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UNODC. 2013 ‘Homicide in 207 Countries - Peru.’ 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 Peru
Year: Homicides - HomRate - Gun% - GunHom - GunRate (Source)
2011: nr
2010: nr
2009: 2,969 or 1,490 - 10.3 or 5.2 - 50.8 - 757 - 2.6 (CTS or SES - CTS/SES - CTS/SES - CTS/SES)
2008: 3,332 - 11.7 or 5.6 - 32.9 - 520 - 1.8 (CTS - CTS or NP/SES - CTS/SES - CTS/SES - CTS/SES)
2007: 2,943 or 845 - 10.4 or 5.7 or 3.0 - 36.8 - 586 - 2.1 (CTS or PAHO - CTS or NP/SES or PAHO - CTS/SES - CTS/SES - CTS/SES)
2006: 3,141 or 752 - 11.3 or 5.9 or 2.7 - 32.0 - 528 - 1.9 (CTS or PAHO - CTS or NP/SES or PAHO - CTS/SES - CTS/SES - CTS/SES)
2005: 3,057 or 799 - 11.1 or 5.8 or 2.9 - 38.4 - 614 - 2.2 (CTS or PAHO - CTS or NP/SES or PAHO - CTS/SES - CTS/SES - CTS/SES)
2004: 1,526 or 817 - 5.6 or 3.0 - 35.8 - 546 - 2.0 (CTS or PAHO - CTS and NP/SES or PAHO - CTS/SES - CTS/SES - CTS/SES)
2003: 781 - 4.9 or 2.9 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO - NP/SES or PAHO)
2002: 718 - 4.3 or 2.7 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO - NP/SES or PAHO)
2001: 787 - 4.9 or 3.0 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO - NP/SES or PAHO)
2000: 828 - 5.0 or 3.2 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO - NP/SES or PAHO)
1999: 662 - 5.1 or 2.6 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO - NP/SES or PAHO)
1998: 1,354 - 5.4 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO)
1997: 1,036 - 4.2 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO)
1996: 1,067 - 4.4 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO)
1995: 1,310 - 5.5 - 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
[PAHO = Pan American Health Organisation's Core Health Data System; SES = Regional System of Standardised Citizen Security and Coexistence Indicators; CTS = United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems; NP = National 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