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Intentional homicides

An intentional homicide is defined as an unlawful death inflicted upon a person with the intent to cause death or serious injury.

Coverage
196 of 238 countries
Latest data
2023
Series
196
Unit
per 100,000 people
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator
intentional-homicides
Interva ID
worldbank-intentional-homicides

Recency

current

data to 2023; catalog to 2025

Provenance

2 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2023; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 2 year(s) behind (current).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

97%

109 of 196 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 97% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 196 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 23 observations; the earliest begins in 1990.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.

By country

Intentional homicides for each of the 196 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania20231.39per 100,000 people
Algeria20231.16per 100,000 people
Antigua and Barbuda202310.72per 100,000 people
Argentina20234.49per 100,000 people
Armenia20232.21per 100,000 people
Australia20230.85per 100,000 people
Austria20230.88per 100,000 people
Azerbaijan20232.16per 100,000 people
Barbados20237.44per 100,000 people
Bermuda20236.18per 100,000 people

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    UN Office on Drugs and Crime

    UNODC Research - Data Portal – Intentional Homicide, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). Intentional homicides. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-intentional-homicides (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-intentional-homicides,
  title        = {Intentional homicides},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-intentional-homicides}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-intentional-homicides; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
  urldate      = {2026-11-07}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

API access

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