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Which EU countries have the highest intentional homicide rates per 100,000 people?

Unedited Atlas answer from October 5, 202635sgpt-6.1-sol

Latvia and Lithuania had the highest intentional homicide rates among EU countries reporting 2024 data, at 2.77 and 2.63 victims per 100,000 people, respectively. The latest Eurostat ranking is:

  1. Latvia: 2.77
  2. Lithuania: 2.63
  3. Estonia: 1.75
  4. Cyprus: 1.35
  5. France: 1.28

The chart shows the wider EU comparison. These are homicide victims, both sexes combined, rather than suspects or convictions. Belgium, Finland and Portugal lack 2024 observations in this dataset, so the ranking covers the 24 EU countries with available data—not all 27. The dataset was updated on April 29, 2026.

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Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 people — EU countries, 2024
Data quality
1 sources0 without source quality1 caveatsreproducibility recorded
Note: caveats (1)
  • ·No data for: BE, FI, PT.
1 source
1 official · 1 open
  1. [1] Eurostat — Intentional homicide and sexual offences by legal status and sex of the person involved (crim_hom_soff)source
    European Commissionofficialattributionconfidence high·crim_hom_soff·CC-BY 4.0·retrieved Oct 05, 2026·published Apr 29, 2026
    scope: geo: country, NUTS1, NUTS2, NUTS3Update frequency is unknown or not recorded in a machine-readable form.
⚙︎Method, query log & reproducibility
Method: Eurostat REST JSON-stat, one multi-geography request
{
  "dataset": "crim_hom_soff",
  "geo": [
    "AT",
    "BE",
    "BG",
    "HR",
    "CY",
    "CZ",
    "DK",
    "EE",
    "FI",
    "FR",
    "DE",
    "EL",
    "HU",
    "IE",
    "IT",
    "LV",
    "LT",
    "LU",
    "MT",
    "NL",
    "PL",
    "PT",
    "RO",
    "SK",
    "SI",
    "ES",
    "SE"
  ],
  "filters": {
    "freq": "A",
    "iccs": "ICCS0101",
    "leg_stat": "PER_VICT",
    "sex": "T",
    "unit": "P_HTHAB"
  },
  "since": "2024",
  "until": "2024"
}
  1. Validate filter codes against the dataset codelist.
  2. Fetch all requested geographies in one Eurostat request.
  3. Fix every non-geo/time dimension to one code; no imputation.

How Atlas got here

  • web_search
  • eurostat_compare

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