Murder Rate by Nation and Continent

Murder Rate by Nation and Continent.  The Americas now have the highest  murder rate among the continents.  A great deal of immigration is coming from these countries.  

http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/americas-replaces-africa-as-most-violent-region-in-world-un

Description	English: Murder rate per 100,000 inhabitants most recent year.    0-1    1-2    2-5    5-10    10-20    >20
Date	2012
Source	Homicide Statistics 2012. UNODC.
Author	me

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

By subregion

UNODC murder rates most recent year
Subregion	Rate	Count	Region
Eastern Africa	21.9	69,344	Africa
Middle Africa	20.8	25,330	Africa
Northern Africa	5.9	12,276	Africa
Southern Africa	30.5	17,484	Africa
Western Africa	15.4	44,671	Africa
Caribbean	16.9	7,001	Americas
Central America	28.5	44,997	Americas
Northern America	3.9	13,558	Americas
South America	20.0	79,039	Americas
Central Asia	6.1	3,667	Asia
Eastern Asia	1.3	19,828	Asia
South-Eastern Asia	6.0	34,787	Asia
Southern Asia	3.8	63,102	Asia
Western Asia	2.6	5,736	Asia
Eastern Europe	6.4	19,072	Europe
Northern Europe	1.5	1,432	Europe
Southern Europe	1.4	1,669	Europe
Western Europe	1.0	1,852	Europe
Australasia	1.0	268	Oceania
Melanesia	11.1	898	Oceania
Micronesia	2.5	10	Oceania
Polynesia	0.1	3	Oceania

By country[edit]

