Eswatini - Homicide rate

Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people)

The value for Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people) in Eswatini was 11.56 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 27 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.67 in 2008 and a minimum value of 9.38 in 2013.

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 19.82
1991 20.11
1992 20.07
1993 19.60
1994 16.75
1998 16.84
1999 11.47
2000 12.73
2001 18.15
2002 13.15
2003 13.20
2004 14.23
2005 13.49
2006 12.26
2007 11.61
2008 20.67
2009 17.68
2010 19.53
2011 16.04
2012 9.64
2013 9.38
2014 10.78
2015 10.14
2016 10.41
2017 11.56

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility