Report No. 35
Appendix XLI
Abolitionist and Retentionist Countries, and Rates of Homicide, 1962 (Alphabetically Arranged)
Abolitionist and retentionist1 countries, and homicide rates 1962
(Note.-Abolitionist countries whose rates for 1962 were higher than India are underlined)
Note.- (i) The rates are the number of deaths per 1,00,000 of the population, and taken from U.N. Demographic Year Book, 1962, and are subject to the observations made in the U.N. Publication.2 They include deaths from war as well as deaths from homicide.
Note.- (2) The rates are, in most cases, for the year 1960, or 1961.
Homicide rates in various countries
Explanations of symbols
A.- Abolitionist De Jure
A.-Abolitionist De facto
A.-Almost completely abolitionist
R-Retentionis
Abolitionist and Retentionist countries
|
Rate |
|
Afghanistan |
R |
|
Arab Republic |
See U.A.R. |
|
Argentina (1922) (includes accidents, suicides also) |
A J |
46.1 |
Australia (except two States) |
R |
1.5 |
Australia (Queensland) |
AJ |
|
Australia (New South Wales) |
AC |
|
Austria (1945) except in the event of proclamation of a state of emergency |
A J |
1.1 |
Belgium (1867) |
A F |
0.7 |
Brazil (1889) |
A J |
10.8 |
Burma |
R |
1.5 |
Cambodia |
R |
|
Canada |
R |
1.2 |
Central African Republic |
R |
|
Ceylon |
R |
3.3 |
Chile |
R |
4.0 |
China (Taiwan) |
R |
0.7 |
Colombia (1910) |
A J |
36.4 |
Costa Rica (1882) |
A J |
3.0 |
Cuba |
R |
|
Czechoslovakia |
R |
58.5 |
Dahomey |
R |
|
Denmark (1930) |
A J |
0.5 |
Dominican Republic (1924) |
A J |
2.1 |
Ecuador (1897) (includes accidents, suicides also) |
A J |
65.9 |
El Salvador |
R |
|
Federal Republic of Germany |
See 'Germany' |
|
Finland (1949) |
A J |
2.5 |
France |
R |
2.3 |
Gambia |
R |
|
Germany (Federal Republic) (1949) |
AJ |
1.2 |
Ghana |
R |
|
Gibraltar |
R |
|
Greece |
R |
1.5 |
Greenland (1954) |
AJ |
|
Guatemala |
R |
11.0 |
Hong Kong |
R |
0.9 |
Iceland (1940) |
A J |
0.6 |
India |
R |
2.6 (Based on 'Crime in India', 1962) |
Indonesia |
R |
|
Iran |
R |
|
Iraq |
R |
|
Ireland |
R |
0.2 |
Italy (1944) |
AJ |
1.5 |
Ivory Coast |
R |
|
Japan |
R |
1.7 |
Laos |
R |
|
Lebanon |
R |
|
Liberia |
R |
|
Liechtenstein (1798) |
A F |
|
Luxembourg |
A F |
0.9 |
Malaya |
R |
|
Mauritius |
R |
0.9 |
Mexico |
R |
33.2 |
Mexico |
A J |
|
Morocco |
R |
0.4 |
Netherlands (1870) |
A J |
|
Netherlands (Antilles) (1957) |
A J |
|
Netherland New Guinea |
R |
|
New Zealand |
AC |
1.1 |
Nicaragua |
AC |
21.9 |
Nigeria |
R |
3.3 (Nigeria Re-Union) |
Northern Rhodesia |
R |
|
Norway (1905) |
AJ |
0.4 |
Nyasaland |
R |
|
Pakistan |
R |
|
Philippines |
R |
2.1 |
Poland |
R |
1.4 |
Portugal (1867) |
AJ |
1.4 |
San Marino (1865) |
AJ |
|
Senegal |
R |
|
Seychelles |
R |
|
Somalia (Northern) |
R |
|
Somalia (Central and Southern) |
R |
|
South Africa |
R |
|
Spain |
R |
0.8 |
Sudan |
R |
|
Surinam |
R |
|
Sweden (1921) |
AJ |
0.6 |
Switzerland (1937) |
AJ |
0.6 |
Tanganyika |
R |
|
Thailand |
R |
|
Togo |
R |
|
Turkey |
R |
|
United Arab Republic |
R |
3.1 |
United Kingdom |
R |
7.0 |
United Kingdom-England & Wales. |
||
United Kingdom-Northern Ireland. |
||
United States of America |
A J |
4.7 |
United States of America |
AC |
|
United States of America |
R |
|
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
R |
|
Uruguay (1907) |
A J |
4.5 |
Vatican City State |
A F |
1 |
Venezuela (1863) |
AJ |
|
Vietnam |
R |
|
Western Pacific Islands |
R |
|
Yugoslavia |
R |
|
Zanzibar |
R |
1. Rates are compiled from figures given in U.N. Publication-Demographic Year Book, (1962), pp. 554-572.
2. U. N. Demographic Year Book, (1962), pp. 554-572.
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