UNODC murder rates most recent year (full table here)
Country	Rate	Count	Region	Subregion
Burundi	21.7	1,726	Africa	Eastern Africa
Comoros	12.2	85	Africa	Eastern Africa
Djibouti	3.4	29	Africa	Eastern Africa
Eritrea	17.8	879	Africa	Eastern Africa
Ethiopia	25.5	20,239	Africa	Eastern Africa
Kenya	20.1	7,733	Africa	Eastern Africa
Madagascar	8.1	1,588	Africa	Eastern Africa
Malawi	36.0	5,039	Africa	Eastern Africa
Mauritius	2.5	33	Africa	Eastern Africa
Mozambique	8.8	1,925	Africa	Eastern Africa
Rwanda	17.1	1,708	Africa	Eastern Africa
Seychelles	8.3	7	Africa	Eastern Africa
Somalia	1.5	138+	Africa	Eastern Africa
Uganda	36.3	11,373	Africa	Eastern Africa
Tanzania	24.5	10,357	Africa	Eastern Africa
Zambia	38.0	4,710	Africa	Eastern Africa
Zimbabwe	14.3	1,775	Africa	Eastern Africa
Angola	19.0	3,426	Africa	Middle Africa
Cameroon	19.7	3,700	Africa	Middle Africa
Central African Republic	29.3	1,240	Africa	Middle Africa
Chad	15.8	1,686	Africa	Middle Africa
Congo	30.8	1,180	Africa	Middle Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo	21.7	13,558	Africa	Middle Africa
Equatorial Guinea	20.7	137	Africa	Middle Africa
São Tomé and Príncipe	1.9	3	Africa	Middle Africa
Gabon	13.8	200	Africa	Middle Africa
Algeria	1.5	516	Africa	Northern Africa
Egypt	1.2	992	Africa	Northern Africa
Libya	2.9	176+	Africa	Northern Africa
Morocco	1.4	447	Africa	Northern Africa
Sudan	24.2	10,028++	Africa	Northern Africa
Tunisia	1.1	117	Africa	Northern Africa
Botswana	14.5	287	Africa	Southern Africa
Lesotho	35.2	764	Africa	Southern Africa
Namibia	17.2	352	Africa	Southern Africa
South Africa	31.8	15,940	Africa	Southern Africa
Swaziland	12.9	141	Africa	Southern Africa
Benin	15.1	1,262	Africa	Western Africa
Burkina Faso	18.0	2,876	Africa	Western Africa
Cape Verde	11.6	56	Africa	Western Africa
Ivory Coast	56.9	10,801	Africa	Western Africa
Gambia	10.8	106	Africa	Western Africa
Ghana	15.7	3,646	Africa	Western Africa
Guinea	22.5	2,152	Africa	Western Africa
Guinea-Bissau	20.2	294	Africa	Western Africa
Liberia	10.1	371	Africa	Western Africa
Mali	8.0	1,157	Africa	Western Africa
Mauritania	14.7	485	Africa	Western Africa
Niger	3.8	552	Africa	Western Africa
Nigeria	12.2	18,422	Africa	Western Africa
Senegal	8.7	1,027	Africa	Western Africa
Sierra Leone	14.9	837	Africa	Western Africa
Togo	10.9	627	Africa	Western Africa
Anguilla	6.8	1	Americas	Caribbean
Antigua and Barbuda	6.8	6	Americas	Caribbean
Bahamas	27.4	94	Americas	Caribbean
Barbados	11.3	31	Americas	Caribbean
British Virgin Islands	8.6	2	Americas	Caribbean
Cayman Islands	8.4	5	Americas	Caribbean
Cuba	5.0	563	Americas	Caribbean
Dominica	22.1	15	Americas	Caribbean
Dominican Republic	25.0	2,513	Americas	Caribbean
Grenada	11.5	12	Americas	Caribbean
Guadeloupe	7.0	32	Americas	Caribbean
Haiti	6.9	689	Americas	Caribbean
Jamaica	40.9	1,125	Americas	Caribbean
Martinique	4.2	17	Americas	Caribbean
Montserrat	19.7	1	Americas	Caribbean
Puerto Rico	26.2	983	Americas	Caribbean
Saint Kitts and Nevis	38.2	20	Americas	Caribbean
Saint Lucia	25.2	44	Americas	Caribbean
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	22.9	25	Americas	Caribbean
Trinidad and Tobago	35.2	472	Americas	Caribbean
Turks and Caicos Islands	8.7	3	Americas	Caribbean
U.S. Virgin Islands	39.2	43	Americas	Caribbean
Belize	41.4	129	Americas	Central America
Costa Rica	10.0	474	Americas	Central America
El Salvador	69.2	4,308	Americas	Central America
Guatemala	38.5	5,681	Americas	Central America
Honduras	91.6	7,104	Americas	Central America
Mexico	23.7	27,199+	Americas	Northern America
Nicaragua	12.6	738	Americas	Central America
Panama	21.6	759	Americas	Central America
Bermuda	12.3	8	Americas	Northern America
Canada	1.6	554	Americas	Northern America
United States	4.8	14,748	Americas	Northern America
Argentina	3.4	1,360	Americas	South America
Bolivia	8.9	884	Americas	South America
Brazil	21.0	40,974	Americas	South America
Chile	3.7	639	Americas	South America
Colombia	31.4	14,746+	Americas	South America
Ecuador	18.2	2,638	Americas	South America
French Guiana	13.3	30	Americas	South America
Guyana	18.6	140	Americas	South America
Paraguay	11.5	741	Americas	South America
Peru	10.3	2,969	Americas	South America
Suriname	4.6	24	Americas	South America
Uruguay	5.9	199	Americas	South America
