Countries with the Lowest Murder Rate

What does "rate" mean? Perhaps you could specify that in the instructions?

What is meant by rate? Like is it per 100 people, 1000 people, or 10000 people? Please specify it

Rate = Murders / 100,000

Liechtenstein should be included at 0.66 (if its blank years are counted as zero-murder years, as they were for San Marino and Iceland).

no bhutan ?

If you included two more years, Vatican would've been way off this list.

Four Muslim countries on this list! Take that in, Islamophobes!

Far more non Muslim countries though hey, take that in, ridiculous statement makers.

Three countries with the letter "w" in on this list! Take that in, w-phobes!

now 4

Also pokes some holes in the theory that harsh punishments do not work as a deterrent.

hirsute: Saudi Arabia has an extremely low crime rate, beating out places like Canada, Kuwait, and Belgium. As do other similar countries the UAE, Bahrain, and Qatar, which are the ones we're actually talking about. Try to focus. Part of the reason for this is that people in those countries are afraid. Everyone knows that there are harsh punishments, and police presence is felt almost everywhere. It's not the only reason but it's a big part of it. I've actually lived in these places before. Have you?
Saudi Arabia's crime rate is very very low but it's still a big country. It's not just about punishment but also policing. The other Gulf states that make the above list have even lower crime rates because they are smaller and easier to control. Iraq, Pakistan and Egypt are huge, populous countries that in many places are pretty lawless. It's downright silly to try and make a comparison between them and the smaller, more prosperous police states of the Gulf.

But if you were going to, Iran, Egypt, Kurdistan, Syria, and Kuwait all have much lower intentional homicide rates than places like Estonia, Martinique, Greenland or the United States.

Out of interest what are the rates for USA, Canada and Australia? Link won't load for me for some reason.

If Australia was 0.94 it should be on the list.

This difference will have no appreciable effect on your life whatsoever. The odds that it would are similar to the odds of winning the lottery.

@kal, this isn't true. Murders affect far more people than the one who was murdered. Not just family, friends, etc. but probably everyone in the surrounding area, and the difference will almost certainly be noticeable if you happen to be a police officer, someone involved in criminal justice, a forensic anthropologist, or a variety of other professions. The chances probably are that you will never be significantly and demonstrably affected by a higher murder rate. But the chances that you will be are far greater than winning the lottery (assuming you mean the jackpot, winning a small prize at some point is quite likely if you play enough).

I didn't say that they were exactly the same. I said similar. Very very small. AND... I was speaking to the difference in murder rate between the USA and the UK. (which, if you are not a drug dealer or in a gang in the United States, is actually all but non-existent).

I could split hairs even further and say I was not talking about any specific lottery (some drawings are not that contested and I didn't actually say the jackpot), but the point is that it's stupid to be happy that you're living in the UK vs the USA if the reason for that happiness is the difference in murder rates. This will not affect your life.

Absence of Canada surprised me a bit.

Got everything except Germany.

That one guy who murdered someone in San Marino lol

A sunny place for shady people.

One wonders where Norway would be on this list, minus the actions of Anders Breivik. It's also interesting that the whole nordic noir movement has taken off in recent years, and is so popular internationally, and yet these countries have such low homicide rates. Coming soon to your TV screens, the Arab Gulf noir movement....or maybe not? Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Bhutan?

Apparently we can't read ^^

Ok, so where the heck is finland? me is gunna die

Well that was uncalled for.

Will you see more organized groups of men systematically grooming underage girls to be gang raped and then not prosecuted by police who fear that doing so would make them seem racist? Probably. But murder? Not so much. The murder rates in most Muslim countries are lower than that of Eastern Europe.

Oddly enough (or perhaps not) this list matches up with countries that have higher than average national IQ scores.

Better education is definitely correlated with both.

there is no such data available from any source that has not been almost universally panned and discredited.

I suspect you could find a correlation if there was any good data. But it is perfectly possible that there never can be good data because studies comparing nations where everyone is in a Western education system to ones where most people aren't educated are going to be biased somehow anyway.