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UNODC. 2013 ‘Homicide in 207 Countries - Egypt.’ 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 Egypt
Year: Homicides - HomRate - Gun% - GunHom - GunRate (Source)
2011: 2,703 - 3.3 (CTS)
2010: 1,839 - 2.3 - nr - nr - nr (CTS)
2009: 912 - 1.1 - 69.1 - 453 - 0.6 (CTS)
2008: 967 - 1.2 or 0.2 - 76.2 - 523 - 0.7 (CTS - CTS or WHO-MDB - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2007: 680 - 0.9 or 0.2 - 64.5 - 321 - 0.4 (CTS - CTS or WHO-MDB - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2006: 549 - 0.7 or 0.2 - 60.0 - 264 - 0.3 (CTS - CTS or WHO-MDB - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2005: 522 - 0.7 or 0.2 - 59.1 - 215 - 0.3 (CTS - CTS or WHO-MDB - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2004: 322 - 0.4 or 0.2 - 45.0 - 99 - 0.1 (CTS - CTS or WHO-MDB - CTS - CTS - CTS)
2003: 471 - 0.7 - 65.6 - 219 - 0.3 (CTS)
2002: nr
2001: nr
2000: nr - 0.1 - nr - nr - nr (WHO-MDB)
1999: nr
1998: nr
1997: nr
1996: nr
1995: nr
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-MDB = World Health Organization Mortality Database]
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