Venezuela	45.1	13,080	Americas	South America
Kazakhstan	8.8	1,418	Asia	Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan	20.1	1,072	Asia	Central Asia
Tajikistan	2.1	143	Asia	Central Asia
Turkmenistan	4.2	203	Asia	Central Asia
Uzbekistan	3.1	831	Asia	Central Asia
China	1.0	13,410	Asia	Eastern Asia
Taiwan	3.2	743	Asia	Eastern Asia
North Korea	15.2	3,658	Asia	Eastern Asia
Hong Kong	0.2	17	Asia	Eastern Asia
Japan	0.4	506	Asia	Eastern Asia
Macau	0.7	4	Asia	Eastern Asia
Mongolia	8.7	239	Asia	Eastern Asia
South Korea[note 1][note 2]	2.6	1,251	Asia	Eastern Asia
Brunei	0.5	2	Asia	South-Eastern Asia
Cambodia	3.4	448	Asia	South-Eastern Asia
Indonesia	8.1	18,963	Asia	South-Eastern Asia
Laos	4.6	279	Asia	South-Eastern Asia
Malaysia	2.3	604	Asia	South-Eastern Asia
Myanmar	10.2	4,800	Asia	South-Eastern Asia
Philippines	5.4	4,947	Asia	South-Eastern Asia
Singapore	0.3	16	Asia	South-Eastern Asia
Thailand	4.8	3,307	Asia	South-Eastern Asia
Timor-Leste	6.9	75	Asia	South-Eastern Asia
Vietnam	1.6	1,346	Asia	South-Eastern Asia
Afghanistan	2.4	712+	Asia	Southern Asia
Bangladesh	2.7	3,988	Asia	Southern Asia
Bhutan	1.0	7	Asia	Southern Asia
India	3.5	42,923+	Asia	Southern Asia
Iran	3.0	2,215	Asia	Southern Asia
Maldives	1.6	5	Asia	Southern Asia
Nepal	2.8	818	Asia	Southern Asia
Pakistan	7.8	13,860+	Asia	Southern Asia
Sri Lanka	3.6	745	Asia	Southern Asia
Armenia	1.4	44	Asia	Western Asia
Azerbaijan	2.2	206	Asia	Western Asia
Bahrain	0.6	6	Asia	Western Asia
Cyprus	1.7	19	Asia	Western Asia
Iraq	2.0	608+	Asia	Western Asia
Israel	2.1	159+	Asia	Western Asia
Jordan	1.8	100	Asia	Western Asia
Kuwait	2.2	59	Asia	Western Asia
Lebanon	2.2	95	Asia	Western Asia
Palestine	4.1	145+	Asia	Western Asia
Oman	0.7	18	Asia	Western Asia
Qatar	0.9	13	Asia	Western Asia
Saudi Arabia	1.0	265+	Asia	Western Asia
Syria	2.3	463+	Asia	Western Asia
Turkey	3.3	2,320	Asia	Western Asia
United Arab Emirates	0.8	39	Asia	Western Asia
Yemen	4.2	990+	Asia	Western Asia
Belarus	4.9	473	Europe	Eastern Europe
Bulgaria	2.0	147	Europe	Eastern Europe
Czech Republic	1.7	181	Europe	Eastern Europe
Georgia	4.3	187	Europe	Eastern Europe
Hungary	1.3	133	Europe	Eastern Europe
Poland	1.1	436	Europe	Eastern Europe
Moldova	7.5	267	Europe	Eastern Europe
Romania	2.0	421	Europe	Eastern Europe
Russia	10.2	14,574	Europe	Eastern Europe
Slovakia	1.5	84	Europe	Eastern Europe
Ukraine	5.2	2,356	Europe	Eastern Europe
Denmark	0.9	47	Europe	Northern Europe
Estonia	5.2	70	Europe	Northern Europe
Finland	2.2	118	Europe	Northern Europe
Greenland	19.2	11	Europe	Northern Europe
Iceland	0.3	1	Europe	Northern Europe
Ireland	1.2	54	Europe	Northern Europe
Latvia	3.1	70	Europe	Northern Europe
Lithuania	6.6	219	Europe	Northern Europe
Norway	0.6	29	Europe	Northern Europe
Sweden	1.0	91	Europe	Northern Europe
United Kingdom	1.2	722	Europe	Northern Europe
Albania	4.0	127	Europe	Southern Europe
Andorra	1.3	1	Europe	Southern Europe
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.5	56	Europe	Southern Europe
Croatia	1.4	62	Europe	Southern Europe
Greece	1.5	176	Europe	Southern Europe
Italy	0.9	529	Europe	Southern Europe
Malta	1.0	4	Europe	Southern Europe
Montenegro	3.5	22	Europe	Southern Europe
Portugal	1.2	124	Europe	Southern Europe
Serbia	1.2	123	Europe	Southern Europe
Slovenia	0.7	15	Europe	Southern Europe
Spain	0.8	390	Europe	Southern Europe
Macedonia	1.9	40	Europe	Southern Europe
Austria	0.6	56	Europe	Western Europe
Belgium	1.7	180	Europe	Western Europe
France	1.1	682	Europe	Western Europe
Germany	0.8	690	Europe	Western Europe
Liechtenstein	2.8	1	Europe	Western Europe
Luxembourg	2.5	12	Europe	Western Europe
Monaco	0.0	0	Europe	Western Europe
Netherlands	1.1	179	Europe	Western Europe
Switzerland	0.7	52	Europe	Western Europe
Australia	1.0	229	Oceania	Australasia
New Zealand	0.9	39	Oceania	Australasia
Fiji	2.8	23	Oceania	Melanesia
Papua New Guinea	13.0	854	Oceania	Melanesia
Solomon Islands	3.7	19	Oceania	Melanesia
Vanuatu	0.9	2	Oceania	Melanesia
Guam	0.6	1	Oceania	Micronesia
Kiribati	7.3	7	Oceania	Micronesia
Federated States of Micronesia	0.9	1	Oceania	Micronesia
Nauru	9.8	1	Oceania	Micronesia
Palau	0.0	0	Oceania	Micronesia
French Polynesia	0.4	1	Oceania	Polynesia
Samoa	1.1	2	Oceania	Polynesia
Tonga	1.0	1	Oceania	Polynesia

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