Intentional Homicide Rate (proxy for homicide in train stations)
Country-level intentional homicide rate (victims per 100,000) used as a proxy for “homicide in train stations” due to lack of harmonized station-level data.
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Key Insights
- •Homicide rates vary widely across countries, from ~0.2 to >50 victims per 100,000.
- •Several countries in the Americas and parts of Africa show substantially higher national homicide rates than most of Europe and East Asia.
- •Many Western and Northern European countries cluster below ~1.5 per 100,000.
- •This proxy is useful for a global map of relative homicide burden, but it cannot attribute risk to train stations specifically.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 6.2per 100,000)
About This Statistic
Internationally comparable, country-level statistics on homicides specifically occurring in train stations are generally not collected or published in a harmonized way across countries. Police-recorded crime data is often available only at national level, by broad location type, or for select cities—making cross-country map visualization impractical for the specific query.
As the closest robust proxy with broad global coverage, this dataset uses the intentional homicide rate (victims per 100,000 population). It captures overall lethal violence in a country and can be used as an indicator of underlying homicide risk environment, but it does not isolate railway or transit-station incidents.
Methodology
Values represent the intentional homicide rate: the number of victims of intentional homicide per 100,000 population. Intentional homicide is defined (UNODC) as unlawful death purposefully inflicted on a person by another person. Where the most recent year is unavailable for a country, the nearest available recent year is used (mixed-year approach) to maximize coverage for mapping.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 42.0per 100,000 |
| 2 | Venezuela | 40.4per 100,000 |
| 3 | Belize | 37.8per 100,000 |
| 4 | Honduras | 35.5per 100,000 |
| 5 | Trinidad and Tobago | 35.0per 100,000 |
| 6 | Mexico | 28.1per 100,000 |
| 7 | Colombia | 26.1per 100,000 |
| 8 | Guyana | 23.0per 100,000 |
| 9 | Brazil | 22.3per 100,000 |
| 10 | Nigeria | 22.0per 100,000 |
| 11 | Papua New Guinea | 22.0per 100,000 |
| 12 | El Salvador | 17.6per 100,000 |
| 13 | Republic of the Congo | 16.0per 100,000 |
| 14 | Myanmar | 15.0per 100,000 |
| 15 | Cameroon | 15.0per 100,000 |
| 16 | Guatemala | 15.0per 100,000 |
| 17 | Cape Verde | 13.7per 100,000 |
| 18 | Ecuador | 13.7per 100,000 |
| 19 | Costa Rica | 11.5per 100,000 |
| 20 | Dominican Republic | 10.7per 100,000 |
| 21 | Namibia | 10.0per 100,000 |
| 22 | Nicaragua | 10.0per 100,000 |
| 23 | Panama | 10.0per 100,000 |
| 24 | Suriname | 10.0per 100,000 |
| 25 | Uruguay | 9.3per 100,000 |
| 26 | Russian Federation | 9.2per 100,000 |
| 27 | Philippines | 7.7per 100,000 |
| 28 | Zimbabwe | 7.1per 100,000 |
| 29 | Peru | 7.0per 100,000 |
| 30 | Afghanistan | 6.9per 100,000 |
| 31 | Paraguay | 6.8per 100,000 |
| 32 | United States of America | 6.8per 100,000 |
| 33 | United Republic of Tanzania | 6.4per 100,000 |
