Countries with the Lowest Murder Rate 2023
About This Dataset
Countries with the Lowest Murder Rate 2023
The twenty countries with the lowest homicides (per 100,000 people) in 2023, from World Bank figures for the 83 countries that reported that year. Singapore records the lowest figure at 0.07, with Oman (0.14) and Japan (0.23) next. Intentional homicides per 100,000 people, taken from criminal justice or public health records. Countries count differently - some record every death investigated as a homicide, others only convictions - and several of the worst-affected countries report late or not at all.
Analysis
Singapore (0.07), Oman (0.14) and Japan (0.23) record the three lowest figures. Across the twenty shown, values run from 0.07 up to 0.80, a spread of 0.73. Oman, the next country up, records 2.00 times the figure for Singapore. 2 of the 20 sit within double the lowest figure, 0.14 or less. The chart shows the twenty lowest of 83 reporting countries, so it describes the bottom of the distribution rather than the world average. Countries recorded as zero are left out: the World Bank writes zero where a country did not report.
Source:
World Bank
Key Findings
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Singapore records the lowest in Homicides (per 100,000 People) at 0.07 in 2023.
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Average Homicides (per 100,000 People) in 2023: 1 · median: 1.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2023 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Homicides (per 100,000 People)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked lowest-first, because on this measure a lower number is the better result.
Data Sources & References
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