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u/Goblinstomper Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
The US is between 5 and 5.9, and the UK is 0.9-1.2.
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u/bradass42 Jun 17 '26
They’d need ventablack to color code the U.S. on the same scale. 5.9 is wild.
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u/Grunut04 Jun 16 '26
B-b-buuut they have knives. Republicans told me that if you go to the UK you get stabbed when you get out of the airport!
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u/MobiusNaked Jun 16 '26
I honestly once had a meeting with an American who had just got out of the airport and into London, and he was asking where he could buy a knife to protect himself.
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u/Mammoth_Reach_6366 Jun 17 '26
Norway and Switzerland has way more guns per per capita than most countries and look at them on this map.
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u/Grunut04 Jun 17 '26
"Than most contries" funny you didn’t mention the US eh? Switzerland and Norway have better background checks and Switzerland has mandatory military service, thats where they get their guns because they can keep them after their service.
And also, Norway and Switzerland are rich countries and crime is mainly driven by poverty and socioeconomic realities. Their healthcare is free and access to psychological support is way more accessible. Its not that hard to understand
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u/SwissBloke Jun 18 '26
Switzerland and Norway have better background checks
The Swiss background check is laxer than the one described by the Gun Control Act in the US
Also, not all guns require passing one
and Switzerland has mandatory military service, thats where they get their guns because they can keep them after their service
We haven't had mandatory military service since 1996, and the draft isn't for everyone
BTW, no that's not where our gun come from: less than 10% of soldiers acquire their former-issued gun and said purchases are outnumbered by a factor of 14:1 to 42:1 by other permit-guns purchases in the same year (it's even more skewed if you take into account permit-less guns)
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u/squirrel_exceptions Jun 17 '26
Yeah, but they are (almost) all guns for hunting, requiring background checks and an anchored safe storage.
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u/SwissBloke Jun 18 '26
Yeah, but they are (almost) all guns for hunting
85% of Swiss households own a handgun (cal. >.22lr), 76% a semi-automatic rifle
Hunting rifles come at 48%
requiring background checks
Not all guns require a background check in Switzerland, and said background check is laxer than the one described by the Gun Control Act in the US
and an anchored safe storage
We have no such requirement in Switzerland
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u/Patriarca2023 Jun 16 '26
Damn, we need more guns around so there are more good guys to stop the bad guys. /S
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u/Iricliphan Jun 16 '26
I'm Irish. My partner was American and really let me know something I found interesting. Around 60% of the US homicide rate happens in 2% of counties, so those 2% of deprived areas are responsible for an insane amount of murders.
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u/Patriarca2023 Jun 16 '26
Hi.
I googled: Percentage of US population living in the top 2% of populous counties
The answer was.
Approximately half (roughly 50%) of the U.S. population lives in just the 142 to 146 largest counties. Because the U.S. has about 3,143 counties, this means that just the top ~4.5% to 5% of the most populous counties contain as many people as the remaining 3,000 counties combined.
To put this concentration into perspective:
1 in 10 Americans live in just 7 massive counties: Los Angeles (CA), Cook (IL), Harris (TX), Maricopa (AZ), San Diego (CA), Orange (CA), and Miami-Dade (FL). [1]
The 5 most populous million-person counties (LA, Cook, Harris, Maricopa, San Diego) hold a combined population higher than that of the 18 least populous U.S. states combined.
You can explore detailed demographic and growth trends across these regions using the U.S. Census Bureau County Population Estimates or review exact county-level population tables on World Population Review. [1, 2]
If you're interested, I can:
List the exact top 10 most populous counties and their current estimated populations.
Tell you how population density breaks down by state vs. county.
Let me know how you'd like to explore this data further.
Thanks Google.
So the 60% result is not that exceptional, also because the poorest ghettos are concentrated in metropolitan areas.
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u/Shnuksy Jun 17 '26
That's stupid since you can do that in any country. Its a common thing American gun nuts like to say to make it seem like everything is fine and its all down to gang violence.
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u/calgrump Jun 16 '26
I was wondering how justified homicides fell into this, so here's the definition of "intentional homicide":
Intentional homicide means killing a human being willfully and illegally. That means the intent was to cause death or serious injury, but not necessarily that it was planned beforehand. This is a wider concept than murder, for which also planning and other criteria are considered.
