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UNODC. 2013 ‘Homicide in 207 Countries - Belgium.’ 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 Belgium

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

2011: 198 - 1.8 - nr - nr - nr (CTS)
2010: 186 - 1.7 - nr - nr - nr (CTS)
2009: 186 - 1.7 - nr - nr - nr (CTS)
2008: 202 - 1.9 - nr - nr - nr (CTS)
2007: 211 - 2.0 - nr - nr - nr (CTS)
2006: 221 - 2.1 - nr - nr - nr (CTS)
2005: 221 - 2.1 or 1.6 - nr - nr - nr (CTS - CTS or WHO-HFA)
2004: 268 - 2.6 or 1.7 - 39.5 - 70 - 0.7 (CTS - CTS or WHO-HFA - WHO-MDB - WHO-MDB - WHO-MDB)
2003: 230 - 2.2 - nr - nr - nr (CTS)
2002: 319 - 3.1 - nr - nr - nr (CTS)
2001: 282 - 2.8 - nr - nr - nr (CTS)
2000: 212 - 2.1 - nr - nr - nr (CTS)
1999: nr - 2.4 - nr - nr - nr (WHO-HFA)
1998: nr - 1.9 - nr - nr - nr (WHO-HFA)
1997: 145 - 1.4 or 1.8 - nr - nr - nr (CTS - CTS or WHO-HFA)
1996: 120 - 1.2 or 2.0 - nr - nr - nr (CTS - CTS or WHO-HFA)
1995: 142 - 1.4 or 1.6 - 37.3 - 59 - 0.6 (CTS - CTS or WHO-HFA - WHO-MDB - WHO-MDB - WHO-MDB)

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; WHO-MDB = World Health Organisation Mortality Database]

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: Q6215

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