Costa Rica - Homicide rate
Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female)
The value for Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female) in Costa Rica was 2.34 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 27 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2.86 in 2005 and a minimum value of 1.02 in 1996.
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.
See also:
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 1.80 |
| 1991 | 1.56 |
| 1992 | 1.51 |
| 1993 | 1.15 |
| 1994 | 1.44 |
| 1995 | 1.52 |
| 1996 | 1.02 |
| 1997 | 1.05 |
| 1998 | 1.44 |
| 1999 | 1.66 |
| 2000 | 2.04 |
| 2001 | 1.41 |
| 2002 | 1.66 |
| 2003 | 1.82 |
| 2004 | 1.84 |
| 2005 | 2.86 |
| 2006 | 2.08 |
| 2007 | 1.68 |
| 2008 | 2.69 |
| 2009 | 2.62 |
| 2010 | 2.67 |
| 2011 | 2.77 |
| 2012 | 2.14 |
| 2013 | 1.52 |
| 2014 | 2.13 |
| 2015 | 1.73 |
| 2016 | 2.70 |
| 2017 | 2.34 |
Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male)
The value for Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male) in Costa Rica was 22.02 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 27 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.02 in 2017 and a minimum value of 6.65 in 1991.
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.
See also:
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 7.08 |
| 1991 | 6.65 |
| 1992 | 8.18 |
| 1993 | 8.29 |
| 1994 | 9.04 |
| 1995 | 8.82 |
| 1996 | 9.34 |
| 1997 | 10.20 |
| 1998 | 10.30 |
| 1999 | 10.91 |
| 2000 | 10.49 |
| 2001 | 11.29 |
| 2002 | 10.89 |
| 2003 | 12.56 |
| 2004 | 11.39 |
| 2005 | 12.74 |
| 2006 | 14.05 |
| 2007 | 15.04 |
| 2008 | 20.21 |
| 2009 | 20.58 |
| 2010 | 20.32 |
| 2011 | 17.67 |
| 2012 | 15.21 |
| 2013 | 15.80 |
| 2014 | 17.75 |
| 2015 | 21.23 |
| 2016 | 20.89 |
| 2017 | 22.02 |
Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people)
The value for Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people) in Costa Rica was 11.26 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 12.18 in 2017 and a minimum value of 4.12 in 1991.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 4.46 |
| 1991 | 4.12 |
| 1992 | 4.87 |
| 1993 | 4.74 |
| 1994 | 5.26 |
| 1995 | 5.19 |
| 1996 | 5.20 |
| 1997 | 5.65 |
| 1998 | 5.89 |
| 1999 | 6.31 |
| 2000 | 6.28 |
| 2001 | 6.37 |
| 2002 | 6.29 |
| 2003 | 7.20 |
| 2004 | 6.63 |
| 2005 | 7.82 |
| 2006 | 8.08 |
| 2007 | 8.38 |
| 2008 | 11.47 |
| 2009 | 11.61 |
| 2010 | 11.51 |
| 2011 | 10.23 |
| 2012 | 8.68 |
| 2013 | 8.67 |
| 2014 | 9.95 |
| 2015 | 11.49 |
| 2016 | 11.80 |
| 2017 | 12.18 |
| 2018 | 11.26 |
Classification
Topic: Public Sector Indicators
Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility
