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UNODC. 2013 ‘Homicide in 207 Countries - Iceland.’ 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 Iceland
Year: Homicides - HomRate - Gun% - GunHom - GunRate (Source)
2011: 3 - 0.9 (Eurostat/CTS)
2010: 2 - 0.6 - nr - nr - nr (Eurostat/CTS)
2009: 1 - 0.3 or 0.4 - 0.0 - 0 - 0.0 (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2008: 0 - 0.0 or 2.4 - 0.0 - 0 - 0.0 (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2007: 2 - 0.7 - 0.0 - 0 - 0.0 (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS and WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2006: 0 - 0.0 or 0.4 - 0.0 - 0 - 0.0 (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2005: 3 - 1.0 or 1.2 - 0.0 - 0 - 0.0 (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2004: 3 - 1.0 or 1.5 - 0.0 - 0 - 0.0 (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS or WHO-FHA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2003: 0 - 0.0 - 0.0 - 0 - 0.0 (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2002: 4 - 1.4 or 1.6 - nr - nr - nr (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS or WHO-FHA)
2001: 1 - 0.4 or 0.8 - nr - nr - nr (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS or WHO-FHA)
2000: 5 - 1.8 or 1.9 - nr - nr - nr (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS or WHO-HFA)
1999: 2 - 0.7 or 0.4 - nr - nr - nr (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS or WHO-HFA)
1998: 0 - 0.0 - nr - nr - nr (Eurostat/CTS)
1997: 2 - 0.7 or 1.2 - nr - nr - nr (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS or WHO-HFA)
1996: 1 - 0.4 or 0.7 - nr - nr - nr (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS or WHO-HFA)
1995: 0 - 0.0 - nr - nr - nr (Eurostat/CTS - Eurostat/CTS and 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)
Last accessed at:
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/homicide.html