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Crime > Violent crime Stats: compare key data on Brazil & South Africa

Definitions

  • Gun crime > Guns per 100 residents: Number of privately owned small firearms per 100 residents.
  • Intentional homicide rate: Homicides per 100’000 residents. Homicide is the death of a person purposefully inflicted by another person (it excludes suicides) outside of a state of war. Homicide is a broader category than murder, as it also includes manslaughter. The exact legal definition varies across countries, some of which include infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and deaths caused by dangerous driving.
  • Murder rate: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.
  • Murder rate per million people: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Murders: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.
  • Murders per million people: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
STAT Brazil South Africa HISTORY
Gun crime > Guns per 100 residents 8
Ranked 72nd.
12.7
Ranked 48th. 59% more than Brazil
Intentional homicide rate 27
Ranked 12th.
31
Ranked 4th. 15% more than Brazil

Murder rate 40,974
Ranked 1st. 3 times more than South Africa
15,940
Ranked 3rd.

Murder rate per million people 209.9
Ranked 19th.
318.86
Ranked 11th. 52% more than Brazil

Murders 40,974
Ranked 1st. 3 times more than South Africa
15,940
Ranked 3rd.

Murders per million people 209.9
Ranked 19th.
318.86
Ranked 11th. 52% more than Brazil

SOURCES: Annexe I of the Small Arms Survey 2007 ; Wikipedia: List of countries by intentional homicide rate by decade; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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