide Index: ONS note 8: Year ending March 2003 includes 173 victims of Dr Harold Shipman. source · page
• 2003, Homicide Index: ONS: "the 173 homicides attributed to Doctor Harold Shipman as a result of Dame Janet Smith's inquiry took place over a long period of time but were all recorded by the police during year ending (YE) March 2003." source · page
• 2003, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2003: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2003, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 2002. source · page
• 2002, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 2002: deaths by assault are ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) from 2002, and ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) up to 2001. source · page
• 2002, WHO: WHO's data for this country switch from ICD-10 to ICD-9 in 2002: deaths by assault are ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B55 (E960-E969, homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons) from 2002, and ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault) up to 2001. source · page
• 2001, Homicide Index: ONS note 7: Year ending March 2001 includes 58 Chinese nationals who suffocated in a lorry on the way into the UK. source · page
• 2001, WHO deaths: Switch to ICD-10 (codes X85-Y09, assault). source · page

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