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Japan vs Kuwait: Homicide rate

Japan
0.2292 homicides per 100,000 population
in 2023
Kuwait
0.25 homicides per 100,000 population
in 2020
Japan rank
168th
Kuwait rank
167th

Homicide rate over time

  • Japan
  • Kuwait
00.511.522.5199020062023

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 0.25 homicides per 100,000 population against 0.2292 homicides per 100,000 population in Japan, a difference of 0.0208 homicides per 100,000 population.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 17 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Kuwait ahead.

Japan ranks 168th and Kuwait ranks 167th of 179 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Homicide rate
Unit
homicides per 100,000 population
Source
UN, World Population Prospects (2024); United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
179 places, 4,154 data points, 1990–2024
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