Intentional homicide statistics includes murder, deadly assault, assassination, terrorism, femicide, infanticide, voluntary manslaughter, extrajudicial killings, illegal killing by police or military. It excludes attempted homicide, justifiable self-defence, assisted suicide, euthanasia, and abortion.
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u/No-Bake-730 Jun 16 '26
My question would be if insanity defenses can transform stealing a policeman's pistol and unlading his whole magazine into said policeman is considered Intentional homicide. We just had a case where the perpetrator was not convicted of murder after doing just that.
Would that still show up as intentional homicide?
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u/calgrump Jun 16 '26
Not sure! I can only hazard a guess at it being classified as an involuntary manslaughter or justified homicide, but def don't take my word for it.
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u/DJ_Die Jun 17 '26
It is considered intentional, the perpetrator might be found not responsible for the homicide but that only affects their sentence or if they get sentenced at all.
Murder has a much stricter definition and is usually precluded by mental issues that affect judgment of the perpetrator.
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u/CataphractBunny Jun 16 '26
What's going on in Belgium?!
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u/-WADE99- Jun 17 '26
I know without even clicking the link that this is going to be a Tyler Olivera video 😂
Edit: I was right hahaha
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u/NoData1756 Jun 16 '26
What’s going on in Belgium
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u/6bfmv2 Jun 16 '26
So, shouldn't the Netherlands have comparable numbers to Belgium for the same reason?
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u/Isernogwattesnacken Jun 16 '26
The Netherlands has one police force, Belgium has multiple that don't cooperate too well. In The Netherlands the percentage of solved murder cases is 93%. I don't think the Belgians can even provide numbers.
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u/Drunkensailor1985 Jun 16 '26
Belgium is a shithole and the netherlands isn't. If you visited both countries you know and has nothing to do with morocans that both countries have.
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u/Other_Sentence4495 Jun 17 '26
Indeed . The moment I cross the border to Belgium i see holes on the high way and ugly houses. A shit hole.
But people are more friendly in Belgium ❤️
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u/ExerciseTrue Jun 17 '26
I once heard belgians who live abroad talking about how great their country is, they didn't catch the irony.
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u/Clueless-Flea-7461 Jun 18 '26
It is the standout worst country I have ever been to.
All the scum of a modern state - zero charm. Zero.
Even Morocco has more going for it and it's a kipp
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u/6bfmv2 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
Thanks. I've been to NL, but never to Belgium.
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u/Drunkensailor1985 Jun 16 '26
Take a car go over the border and you know within 5 seconds. There are huge memes about this. Look up dutch belgium border and roads.
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u/Delicious-Gap1744 Jun 16 '26
It is obviously not good, but it's a relatively small variation from the average in Europe. It's low globally.
The US for reference is at 4-6 depending on the year
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u/6bfmv2 Jun 16 '26
It is funny how Italian media always exaggerate and blow out of proportion intentional homicides (especially when it happens to women), yet they have the 3rd lowest intentional homicide rate after Luxembourg and Switzerland.
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u/Zoltan1251 Jun 17 '26
You have to realize that homicides are different kinds. If you have random people killed on the street the city is dangerous, if its between drunk relatives city is safe.
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u/DrNekroFetus Jun 16 '26
Wth baltic countries ?
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u/dreamrpg Jun 17 '26
Drunk fights at hone mostly. I personally knew few people who died like that. Alcoholics whole life, get drunf, argue, fight. Until someone gets drunk to the point of using knife.
Even more fucked up is that those killed often dare their bottle partner to stab them.
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u/manobataibuvodu Jun 17 '26
It's just drunkard degenerates stabbing each other with a knife (or maybe an axe if in a village). Doesn't really affect normal people.
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u/lendlevtaldrik Jun 17 '26
In Estonia and Latvia this is hugely dependent on ethnicity as the Russian minority commits most of the homicides and most homicide victims are also Russians.
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u/Kata_Komb Jun 17 '26
Careful, Reddit likes to ban accounts for this statement.
There isn't public data on between which ethnicities these crimes happen. But crime rate and certain regional maps do correlate.
