Which country has the highest Stabbing Deaths?

South Africa has the highest Stabbing Deaths in 2019, at 9,317, followed by Brazil (8,823) and India (7,924).

Which country has the lowest Stabbing Deaths?

Tokelau has the lowest Stabbing Deaths in 2019, at 0.01.

What is the median Stabbing Deaths across countries?

The median is 51.26 across the 204 countries with data in 2019.

Where does this stabbing deaths by country data come from?

Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Global Study on Homicide - United Nations; GBD Results Tool - Global Health Data Exchange; Intentional Homicide - United Nations.

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Stabbing Deaths by Country

Name: Stabbing Deaths by Country
Creator: Rankodex

South Africa has the highest Stabbing Deaths in 2019 (9,317), followed by Brazil (8,823) and India (7,924). Tokelau has the lowest (0.01).

Crime & Safety206 countries · 2 metricsUpdated Aug 28, 2024Original page

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Distribution Median and middle halfThe median is the middle value: half of places are above it, half below. The middle half is the range holding the central 50% of places.More in the glossary →

Each dot is one country; the lines mark the median and the middle half.

Median

51.26

Middle half 11.13 – 249

Average

401

204 countries

Lowest (best)

0.01

San Marino

Highest (worst)

9,317

South Africa

Over time · 2019–2023

The top 5 in 2019, against the median.

Median of all countries
San Marino
Tokelau
Monaco
Niue
Cook Islands

Data

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204 countries · # = rank by Stabbing Deaths

#
1	San Marino	0.01	—
1	Tokelau	0.01	0.06 per 100k
3	Monaco	0.02	—
3	Niue	0.02	0.1 per 100k
5	Cook Islands	0.05	0.03 per 100k
6	Andorra	0.09	0.02 per 100k
7	Tuvalu	0.27	0.25 per 100k
8	Palau	0.28	0.15 per 100k
9	American Samoa	0.35	0.09 per 100k
10	Grenada	0.36	0.04 per 100k
11	Bermuda	0.41	0.07 per 100k
11	Nauru	0.41	0.44 per 100k
13	Tonga	0.44	0.07 per 100k
14	Iceland	0.6	0.03 per 100k
14	Antigua and Barbuda	0.6	0.1 per 100k
16	Northern Mariana Islands	0.68	0.21 per 100k
17	Oman	0.71	0.01 per 100k
18	Vanuatu	0.82	0.04 per 100k
19	Kiribati	0.92	0.1 per 100k
20	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1	0.23 per 100k
21	Bhutan	1.07	0.03 per 100k
22	Brunei	1.14	0.07 per 100k
23	Malta	1.27	0.04 per 100k
23	Marshall Islands	1.27	0.29 per 100k
25	Luxembourg	1.43	0.03 per 100k
26	Montenegro	1.54	0.02 per 100k
27	Greenland	1.64	0.39 per 100k
28	Sao Tome and Principe	1.83	0.19 per 100k
29	Seychelles	1.89	0.23 per 100k
30	Guam	1.92	0.18 per 100k
31	Bahrain	1.94	0.05 per 100k
32	Fiji	2.22	0.03 per 100k
33	Dominica	2.54	0.42 per 100k
34	Samoa	3.02	0.21 per 100k
35	Gambia	3.14	0.02 per 100k
35	Micronesia	3.14	0.39 per 100k
37	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.28	0.01 per 100k
38	United States Virgin Islands	3.56	0.4 per 100k
39	Maldives	3.61	0.28 per 100k
40	Slovenia	3.82	0.02 per 100k
41	Cyprus	3.83	0.04 per 100k
42	North Macedonia	4.82	0.02 per 100k
43	Tunisia	6.73	0.01 per 100k
43	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6.73	0.66 per 100k
45	Ireland	8.16	0.03 per 100k
46	Singapore	8.19	0.04 per 100k
47	Saint Lucia	8.69	0.63 per 100k
48	Mauritius	9.25	0.08 per 100k
49	Kuwait	9.91	0.11 per 100k
50	Norway	10.6	0.03 per 100k
51	Denmark	11	0.02 per 100k
52	Solomon Islands	11.17	0.26 per 100k
53	United Arab Emirates	11.68	0.07 per 100k
54	New Zealand	11.73	0.03 per 100k
55	Switzerland	11.93	0.02 per 100k
56	Croatia	12.14	0.02 per 100k
57	Qatar	12.19	0.29 per 100k
58	Barbados	12.44	0.4 per 100k
59	Armenia	12.66	0.05 per 100k
60	Estonia	13.06	0.09 per 100k
61	Suriname	14.16	0.32 per 100k
62	Puerto Rico	14.2	0.05 per 100k
63	Comoros	15.66	0.32 per 100k
64	Palestine	16.58	0.11 per 100k
65	Albania	16.59	0.07 per 100k
66	Cape Verde	16.81	0.48 per 100k
67	Georgia	17.79	0.04 per 100k
68	Libya	18.43	0.05 per 100k
69	Austria	18.6	0.02 per 100k
70	Timor-Leste	19.86	0.25 per 100k
71	Slovakia	19.93	0.04 per 100k
72	Bahamas	20.83	0.69 per 100k
73	Lebanon	21.25	0.07 per 100k
74	Sierra Leone	21.78	0.03 per 100k
75	Portugal	24.63	0.02 per 100k
76	Equatorial Guinea	24.64	0.29 per 100k
77	Belize	26.37	1.35 per 100k
78	Czechia	26.5	0.02 per 100k
79	Liberia	27.84	0.08 per 100k
80	Greece	28.04	0.02 per 100k
81	Finland	28.18	0.05 per 100k
82	Morocco	29.75	0.01 per 100k
83	Djibouti	30.44	0.41 per 100k
84	Belgium	30.47	0.03 per 100k
85	Gabon	30.93	0.24 per 100k
86	Algeria	30.94	0.02 per 100k
87	Latvia	31.66	0.12 per 100k
88	Lithuania	32.35	0.08 per 100k
89	Senegal	32.82	0.04 per 100k
90	Mauritania	34.42	0.16 per 100k
91	Hungary	35.36	0.03 per 100k
92	Taiwan	35.62	0.02 per 100k
93	Sweden	36.33	0.04 per 100k
94	Burundi	36.89	0.04 per 100k
95	Serbia	37.85	0.03 per 100k
96	Moldova	40.07	0.1 per 100k
97	Bulgaria	42.69	0.03 per 100k
98	Netherlands	45.33	0.03 per 100k
99	Guyana	46.16	0.72 per 100k
100	Israel	46.48	0.1 per 100k
101	Tajikistan	46.65	0.11 per 100k
102	Guinea-Bissau	50.94	0.32 per 100k
103	Egypt	51.58	0.01 per 100k
104	Jordan	52	0.19 per 100k
105	Trinidad and Tobago	55.43	0.47 per 100k
106	Syria	57.83	0.06 per 100k
107	Bangladesh	58.13	0.01 per 100k
108	Mongolia	58.53	0.3 per 100k
109	Iran	59.7	0.02 per 100k
110	Uruguay	60.47	0.17 per 100k
111	United Kingdom	65.33	0.01 per 100k
112	Malawi	67.1	0.05 per 100k
113	Yemen	67.52	0.04 per 100k
114	Turkmenistan	68.11	0.19 per 100k
115	Azerbaijan	69.64	0.1 per 100k
116	Sudan	72.21	0.04 per 100k
117	Italy	73.91	0.01 per 100k
118	Botswana	85.88	0.48 per 100k
119	Rwanda	92	0.13 per 100k
120	Kyrgyzstan	94.33	0.29 per 100k
121	Republic of the Congo	94.39	0.24 per 100k
122	Madagascar	95.5	0.05 per 100k
123	Australia	95.73	0.06 per 100k
124	Eswatini	98.09	0.79 per 100k
125	France	101	0.02 per 100k
126	Costa Rica	108	0.45 per 100k
127	Japan	109	0.01 per 100k
128	Panama	110	0.56 per 100k
129	Ghana	117	0.05 per 100k
130	South Korea	122	0.04 per 100k
131	Togo	124	0.22 per 100k
132	Spain	127	0.03 per 100k
133	Bolivia	129	0.18 per 100k
134	Malaysia	133	0.08 per 100k
135	Romania	134	0.05 per 100k
136	Canada	139	0.05 per 100k
137	Germany	144	0.02 per 100k
138	Belarus	149	0.12 per 100k
139	Benin	157	0.17 per 100k
140	Namibia	159	0.85 per 100k
141	Guinea	160	0.14 per 100k
142	Cameroon	166	0.08 per 100k
143	Central African Republic	173	0.26 per 100k
144	Nicaragua	174	0.73 per 100k
145	Poland	176	0.04 per 100k
146	Iraq	200	0.11 per 100k
147	Saudi Arabia	201	0.15 per 100k
148	Jamaica	214	1.1 per 100k
149	Sri Lanka	225	0.17 per 100k
150	Eritrea	238	0.54 per 100k
151	Peru	242	0.13 per 100k
152	Nepal	246	0.13 per 100k
153	Niger	248	0.13 per 100k
154	Papua New Guinea	251	0.39 per 100k
155	Chad	251	0.15 per 100k
156	Paraguay	264	0.71 per 100k
157	Chile	268	0.25 per 100k
158	Cambodia	270	0.24 per 100k
159	Lesotho	271	0.96 per 100k
160	Angola	273	0.14 per 100k
161	Laos	303	0.67 per 100k
162	Mali	305	0.15 per 100k
163	North Korea	308	0.13 per 100k
164	Zambia	317	0.25 per 100k
165	Uzbekistan	352	0.2 per 100k
166	Myanmar	360	0.08 per 100k
167	Burkina Faso	379	0.19 per 100k
168	Mozambique	383	0.15 per 100k
169	El Salvador	386	0.95 per 100k
170	Zimbabwe	388	0.28 per 100k
171	Afghanistan	399	0.18 per 100k
172	Guatemala	401	0.46 per 100k
173	Cuba	428	0.39 per 100k
174	Tanzania	449	0.12 per 100k
175	Uganda	464	0.18 per 100k
176	South Sudan	475	0.47 per 100k
177	Ecuador	475	0.53 per 100k
178	Kazakhstan	480	0.36 per 100k
179	Dominican Republic	504	0.79 per 100k
180	Ivory Coast	509	0.27 per 100k
181	Turkey	569	0.11 per 100k
182	Argentina	608	0.18 per 100k
183	Kenya	652	0.23 per 100k
184	Venezuela	673	0.35 per 100k
185	Honduras	742	1.38 per 100k
186	Somalia	757	0.39 per 100k
187	Thailand	760	0.14 per 100k
188	Haiti	787	0.77 per 100k
189	DR Congo	912	0.15 per 100k
190	Ukraine	947	0.15 per 100k
191	Pakistan	976	0.07 per 100k
192	Vietnam	1,027	0.16 per 100k
193	Indonesia	1,139	0.06 per 100k
194	Ethiopia	1,452	0.26 per 100k
195	United States	1,827	0.06 per 100k
196	Nigeria	3,058	0.18 per 100k
197	Colombia	3,203	1.34 per 100k
198	Russia	4,226	0.24 per 100k
199	China	4,443	0.04 per 100k
200	Philippines	4,500	0.7 per 100k
201	Mexico	4,748	0.64 per 100k
202	India	7,924	0.08 per 100k
203	Brazil	8,823	0.64 per 100k
204	South Africa	9,317	1.81 per 100k

What correlates with Stabbing Deaths (2019)?

Pearson r against 1,368 other country metrics sharing at least 123 countries. Ranks are read by standing: a better rank counts as higher, whether rank 1 is the best place on a list or the worst. Correlation is not causation.

Higher together

Places that have a higher Stabbing Deaths tend to score higher on these (or rank better)

New HIV InfectionsHIV Rates by Country
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Cattle PopulationCattle Population by Country
r = +0.72 · very strong · n = 186
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People Living with HIVHIV Rates by Country
r = +0.69 · strong · n = 138
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Violent Gun Deaths IHMEGun Deaths by Country
r = +0.69 · strong · n = 203
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HomicidesGun Violence by Country
r = +0.69 · strong · n = 203
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Methane Emission from AgricultureMethane Emissions by Country
r = +0.69 · strong · n = 183
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Opposite directions

Places that have a higher Stabbing Deaths tend to score lower on these (or rank worse)

LP Safety & SecurityLegatum Prosperity IndexA rank: rank 1 is the best
r = −0.30 · moderate · n = 166
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Average Men's Shoe Size (US sizes)Shoe Size by Country
r = −0.30 · weak · n = 159
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US Trade BalanceUS Trade Deficit by Country
r = −0.29 · weak · n = 197
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Global FirePower IndexMilitary Strength Index by Country
r = −0.29 · weak · n = 144
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WJP RoLI Order and Security ScoreWorld Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index
r = −0.28 · weak · n = 141
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Percentile RankPolitical Stability by Country
r = −0.28 · weak · n = 200
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Quick answers

Which country has the highest Stabbing Deaths?: South Africa has the highest Stabbing Deaths in 2019, at 9,317, followed by Brazil (8,823) and India (7,924).
Which country has the lowest Stabbing Deaths?: Tokelau has the lowest Stabbing Deaths in 2019, at 0.01.
What is the median Stabbing Deaths across countries?: The median is 51.26 across the 204 countries with data in 2019.
Where does this stabbing deaths by country data come from?: Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Global Study on Homicide - United Nations; GBD Results Tool - Global Health Data Exchange; Intentional Homicide - United Nations.

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