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Violent crime, specifically homicide, has declined in Canada by over 40% since its peak in 1975, placing Canada 79th in the world by homicide rate —far worse than Australia, England, and Ireland, and relatively close to poorer European countries.
25 lip 2024 · Compared with 2022, the Violent CSI recorded lower rates of homicide (-1 4%) and sexual violations against children (-1 0%) in 2023. The Violent CSI also recorded higher rates of extortion (+35%), robbery (+4%) and assault committed with a weapon or causing bodily harm (+7%). The CSI is one of several measures of crime in Canada.
The class of violent deaths documented in this article is intentional killing of others outside of war. Deaths occurring during situations of civil unrest are a grey area. Map of countries by their intentional homicide rate per 100,000 people.
This is a list of Canadian provinces and territories by homicide rate according to Statistics Canada. [1] Note: The rate columns can be sorted in ascending or descending order. Sort the province/territory column to return to alphabetical order.
Information presented in this chart represents data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR1) Aggregate Survey, and permits historical comparisons back to 1962. New definitions of crime categories were introduced in 2009 and are only available in the new format back to 1998.
Compared with 2021, the increase in the Violent CSI in 2022 included higher rates of robbery (+15%), extortion (+39%), homicide (+8%) and level 1 sexual assault (+3%). The Non-violent CSI—which includes, for example, property offences and drug offences—rose 4% in 2022 but was 6% lower than in 2019.
Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups.