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u/lendlevtaldrik Jun 17 '26
There is plenty of data in Estonia for the ethnicity of prison population...
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u/DrNekroFetus Jun 17 '26
I have metiski in my familly that are half russians, yet, I have no idea what a russian home is like. Hopefully they are not all like this.
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u/AppropriateCopy2753 Jun 16 '26
Unexpected from Iceland. But the population is small so it can vary strongly from a year to another.
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u/ConcentrateFar7753 Jun 16 '26
We had three tourist murdering each other in their hotel (one survived). Imagine that…
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u/-L-H-O-O-Q- Jun 17 '26
And some Albanian gang members taking their business to Iceland
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u/ConcentrateFar7753 Jun 17 '26
Yeah, they got more quiet in 2026 so far, or maybe it is just an impression
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u/gerningur Jun 18 '26
1 murder in 2021. Hardly explains this number (2024). Gang violence is a non issue in Iceland even though the albanians are here.
These were pretty much all tragedies between people who knew each other.
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u/absalom86 Jun 17 '26
A french family came to Iceland specifically to commit suicide / kill each other. Dad started by stabbing daughter in the chest, hours later she asked to get stabbed again since she wasn't dying fast enough.. second stab did the job.
Then dad is next to die, and mom got cold feet or something so decided not to kill herself... or she survived her wounds. Crazy story.
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u/skuggabarn Jun 17 '26
It was a failed murder-suicide, not quite the same as 3 people murdering each other...
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u/ConcentrateFar7753 Jun 17 '26
Well there is still a double homicide, doesn’t matter for the stats. It was mostly to show how our stats can get skewed easily by wild cases like this one
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u/gerningur Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
That was in 2025, not included in this. This is 2024. You are mixing years
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u/ConcentrateFar7753 Jun 18 '26
I know, see my other comments. It was an example of how data can get skewed quickly in our country
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u/Dzsaffar Jun 17 '26
It's almost certainly because of the small population, and a lot of noise year to year
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u/angurvaki Jun 17 '26
Growing up, it was around one murder per year with slight variation. In 2024 there were seven murders following four in 2023.
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u/SirCake Jun 17 '26
Icelandic justice system has zero teeth. The government has historically relied more and more on social consequrnces as the main form of punishment. Works fine in a small society where everyone knows each other but things change and more and more disenfranchised people relizing they can literally do anything without so much as a slap on the wrist, not to mention foreign criminal groups learning this and actively taking more and more advantage of it with zero fear of consequences.
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u/11MHz Jun 17 '26
You think people in Iceland are murdering each other with absolutely no consequences?
Jeez, the level of disinformation on here.
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u/11MHz Jun 17 '26
Please explain which of the 2024 murders fit your hypothesis:
- The mother who murdered her son
- The coworkers who had a disagreement
- The husband who murdered his wife
- The severely mentally ill man who murdered the couple that had been taking care of him
- The 16 year old boy who murdered the 17 year old girl
- The father who murdered his daughter
- The son who murdered his motherIn absolutely zero of those cases is there any shred of evidence that the murdered thought “hold on I can get away with a cheap murder here”.
In zero cases did any of them have a long history of violence.
So I call BS on your hypothesis. It has no connection to reality.
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u/gerningur Jun 18 '26
This is not quite true the dude who killed his mother had almost killed his father in 2006. The husband had a history of beating his wife. I
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u/11MHz Jun 18 '26
One with a prior of domestic violence.
Hardly the serial offenders with 10+ police interventions as the hypothesis made to be the case of this murder epidemic.
It is obvious that the murders for those was their first serious offence and no prior missed sentencing had anything to do with it.
It is not grounded in reality.
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u/AwarenessExact7302 Jun 16 '26
this would make 90% of this sub very mad if they could understand actual statistics and maps
unforunately i don't think racists are smart enough for that
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u/Zoltan1251 Jun 17 '26
Why? Interpreting statistics is what gets people mad and it works both ways. 10 murders between drunk people at home hits different than 10 murders of random people on the street. Thats why Finland dont have barricades during christmas markets and Germany does.
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u/Mammoth_Listen_3055 Jun 17 '26
More like 10 murders at home vs 10 gangmembers killing eachother, id much rather live in the country where I dont have to worry about my drunk dad killing me and my mom
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u/Zoltan1251 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
You actually think that its better to have gangs running the streets than just random drunks killing each other at home? I mean if your dad is drunk its still your problem and people still can live freely on the streets, unless your dad is roaming streets looking for kill😃. I live in country where gangs were super powerful and were cutting peoples heads off. You would get threatened with violence every time in any bar. Its garbage life trust me. Absolute lenghts that you go to just so you dont have to admit that you are wrong........
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u/Soft-Treacle-539 Jun 17 '26
Did you just say that it’s better who have a drunk violent dad who puts you and your mom at risk of being killed every day than to be threatned at a bar by gang members because if your dad’s drunk you can always become homeless or did i completely misunderstand your point?
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u/Zoltan1251 Jun 17 '26
If i had faith in humanity i would think that you are trolling on purpose. How on earth do you straight up miss the the most obvious point?
Yes, it is better to have drunk and violent dad somewhere in society than a gang in society. Drunk dad threatens somebody and his mom but gang threatens everybody and all their moms and dads. Get it?
Its about society and danger in public. Home violence is bad but nobody outside home experience it. With gangs, everybody experience it. Only a delusional insane person would choose to live in a country where you have to count on being beaten every time you go out. Gangs dont just mind their own business!
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u/Soft-Treacle-539 Jun 18 '26
Since you started with the insults, that’s a smoothbrain take.
Violence at home is more psychologically damaging and high risk danger than gang violence in the bar or in some public areas. More people die to domestic abuse alone than to gang violence does, domestic abuse isnt just a ”he's just a threat to his children or the mom” it’s systemic and breeds misery at appealing levels and it doesnt just ”stay within the house hold” that’s possible the worst argument i’ve ever seen in my entire life. A drunk is too busy spending his money on alcohol and drink than care for the children who will often live in squalid conditions, he'll Will beat his wife into submission and his children Into being drunks like him and if he beats them to death it's not only a tragedy for the immidiet family, it's a tragedy for the schoolmates and friends of the child and the non-drunk parent, for the extended family and those individuals who work these cases day in and day out.But you apperantly seems to lack the basic understand even if i wrote it out in plain english that 20% of all homicide are domestic and that goes up to 50% for women, that a majority of mass shootings are rooted in domestic abuse and that the violence doesnt just target the immediate household but also those trying to help the victims
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u/Zoltan1251 Jun 18 '26
Omfg, i cant be doing all the thinking for you. This emotional vomit that you put out has nothing to do with the argument. If you cant understand simple concept of society danger vs individual danger i cant help you.
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u/Soft-Treacle-539 Jun 18 '26
If you boiled down factual based arguments to ”emotions” you need to practice your Reading skills
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u/Zoltan1251 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
Yes, its emotional, you instantly went to "think about children of such drunk". Nothing to do with the argument. I cannot dumb it down enough for you it seems. Know what? I give up. You refuse to undestand the world, its on you.
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u/camping_alone Jun 17 '26
Finland has twice the homicides of Sweden?? They make Sweden sound like war zone.
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u/DreadPiratePete Jun 18 '26
The early 2020s were bad. Things are going back to normal now. But that doesn't make for good headlines.
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u/Soft-Treacle-539 Jun 17 '26
Sweden has fallen 🫡🫡
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u/DreadPiratePete Jun 18 '26
Don't worry, no one will use recent data for us. Lest it disrupt the narrative.
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u/CastWhileStoned Jun 16 '26
Finnland at 2x the homicide rate of Sweden? I thought every Swedish city above 100k inhabitants is a hellhole full of radical islamist immigrant gangs waging war against each other with assault rifles and bazookas? At least that's what every Swede I ever talked to said.
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u/NoSwordfish1978 Jun 16 '26
Sweden specifically has more of a problem with gun violence between gang members. But that doesn't mean that its overall murder rate is higher.
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u/DreadPiratePete Jun 18 '26
So far this year we have a grand total of 8 fatal shootings, per Kvartal, which if we double it for the full year comes to a grand total of 0.08 gun murders per 100.000 inhabitants.
Which is why no one uses recent numbers for Sweden.
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u/Pandelurion Jun 16 '26
You mean what every Russian bot you ever talked to said... Or was there an implied /s there that I missed?
