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UNODC. 2013 ‘Homicide in 207 Countries - Suriname.’ Global Study on Homicide 2011: Trends, Context, Data; Statistical Annex (with online datasets). Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 26 June
Relevant contents
Homicide in Suriname
Year: Homicides - HomRate - Gun% - GunHom - GunRate (Source)
2011: nr
2010: nr
2009: 24 - 4.6 - nr - nr - nr (OAS)
2008: 43 - 8.3 - nr - nr - nr (OAS)
2007: 45 - 8.8 - nr - nr - nr (OAS)
2006: 69 or 62 - 13.7 or 12.3 - nr - nr - nr (CTS or OAS - CTS or OAS)
2005: 69 - 13.8 or 2.2 - nr - nr - nr (OAS - OAS or PAHO)
2004: 46 - 9.3 or 1.6 - nr - nr - nr (OAS - OAS or PAHO)
2003: 60 - 12.3 or 4.1 - nr - nr - nr (OAS - OAS or PAHO)
2002: 57 - 11.9 or 3.1 - nr - nr - nr (OAS - OAS or PAHO)
2001: 79 - 16.7 or 4.9 - nr - nr - nr (OAS - OAS or PAHO)
2000: 68 - 4.6 or 4.6 - nr - nr - nr (OAS - OAS or PAHO)
1999: nr - 6.9 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO)
1998: nr - 8.4 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO)
1997: nr - 4.7 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO)
1996: nr - 3.3 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO)
1995: nr - 4.8 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO)
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
[OAS = Organisation of American States - Observatory on Citizen Security. Number of offences of intentional homicide recorded by the police; PAHO = Pan American Health Organisation's Core Health Data System; CTS = United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (CTS)]
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