The map above shows a rather surprising fact, the US (population: 327 million) has roughly the same number of murders as all the countries in red combined (total population: over 2.3 billion): 17,250 vs 17,324.
Here is the homicide breakdown by country:
US: 17,250
Countries in red:
- China: 8,634
- Indonesia: 1,292
- Germany: 963
- France: 875
- UK: 791
- Canada: 611
- Italy: 400
- Japan: 362
- South Korea: 356
- Spain: 294
- Poland: 256
- Romania: 247
- Australia: 227
- Belgium: 220
- Hungary: 202
- Taiwan: 192
- Lithuania: 153
- Israel: 110
- Sweden: 106
- Netherlands: 94
- Greece: 84
- Bulgaria: 81
- Finland: 78
- Latvia: 67
- Portugal: 66
- Czech Republic: 65
- Austria: 57
- Slovakia: 57
- Denmark: 56
- New Zealand: 45
- Switzerland: 45
- Croatia: 44
- Estonia: 42
- Ireland: 38
- Hong Kong: 28
- Norway: 27
- Singapore: 18
- Cyprus: 13
- Slovenia: 10
- Luxembourg: 4
- Malta: 4
- Iceland: 1
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Y.D. says
May 9, 2019 at 7:26 pmSeems that in that sense the US has more in common with Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, etc. than with the rest of the developed world. 馃檨