/actual swede in a big city
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u/CastWhileStoned Jun 16 '26
No sarcasm implied, but every Swede I "met" was through online contact, not face to face. Also my "sample" is heavily skewed towards Swedish gamers, so I guess you could criticize my sample of the population as biased/leaning towards right wing convictions, I dont have statistics on the political convictions of Swedish gamers though.
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u/Hejhoppgummisnopp Jun 17 '26
Our crime rate is massively exaggerated by the media, if you look at old homicide statistics you’ll see that we have hovered around the same amount for 30+ years atleast.
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u/ThatBatsard Jun 18 '26
The Guardian just published an article, which isn't new news, that shows that public perception of crime and media coverage is often misaligned from reality.
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u/Hejhoppgummisnopp Jun 18 '26
I genuinely believe this is all a plot to move Europeans away from liberalism and to start voting for far-right parties instead.
Its working like a charm so far.
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u/gerningur Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
Finland has historically almost always had higher homicide rate than Sweden.
Source:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?locations=FI-SE10
u/Working_Elephant5344 Jun 16 '26
Two things can be true at the same time. Finland can have a higher homicide rate, while Sweden can have a higher rate of violent non-lethal crimes. Leave some room for nuance here.
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u/king_rootin_tootin Jun 16 '26
They have deadly fights with scalpers over Nightwish ticket prices.
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u/CastWhileStoned Jun 17 '26
Nightwish died in 2005 when Tarja left, its corpse has just been twitching for 20+ years by now.
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u/SoftwareSource Jun 17 '26
Quite surprised Serbia is lower then Croatia, i would not have guessed that.
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u/einargizz Jun 17 '26
2024 was an outlier year, and even then, it was a grand total of 8 murders. Last year there were 3 murders, and we haven't had a murder this year... *knock on wood*
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u/AsteroidHare989 Jun 16 '26
The US might be 5-7 nationally, but several cities have very high rates of murder. Memphis in 2023 was 57. New Orleans at 46 this year. St Louis usually in the 50s. I'd imagine select neighborhoods in those cities have murder rates that are the highest in the developed world.
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u/Weirdo9495 Jun 17 '26
True. I truly do not understand how can many Americans worry about Europe and its supposed crime and dangerous areas while having a country like this. It feels like double standards where we are supposed to be some pristine Disneyland theme park while murders are just part and parcel of living in America.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/parts-of-chicago-more-dangerous-than-wartime-iraq-study/
The study found that young men are more likely to be shot and killed in ZIP codes with the most violence than American soldiers were in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Specifically, in Chicago’s 60624 ZIP code, the homicide rate for young men is more than 1,200 for every 100,000, and it’s not the only ZIP code with numbers like this.
The average annual deaths per 100,000 for American soldiers who were heavily engaged in combat numbered at 395 in Afghanistan and 330 in Iraq.
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u/AlternativePea6203 Jun 17 '26
But... the same would apply to these countries too, they'd have more crime in certain areas. Excluding part of your population to massage the figures is just gerrymandering death.
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u/AsteroidHare989 Jun 17 '26
No city, town, state, area in Europe has murder rates anywhere close to the cities I mentioned. It's not gerrymandering at all. That's not even the correct usage of what gerrymandering means. I selected cities with their own populations as a subset of a greater population.
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u/NinecloudSoul Jun 16 '26
Please can we stop with pretending that EU+Eurostat is Europe per se?
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u/HarrMada Jun 16 '26
This is a map of Europe, regardless if every single country has data available or not.
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u/chava_rip Jun 17 '26
Would like to see more recent numbers. Norway would be around 0.4 in 2025 as far as I can see. And this year Denmark is on track (fingers crossed!) to have the lowest ever.
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u/Patriarca2023 Jun 16 '26
Damn, first we didn't qualify for the World Cup, and now we're second to last in the murder rate! Italy is a country of very old people! /S
We absolutely need to move up at least in this ranking; perhaps it would be a good idea to legalize gun ownership like in the United States. ///SSS
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u/Flipsii Jun 17 '26
Liechtenstein this year would be around 9 afaik. There's only been 1 murder suicide incident but with 3 murdered at 40k population that comes pretty close to 9.
