{"id": 960077, "name": "Homicide rate per 100,000 population - Eisner and WHO Mortality Database", "unit": "homicides per 100,000 people", "createdAt": "2024-07-31T12:15:49.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-08-06T13:19:35.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1250-2023", "datasetId": 6651, "shortUnit": "", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "death_rate_per_100_000_population_eisner_who", "catalogPath": "grapher/homicide/2024-07-30/homicide_long_run_omm/homicide_long_run_omm#death_rate_per_100_000_population_eisner_who", "descriptionProcessing": "All homicide rate estimates from before 1950 are taken from: Table 4 in Eisner, M. (2014) \u201cFrom Swords to Words: Does Macro-Level Change in Self-Control Predict Long-Term Variation in Levels of Homicide?\u201d In Why Crime Rates Fall and Why They Don\u2019t, edited by Michael Tonry. Vol. 43 of Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, edited by Michael Tonry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.\n\nIn Eisner (2014) homicide rates are given for a range of years - we allocate the homicide rate at the midpoint of the given period. Our data-management and -visualization system can currently only observations that happen in a particular year (or day), therefore we can't store the time-information as presented by the original source and instead allocate the observation the midpoint of the given period.\n\nHistorical estimates of homicide rates are derived from national vital statistics and judicial archives. The older data is often fragmented and subject to a number of biases including: geographic bias, incomplete records, changing age structure, wound treatment, and the lethality of weapons.\n\nThis variable is a combination of homicide rate estimates from Eisner (2014) and the WHO Mortality Database. For the following countries we use Eisner (2014) before the given date and the WHO Mortality Database for all later datapoints:\n* 1950: France, Ireland, Netherlands\n\n* 1951: Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland\n\n* 1954: Belgium\n\n* 1990: Germany\n\nFor Corsica and Sardinia; England and Wales and Sweden and Finland all datapoints are from Eisner (2014).\n\nAll other datapoints not specified above are sourced from the WHO Mortality Database.\n", "type": "float", "dataChecksum": "8794745514623992356", "metadataChecksum": "-179442272312606680", "datasetName": "Long run homicide rates (1250-2022; Eisner, WHO, UNODC)", "datasetVersion": "2024-07-30", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "homicides per 100,000 people", "numDecimalPlaces": 2}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {}, "source": {"id": 30959, "name": "OWID based on Eisner (2014); United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (2022); WHO Mortality Database (2024)", "dataPublishedBy": "OWID based on Eisner (2014); United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (2022); WHO Mortality Database (2024)", "dataPublisherSource": "", "link": "", "retrievedDate": "", "additionalInfo": "\nThe homicide rate data shown here is taken from Table 4 on pages 80-81 in Eisner (2015). In the table homicide rate estimates are given for a range of years, we present data for the mid-point year here. For example, if data is given for 1200-1299 we show this as 1250.\n\nDataset notes:\n\n* For 1775 and 1862 the data for Switzerland are for the canton of Zurich only.\n* From 1825 onwards the estimates for Corsica and Sardinia are for Sardinia only."}, "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1375}, {"id": 1425}, {"id": 1475}, {"id": 1525}, {"id": 1575}, {"id": 1625}, {"id": 1675}, {"id": 1725}, {"id": 1775}, {"id": 1825}, {"id": 1862}, {"id": 1887}, {"id": 1912}, {"id": 1937}, {"id": 1954}, {"id": 1955}, {"id": 1956}, {"id": 1957}, {"id": 1958}, {"id": 1959}, {"id": 1960}, {"id": 1961}, {"id": 1962}, {"id": 1963}, {"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 1250}, {"id": 1325}, {"id": 1950}, {"id": 1951}, {"id": 1952}, {"id": 1953}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 4, "name": "Belgium", "code": "BEL"}, {"id": 354624, "name": "Corsica and Sardinia", "code": null}, {"id": 278, "name": "England and Wales", "code": null}, {"id": 3, "name": "France", "code": "FRA"}, {"id": 6, "name": "Germany", "code": "DEU"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Ireland", "code": "IRL"}, {"id": 8, "name": "Italy", "code": "ITA"}, {"id": 5, "name": "Netherlands", "code": "NLD"}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 354623, "name": "Sweden and Finland", "code": null}, {"id": 7, "name": "Switzerland", "code": "CHE"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 1116, "title": "OWID based on Eisner and WHO Mortality Database", "producer": "Eisner (2014); WHO Mortality Database (2024)", "citationFull": "Eisner, M. (2014) \u201cFrom Swords to Words: Does Macro-Level Change in Self-Control Predict Long-Term Variation in Levels of Homicide?\u201d In Why Crime Rates Fall and Why They Don\u2019t, edited by Michael Tonry. Vol. 43 of Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, edited by Michael Tonry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact (DDI), World Health Organization (2024)", "urlMain": "Eisner (2014) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/677662?read-now=1&seq=16#page_scan_tab_contents; WHO Mortality Database (2024) - https://platform.who.int/mortality/themes/theme-details/topics/indicator-groups/indicator-group-details/MDB/violence", "dateAccessed": "2024-07-26", "datePublished": "2024-02-21"}]}