About this data

Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2025), via Our World in Data

• Intentional homicide is the unlawful killing of one person by another with intent to cause death or serious injury. UNODC applies one definition to every country, so figures can differ from national statistics, which use their own legal definitions and recording rules.
• UNODC collects figures from police and criminal justice records, and from death registrations. Rates are converted here from UNODC's 'per 100,000 people' to 'per million people', to match the site's other homicide charts.
• UNODC's figures for the UK end in 2021. Figures for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland separately, to more recent years, are in the chart of homicide rates across the UK.

This chart appears in Crime.