Korea - Homicide rate

Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female)

The value for Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female) in Korea was 0.603 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 7 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.877 in 2012 and a minimum value of 0.602 in 2017.

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
2011 0.874
2012 0.877
2013 0.725
2014 0.764
2015 0.781
2016 0.770
2017 0.602
2018 0.603

Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male)

The value for Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male) in Korea was 0.593 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 7 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.861 in 2012 and a minimum value of 0.576 in 2017.

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
2011 0.745
2012 0.861
2013 0.674
2014 0.726
2015 0.695
2016 0.646
2017 0.576
2018 0.593

Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people)

The value for Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people) in Korea was 0.60 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.08 in 2009 and a minimum value of 0.48 in 1990.

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.

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Year Value
1990 0.48
1991 0.50
1992 0.55
1993 0.69
1994 0.50
1995 0.50
1996 0.54
1997 0.60
1998 0.81
1999 0.82
2000 0.78
2001 0.85
2002 0.77
2003 0.80
2004 0.87
2005 0.84
2006 0.85
2007 0.88
2008 0.87
2009 1.08
2010 0.98
2011 0.81
2012 0.87
2013 0.70
2014 0.74
2015 0.74
2016 0.71
2017 0.59
2018 0.60

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility