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Global Organized Crime Index
Country scores for criminal markets, criminal actors, and resilience: an expert-assessment heatmap of organized crime.
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Intentional homicide rates
Comparable rates of intentional homicide from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, one measure of violent crime.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Our World in Data. 2019-2023.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime compiles intentional homicide statistics from criminal-justice and public-health sources. Our World in Data turns the comparable series into a map and chart. Homicide is more consistently defined than robbery or “crime” in general.
Source
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Our World in Data
Vintage: 2019-2023
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/global-study-on-homicide.html
License
UNODC statistical products are generally reusable with attribution. We host a cropped Our World in Data map export (CC BY) of UNODC homicide rates. Open their map for the current layer.
How to read it
The usual unit is intentional homicides per 100,000 people per year. High rates often cluster in specific cities or corridors, not uniformly across a country. Compare like years; recording changes.
Caveats
Under-reporting, legal definitions, and missing years differ by state. Conflict deaths are a different series (see UCDP). A thumbnail is not a “most dangerous country” list.
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Money-laundering risk
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