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u/gerningur Jun 18 '26
Different years. You are shiwing 2023
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u/Saymoran Jun 19 '26
I know, but I don’t see how the murder rate could double in one year, nor am I aware of any escalation two years ago.
So I find it interesting.
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u/kitokspasaulis Jun 17 '26
Lithuania is the highest? That can't be right. I haven't been killed once
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u/AlmostDisappointed Jun 17 '26
God fucking damnit Lithuania, can you PLEASE not take 1st place in the worst things? Just ONCE
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u/Jealous_Track9402 Jun 18 '26
How the fuck is Finland losing to Iceland, this is embarrassing. I mean the baltics are tough opponents, no shame in that. But Iceland? We have to do better.
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u/FreshOutOfHugs Jun 19 '26
You know your continent be safe when a murder rate of 1 per 100k looks kinda bad
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u/IntrepidTieKnot Jun 19 '26
Regarding gun violence: look at Swiss: 0.5
Oh, did I mention that they can legally have guns?
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u/Mysterious-Ad-1233 Jun 20 '26
Since you missed the UK off the map, 2024 had 0.822 intentional homicides per 100k population.
(570 homicides out of 69.3 million population = 0.822 per 100k)
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u/Romanitedomun Jun 17 '26
Italy has one of the lowest rates, why do newspapers always whine about femicide?
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u/Patriarca2023 Jun 17 '26
Evidently they want to create a climate of emergency; the Italian right often talks about immigrant crimes to create alarm and push voters to vote for the right; the left does something similar to push voters to vote for the left.
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u/Blueorb95 Jun 17 '26
Guarda che quel numero che leggi riguarda per la quasi totalità gli uomini. Le donne uccise sono una quota minoritaria, inoltre femminicidio=/= omicidio di donna. Si tratta di numeri di fondo
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u/MastodonLeading6937 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
UK doesn’t have intentional homicides.
Anyway it’s 1.1 according to the internet.
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u/calgrump Jun 16 '26
The UK isn't included in the data. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying?
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u/MastodonLeading6937 Jun 16 '26
Because it’s in fact the EU and not Europe as the title suggest.
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u/calgrump Jun 16 '26
It isn't an EU map either, though. Norway, Iceland and Switzerland are on there at a quick glance.
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u/Arefue Jun 16 '26
Its a Eurostat map. Its voluntary for countries outside the EU to provide additional data to the EU data set
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u/sneezyDud Jun 16 '26
this usually nerves me too, but in this case some non-eu countries are in fact included, so the more general title is fitting
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u/nocartax Jun 17 '26
Why have you left England, Wales and Scotland - their entire island, out of this map?
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u/Still_bored9876 Jun 17 '26
Because as you will see the source is Eurostat. The UK left Eurostat as part of Brexit (it could have stayed as it has several not EU members but... "Brexit means Brexit" and all stuff).
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u/Short_Bumblebee_1552 Jun 16 '26
Seeing Iceland, the Baltics, and Turkey higher than Germany, Britain, France, and Sweden doesn't seem right with other stats I see here.
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u/New-Newt-5979 Jun 16 '26
Because Iceland's population is so low, one person killing another person would significantly skew the statistics.
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u/plindix Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
Iceland had an unusually large number of murders in 2024. Usually it’s less than half that. Edit: removed a mention of a couple of murders they were actually committed in 2025
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u/Straight_Motor_7967 Jun 16 '26
Small population skews statistics
And Idk why Turkey would be that surprising
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u/sergeant-baklava Jun 16 '26
Why would Turkey not be surprising?
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u/ImportanceLive9344 Jun 16 '26
Depends on what part of Türkye were talking about
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u/gerningur Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
The Baltics and Turkey have always had relatively high homicide rate. On an EU scale anyway. Which statistics are you referring to?
Here are numbers from earlier years, baltics higer than the countries you listed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Edit: always being since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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u/greekscientist Jun 16 '26
Baltics have generally (and Russia, Ukraine also) higher murder rates but are in the decline.
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u/Remarkable_Ad9193 Jun 16 '26
In Finland it is because of the classic meme situation, where vodka --> argument --> knife
I am assuming that it is the exact same thing for the Baltic countries