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UNODC. 2013 ‘Homicide in 207 Countries - Saint Lucia.’ 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 Saint Lucia
Year: Homicides - HomRate - Gun% - GunHom - GunRate (Source)
2011: nr
2010: 44 - 25.2 - nr - nr - nr (OAS)
2009: 39 - 22.6 - nr - nr - nr (OAS)
2008: 39 - 22.9 - nr - nr - nr (OAS)
2007: 29 - 17.2 - nr - nr - nr (OAS)
2006: 43 - 25.7 - nr - nr - nr (OAS)
2005: 41 - 24.8 or 17.6 - nr - nr - nr (OAS - OAS or PAHO)
2004: 37 - 22.6 or 23.2 - nr - nr - nr (OAS - OAS or PAHO)
2003: 36 - 22.2 or 21.0 - nr - nr - nr (OAS - OAS or PAHO)
2002: 42 - 26.2 or 24.4 - nr - nr - nr (OAS - OAS or PAHO)
2001: 34 - 21.4 or 16.9 - nr - nr - nr (OAS - OAS or PAHO)
2000: 23 - 14.6 or 18.3 - nr - nr - nr (OAS - OAS or PAHO)
1999: nr - 10.6 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO)
1998: nr - 9.3 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO)
1997: nr - 8.7 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO)
1996: nr - 8.1 - nr - nr - nr (PAHO)
1995: nr - 11.0 - 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]
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