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Crime > Violent crime Stats: compare key data on North Korea & United States

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STAT North Korea United States HISTORY
Gun crime > Guns per 100 residents 0.6
Ranked 156th.
88.8
Ranked 1st. 148 times more than North Korea
Murder rate 3,658
Ranked 29th.
12,996
Ranked 9th. 4 times more than North Korea

Murder rate per million people 150.88
Ranked 45th. 4 times more than United States
42.01
Ranked 43th.

Murders 3,658
Ranked 29th.
12,996
Ranked 9th. 4 times more than North Korea

Murders per million people 150.88
Ranked 45th. 4 times more than United States
42.01
Ranked 43th.

SOURCES: Annexe I of the Small Arms Survey 2007 ; 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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