South Africa - Homicide rate

Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female)

The value for Intentional homicides, female (per 100,000 female) in South Africa was 9.10 as of 2011. As the graph below shows, over the past 5 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10.80 in 2006 and a minimum value of 9.10 in 2011.

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
2006 10.80
2007 10.50
2008 9.90
2009 10.00
2010 10.50
2011 9.10

Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male)

The value for Intentional homicides, male (per 100,000 male) in South Africa was 51.40 as of 2011. As the graph below shows, over the past 5 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.60 in 2006 and a minimum value of 51.40 in 2011.

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
2006 67.60
2007 64.20
2008 62.80
2009 56.60
2010 52.10
2011 51.40

Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people)

The value for Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people) in South Africa was 35.90 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.90 in 1995 and a minimum value of 29.80 in 2011.

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
1994 63.00
1995 63.90
1996 59.40
1997 56.10
1998 56.60
1999 50.20
2000 47.60
2001 46.10
2002 45.80
2003 41.60
2004 39.00
2005 38.00
2006 38.70
2007 36.90
2008 35.90
2009 32.90
2010 30.80
2011 29.80
2012 30.60
2013 31.70
2014 32.60
2015 33.80
2016 34.00
2017 35.90

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility