victims per 100,000 people - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's homicide rate was 1.6 victims per 100,000 people as of January 2025. Recorded victims of homicide (murder, attempted murder and manslaughter; excluding driving causing death) per 100,000 people, from ABS Recorded Crime - Victims. Homicide is the most serious crime the ABS records; the rate is the cleanest long-run read on lethal violence in Australia. Data is sourced from ABS Recorded Crime - Victims (Cat. 4510.0) - homicide victimisation rate, per 100,000 persons and updated annually.
Recorded victims of homicide (murder, attempted murder and manslaughter; excluding driving causing death) per 100,000 people, from ABS Recorded Crime - Victims.
Homicide is the most serious crime the ABS records; the rate is the cleanest long-run read on lethal violence in Australia.
Lower is better
Source: ABS Recorded Crime - Victims (Cat. 4510.0) - homicide victimisation rate, per 100,000 persons
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Recorded Crime - Victims (Cat. 4510.0) - homicide victimisation rate, per 100,000 persons), updated annually. Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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