From: cescript@mtu.edu (Charles Scripter)
Subject: Re: Vigilantes
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:26:16 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.221623.9319@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:

> I happen to have some data - a secondary source quoting Interpol,
> International Crime Statistics, vols 1983-84 - apparently a 1984 survey.
> 
> This has crime rates of selected countries, and shows the US as the
                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> leader in actual homicides of all listed at 7.9 per 100,000.  [Most
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Do you mean actual homicides, or normalized per 100,000?  Wrong on both
counts.  (see India for actual numbers, see others for highest per capita).
from rkba.016 (1984 data):

                 H O M I C I D E
                                  PER         ABSOLUTE
RANK  COUNTRY                     100,000     NUMBERS
====  ==========================  =======     ========
 01   Lesotho                     140.81       1,592
 02   Bahamas                      22.88          45
 03   Guyana                       22.21         610
 05   Netherlands Antilles         12.47          29
 06   Iraq                         11.94       1,243
 07   Sri Lanka                    11.92       1,597
 08   Cyprus                       11.11          71
 09   Trinidad & Tobago            10.41         113
 10   Jamaica                      10.25         205
**>11   United States                 9.60      18,155
 12   Kuwait                        9.18          78
 13   Tanzania                      8.98       1,295
 14   Kenya                         8.66       1,047
 15   Madagascar                    8.14         692
 16   Burma                         8.06       2,304
 17   Venezuela                     7.19         834
 18   Netherlands                   7.15         964
 19   Chile                         6.69         723
 20   St.Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla       6.67           4
 21   Jordan                        6.06         103
 22   Syria                         5.52         331
 23   Luxembourg                    5.25          21
 24   Mali                          5.02         251
 25   Finland                       4.88         229
 26   Malawi                        4.57         183
 27   West Germany                  4.47       2,771
 28   Monaco                        4.40           1
 29   Sierra Leone                  4.00         120
 30   Sconand                       3.82         199
 31   Libya                         3.77          85
 32   Egypt                         3.45       1,241
 33   India                         3.40      19,480
 34   Sweden                        3.36         275
 35   Austria                       3.06         229
 36   Italy                         2.95       1,643
 37   Singapore                     2.77          62
 38   Nigeria                       2.75       1,510
 39   Australia & Papua New Guinea  2.73         411
 40   France                        2.70       1,429
        .
        .
 45   England & Wales               2.24       1,102
 46   Denmark                       2.03         102
 47   Japan                         1.74       1,912
 48   New Zealand                   1.51          46


> countries include attempted homicides in their data - the interpol
> data separates it out into attempts and actual where possible.]  Data
> for 'attempts' in the US was not available from my source.
> 
> Egypt has 1.0 homicides per 100K and 1.5 attempts.  Mexico isn't listed.

Egypt has 3.45 homicides per 100K.

> Northern Ireland has 4.0 homicides and 19.8 attempts, Chile has 5.8 
> homicides and 6.3 attempts. 

Chile has 6.69/100K

> My secondary source doesn't have all the countries unfortunately, but
> there isn't any country listed that has a higher homicide rate.

Unfortunately, my source doesn't have all that you've listed...  Maybe
the two tables need to be merged.

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Charles Scripter   *   cescript@phy.mtu.edu
Dept of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931
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