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UNODC. 2013 ‘Homicide in 207 Countries - Bulgaria.’ 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 Bulgaria
Year: Homicides - HomRate - Gun% - GunHom - GunRate (Source)
2011: 128 - 1.7 (CTS/Eurostat)
2010: 147 - 2.0 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat)
2009: 150 - 2.0 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat)
2008: 172 - 2.3 or 1.4 - 29.7 - 51 - 0.7 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2007: 177 - 2.3 or 1.6 - 32.0 - 54 - 0.7 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2006: 186 - 2.4 or 1.6 - 24.0 - 44 - 0.6 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2005: 199 - 2.6 or 2.1 - 21.9 - 43 - 0.6 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2004: 244 - 3.1 or 2.6 - 18.8 - 45 - 0.6 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2003: 247 - 3.2 or 2.4 - 20.6 - 51 - 0.7 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2002: 255 - 3.2 or 2.7 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA)
2001: 308 - 3.9 or 3.0 - nr - nr - nr (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA)
2000: 332 - 4.1 or 3.3 - 19.0 - 63 - 0.8 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
1999: 327 - 4.1 or 2.7 - 20.8 - 68 - 0.8 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
1998: 381 - 4.7 or 3.5 - 14.2 - 54 - 0.7 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
1997: 398 - 4.9 or 4.3 - 27.6 - 110 - 1.3 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
1996: 438 - 5.3 or 4.9 - 24.0 - 105 - 1.3 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
1995: 494 - 5.9 or 4.6 - 21.7 - 107 - 1.3 (CTS/Eurostat - CTS/Eurostat or WHO-HFA - CTS - CTS - CTS)
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
[WHO-HFA = World Health Organisation European Health For All database; CTS = United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems; 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