| 34 | Syrian Arab Republic | 6.0per 100,000 |
| 35 | Yemen | 6.0per 100,000 |
| 36 | Bolivia | 5.7per 100,000 |
| 37 | Cuba | 5.0per 100,000 |
| 38 | Mozambique | 5.0per 100,000 |
| 39 | Chile | 4.8per 100,000 |
| 40 | Lithuania | 4.5per 100,000 |
| 41 | Thailand | 4.4per 100,000 |
| 42 | Ukraine | 4.2per 100,000 |
| 43 | Azerbaijan | 4.2per 100,000 |
| 44 | Argentina | 4.2per 100,000 |
| 45 | Armenia | 4.2per 100,000 |
| 46 | Iraq | 4.0per 100,000 |
| 47 | Uganda | 4.0per 100,000 |
| 48 | Pakistan | 3.7per 100,000 |
| 49 | Ghana | 3.3per 100,000 |
| 50 | Latvia | 3.1per 100,000 |
| 51 | Ethiopia | 3.0per 100,000 |
| 52 | India | 3.0per 100,000 |
| 53 | Kazakhstan | 3.0per 100,000 |
| 54 | Zambia | 3.0per 100,000 |
| 55 | Kenya | 2.5per 100,000 |
| 56 | Islamic Republic of Iran | 2.3per 100,000 |
| 57 | Türkiye | 2.3per 100,000 |
| 58 | Egypt | 2.3per 100,000 |
| 59 | Rwanda | 2.2per 100,000 |
| 60 | Canada | 2.0per 100,000 |
| 61 | Sri Lanka | 2.0per 100,000 |
| 62 | Djibouti | 2.0per 100,000 |
| 63 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 2.0per 100,000 |
| 64 | Lebanon | 2.0per 100,000 |
| 65 | Nepal | 2.0per 100,000 |
| 66 | Somalia | 2.0per 100,000 |
| 67 | Sudan | 2.0per 100,000 |
| 68 | Togo | 2.0per 100,000 |
| 69 | Bangladesh | 2.0per 100,000 |
| 70 | Estonia | 1.7per 100,000 |
| 71 | Benin | 1.5per 100,000 |
| 72 | Senegal | 1.5per 100,000 |
| 73 | Vietnam | 1.5per 100,000 |
| 74 | Belgium | 1.4per 100,000 |
| 75 | Sweden | 1.3per 100,000 |
| 76 | Tunisia | 1.3per 100,000 |
| 77 | Albania | 1.3per 100,000 |
| 78 | Algeria | 1.3per 100,000 |
| 79 | Finland | 1.2per 100,000 |
| 80 | Kuwait | 1.2per 100,000 |
| 81 | Malaysia | 1.2per 100,000 |
| 82 | Morocco | 1.2per 100,000 |
| 83 | France | 1.1per 100,000 |
| 84 | Cambodia | 1.0per 100,000 |
| 85 | Hungary | 1.0per 100,000 |
| 86 | Israel | 1.0per 100,000 |
| 87 | Serbia | 1.0per 100,000 |
| 88 | United Kingdom | 1.0per 100,000 |
| 89 | Bulgaria | 0.9per 100,000 |
| 90 | Croatia | 0.9per 100,000 |
| 91 | Ireland | 0.9per 100,000 |
| 92 | New Zealand | 0.9per 100,000 |
| 93 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.9per 100,000 |
| 94 | Germany | 0.8per 100,000 |
| 95 | Georgia | 0.7per 100,000 |
| 96 | Jordan | 0.7per 100,000 |
| 97 | Poland | 0.7per 100,000 |
| 98 | Portugal | 0.7per 100,000 |
| 99 | Romania | 0.7per 100,000 |
| 100 | Australia | 0.7per 100,000 |
| 101 | Solomon Islands | 0.7per 100,000 |
| 102 | Czech Republic | 0.6per 100,000 |
| 103 | Denmark | 0.6per 100,000 |
| 104 | Greece | 0.6per 100,000 |
| 105 | Luxembourg | 0.6per 100,000 |
| 106 | Netherlands | 0.6per 100,000 |
| 107 | Saudi Arabia | 0.6per 100,000 |
| 108 | Slovakia | 0.6per 100,000 |
| 109 | Spain | 0.6per 100,000 |
| 110 | Austria | 0.6per 100,000 |
| 111 | People's Republic of China | 0.5per 100,000 |
| 112 | Italy | 0.5per 100,000 |
| 113 | Norway | 0.5per 100,000 |
| 114 | Slovenia | 0.5per 100,000 |
| 115 | Switzerland | 0.5per 100,000 |
| 116 | Indonesia | 0.4per 100,000 |
| 117 | Japan | 0.2per 100,000 |
| 118 | Singapore | 0.2per 100,000 |
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Data Source
This data comes from UNODC (via Our World in Data) (2021).
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