West Bank and Gaza - Homicide rate

Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female)

The value for Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female) in West Bank and Gaza was 0.125 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 8 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.480 in 2010 and a minimum value of 0.125 in 2018.

Definition: Intentional homicides, female are estimates of unlawful female homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.

Source: UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.

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Year Value
2010 0.480
2011 0.153
2012 0.191
2015 0.314
2017 0.214
2018 0.125

Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male)

The value for Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male) in West Bank and Gaza was 0.65 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 8 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2.05 in 2015 and a minimum value of 0.65 in 2018.

Definition: Intentional homicides, male are estimates of unlawful male homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.

Source: UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.

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Year Value
2010 1.09
2011 0.99
2012 1.02
2015 2.05
2017 1.20
2018 0.65

Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people)

The value for Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people) in West Bank and Gaza was 0.49 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4.38 in 1996 and a minimum value of 0.41 in 2016.

Definition: Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.

Source: UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.

See also:

Year Value
1995 1.18
1996 4.38
1997 1.57
1998 1.50
1999 1.73
2000 1.30
2001 1.69
2002 2.51
2003 2.73
2004 2.74
2005 2.32
2008 1.22
2009 1.11
2010 0.79
2011 0.58
2012 0.61
2013 0.55
2014 0.54
2015 1.19
2016 0.41
2017 0.72
2018 0.49

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility