Homicide victim demographics There was a total of 16,425 reported homicide cases in the U.S. in 2019. When looking at murder victims by gender and ethnicity, the vast majority were male, while just over half of victims were African American. Geographically the rate of murders varied significantly between states.

Religion may fill the human need for finding meaning, sparing us from existential angst while also supporting social organization, researchers say. Religion has survived, they surmise, because it helped us form increasingly larger social groups, held together by common beliefs.

The causes of crime are complex. Poverty, parental neglect, low self-esteem, alcohol and drug abuse can be connected to why people break the law. Some are at greater risk of becoming offenders because of the circumstances into which they are born.

This means that the increase in the global population has been higher than the increase in the overall number of homicide victims recorded worldwide. The overall number of people killed in homicides increased from 362,000 in 1990 to 464,000 in 2017. Source: Estimates based on UNODC homicide statistics.

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With 52 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, El Salvador had the most murders per 100,000 inhabitants worldwide in 2018. The second most murder cases occurred in Jamaica that year, followed by Lesotho, and Angola.