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UNODC. 2013 ‘Homicide in 207 Countries - Switzerland.’ Global Study on Homicide 2011: Trends, Context, Data; Statistical Annex (with online datasets). Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 26 June

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Homicide in Switzerland

Year: Homicides - HomRate - Gun% - GunHom - GunRate (Source)

2011: 46 - 0.6 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat)
2010: 52 - 0.7 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat)
2009: 51 - 0.7 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat)
2008: 54 - 0.7 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat)
2007: 51 - 0.7 or 0.6 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA)
2006: 60 - 0.8 or 0.6 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA)
2005: 75 - 1.0 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat)
2004: 78 - 1.1 or 1.0 - 72.2 - 57 - 0.8 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2003: 73 - 1.0 or 0.7 - 64.4 - 47 - 0.6 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2002: 86 - 1.2 or 0.9 - 79.1 - 68 - 0.9 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2001: 86 - 1.2 or 1.1 - 54.7 - 47 - 0.7 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2000: 69 - 1.0 or 0.8 - 58.0 - 40 - 0.6 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
1999: 89 - 1.2 or 1.1 - 80.9 - 72 - 1.0 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
1998: 76 - 1.1 or 0.9 - 86.8 - 66 - 0.9 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
1997: 87 - 1.2 or 1.4 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA)
1996: 83 - 1.2 or 1.1 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA)
1995: 82 - 1.2 or 0.9 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA)

Homicides: Count (number per annum) of homicides by all methods
HomRate: Annual rate of homicide (all methods) per 100,000 population
Gun%: Percentage of all homicides committed with a firearm
GunHom: Count (number per annum) of homicides committed with a firearm
GunRate: Annual rate of firearm homicide per 100,000 population
Source: Data source or sources cited by UNODC
OR: Alternative figures provided by different sources
NR: Not reported

[CTS = United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems; WHO-HFA = World Health Organisation European Health For All database; Eurostat = The statistical office of the European Union. Offences recorded by the police]

Data for 1995-2010 were collated from three online UNODC spreadsheets:
- Homicide level for 2010, or latest available year (Homicides_by_firearms.xls)
- Homicide data series to be used for trends analyses (Homicide_data_series.xls)
- Homicides by firearms (Homicide_level.xlsx)
And from Table 9.1 of the hard-copy UNODC 2011 report (pp. 104-113)

Latest data (26 June 2013 for Homicides and 14 September 2012 for Gun Homicides) were collated from two online UNODC spreadsheets:
- Homicide statistics 2013 (Homicide_statistics2013.xls)
- Homicides by firearms (Homicides_by_firearms.xls)

ID: Q6210

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