Homicide Rates In European Countries Vs American States

Map created by reddit user SebRLuckThe map above compares the Homicide (Murder) Rate in various European countries to American states in 2020 per 100,000 people.

The data for Europe comes from Eurostat, which the UK stopped contributing to in 2019 (why it’s not included).

However, if the UK were included it would be 0.85 (e.g. less than one murder per 100,000 people).

The data for the US comes from the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

Liechtenstein (pop 40,015) in particular is a funny one to look at. In 2020, it had 1 murder, which meant it’s rate per 100k people was 2.5, however since 2020 it hasn’t had any so would rank at the bottom.

Now 2020 was a bit of an odd year so I’ve managed to find the data for 2021 and 2022 below:

Country/State	2020	2021	2022
Liechtenstein	2.58	0	0
Switzerland	0.55	0.48	0.48
Italy	0.48	0.51	0.55
Norway	0.58	0.54	0.55
Slovenia	0.52	0.43	0.62
Spain	0.63	0.61	0.69
Poland	0.69	0.7	0.69
Austria	0.61	0.66	0.72
Portugal	0.79	0.8	0.72
Germany	0.86	0.76	0.74
Czechia	0.53	0.43	0.75
Greece	0.68	0.83	0.76
Slovakia	1.15	1.01	0.77
Cyprus	1.69	1.56	0.77
Croatia	0.99	0.82	0.8
Netherlands	0.7	0.72	0.81
Ireland	0.64	0.46	0.87
Hungary	0.79	0.69	0.88
Romania	1.32	0.99	0.91
North Macedonia	0.48	0.63	0.98
Denmark	0.88	0.72	1
Serbia	1.1	1.06	1.03
Iceland	0.82	0.54	1.06
Bulgaria	0.96	1.29	1.11
Sweden	1.2	1.09	1.11
Montenegro	2.57	2.26	1.13
France	1.03	1.08	1.21
Estonia	2.78	1.43	1.35
Luxembourg	0.32	0.47	1.39
Rhode Island	3	3.4	1.5
Finland	1.72	1.7	1.5
Albania	1.83	2.16	1.5
Malta	1.17	0.39	1.54
Belgium	1.3	1.33	1.54
Iowa	3.5	2.3	1.7
New Hampshire	0.9	0.9	1.8
Utah	3.1	2.8	2
Massachusetts	2.3	1.9	2.1
Hawaii	2.9	1.6	2.1
Maine	1.6	1.5	2.2
Lithuania	3.54	2.5	2.21
Türkiye	2.36	2.35	2.46
Wyoming	3.1	3.1	2.6
Idaho	2.2	2.3	2.7
New Jersey	3.7	4.1	3.1
Minnesota	3.4	3.6	3.2
Nebraska	3.6	2.9	3.2
Vermont	2.2	1.4	3.4
North Dakota	4.2	1.8	3.5
Connecticut	3.9	4.3	3.8
New York	4.2	4.4	4
Latvia	4.88	5.18	4.05
South Dakota	4.5	3	4.3
Oregon	2.9	4.8	4.5
Montana	5	3.3	4.5
West Virginia	6.6	6	4.6
Kansas	3.4	4.8	4.6
Delaware	7.4	9.7	4.8
Florida	5.9	4.3	5
Washington	3.9	4.3	5
Wisconsin	5.3	5.6	5.3
California	5.6	6	5.7
Ohio	7	7.5	6.1
Indiana	7.5	7.2	6.2
United States	6.5	6.8	6.3
Colorado	5.1	6.2	6.4
Texas	6.6	7.1	6.7
Oklahoma	7.4	7.6	6.7
Nevada	5.7	7.6	6.8
Arizona	6.9	6.7	6.8
Kentucky	7.2	8.3	6.8
Michigan	7.6	7.6	6.9
Virginia	6.1	6.6	7.3
Illinois	9.1	9.1	7.8
Mississippi	10.6	9.3	7.8
Pennsylvania	7.9	8.4	7.9
North Carolina	8	9.4	8.1
Georgia	8.8	7.9	8.2
Maryland	9.1	11	8.5
Tennessee	9.6	10.2	8.6
Alaska	6.7	6.1	9.5
Missouri	11.8	10.2	10.1
Arkansas	10.6	11	10.2
Alabama	9.6	9.4	10.9
South Carolina	10.5	11.4	11.2
New Mexico	7.8	12.9	12
Louisiana	15.8	19.6	16.1
District of Columbia	28.2	41	29.3