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[dealerschool2006]

the places that have more restrictive gun laws have more criminals finding guns to use than the good citizens can buy to protect themselves...the police are minutes away when seconds count....

[fuagf]

List of countries by intentional homicide rate

Contents

1 2010s
2 2000s
2.1 Country subdivisions
2.1.1 Australia
2.1.2 Canada
2.1.3 Mexico
2.1.4 United States
3 See also
4 References

List of countries by intentional homicide rate per year per 100,000 inhabitants for the years from 2000 onwards. The reliability of underlying national murder rate data may vary. The legal definition of "intentional homicide" differs among countries. Intentional homicide may or may not include infanticide, assisted suicide or euthanasia.

Intentional homicide demographics are affected by changes in trauma care, leading to changed lethality of violent assaults, so the intentional homicide rate may not necessarily indicate the overall level of societal violence. They may also be underreported for political reasons.

Another problem for the comparability of the following figures is that some data may include attempts. In general the values in this list should not include attempts except it is mentioned otherwise.

A study undertaken by the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development estimated that there were approximately 490,000 intentional homicides in 2004. The study estimated that the global rate was 7.6 intentional homicides per 100,000 inhabitants for 2004.

For the year 2010 UNODC made a similar study. It presumed a number of 468,000
intentional homicides for this year. That would correspond to a worldwide rate of 6.9.

[rough tables .. just to have the lists here]

Intentional homicide rates per 100,000 population by region

........................ 2004 .. 2010
Southern Africa 37.3 32
Central America 29.3 25
South America 25.9 21
West and Central Africa 21.6 19
East Africa 20.8 23
Africa 20 17.4
Caribbean 18.1 21
Americas 16.2 15.5
East Europe 15.7 7
World 7.6 6.9
North Africa 7.6 6
Central Asia and Transcaucasian countries 6.6 6
North America 6.5 4.7
Europe 5.4 3.5
Near and Middle East/Southwest Asia 4.4 3
Oceania 4 3.5
South Asia 3.4 4
Asia 3.2 3.1
Southeast Europe 3.2 1.5
East and Southeast Asia 2.8 3
West and Central Europe 1.5 1.2


2010s

Country .. Sources .. 2010 .. 2011 .. Most recent

Honduras [7][8][9] 78 86 86
El Salvador [7][8][10] 66 71 71
Saint Kitts and Nevis [7][11][12] 38 68 68
Venezuela [13][14] 48 67 67
Belize [7][8][15][16] 42 39 39
Guatemala [7][8][17] 41 39 39
Jamaica [7][18] 52 39 39
Bahamas [19] 27 36 36
Colombia [20][21] 38 33 33
South Africa [22] 32 32
Dominican Republic [7][23] 25 31 31
Trinidad and Tobago [24][25] 37 28 28
Brazil [26] 25 25
Dominica [7] 22 22
Saint Lucia [7][27] 25 22 22
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines [7] 22 22
Panama [7][8][28] 22 20 20
Ecuador [7] 18 18
Guyana [7] 18 18
Mexico [29] 18 18
Nicaragua [7][8] 13 13
Grenada [7] 12 12
Paraguay [7] 12 12
Russia [30][31] 13 12 12
Barbados [7] 11 11
Costa Rica [7][8] 11 11
Bolivia [7] 8.9 8.9
Moldova [7] 7.4 7.4
Haiti [7] 6.9 6.9
Antigua and Barbuda [7] 6.8 6.8
Estonia [32] 6.3 6.3
Uruguay [7] 6.1 6.1
Thailand [7] 5.3 5.3
United States [33] 4.8 4.8
Georgia [7] 4.1 4.1
Latvia [34] 3.6 4.1 4.1
Taiwan [35] 3.2 3.2
Bangladesh [36] 2.4 2.4
Lebanon [7] 2.2 2.2
Finland [37] 2.1 2.1 2.1
Israel [7][38] 2.1 2.1
Macedonia [7] 1.94 1.94
Czech Republic [39] 1.67 1.67
Canada [40] 1.62 1.62
New Zealand [41] 1.76 1.41 1.41
Morocco [7] 1.40 1.40
Chile [42] 1.33 1.33
Ireland [43] 1.25 1.25
United Kingdom [44][45][46] 1.23 1.23
Australia [47] 1.16 1.16
Netherlands [48] 0.87 0.87
Italy [49] 0.87 0.87
Sweden [50] 0.97 0.86 0.86
Denmark [51] 0.85 0.85 0.85
Germany [52] 0.84 0.84
Japan (including attempts) [53] 0.83 0.83
Spain [54] 0.72 0.72
Austria [55] 0.56 0.56
Norway [56] 0.46 0.46

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

neat tables inside ..

[Garden Rose]

In your post, one of the links has a spreadsheet on gun crimes which lists Florida as having no murders by handguns, is that accurate?