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Welcome to the international-crime-stats wiki!

This project brings together a bunch of analysis of international statistics about crime (ie country-level statistics about crime within countries; not about international crime per se).

Analysis

TODO - links to pages that explain analysis

Data sources

Crime data

• OECD data on death by assaults and suicides - from the OECD Health Status database
• UN data on homicides

Other indicators

• Civilian ownership of firearms in 2007 from Small Arms Survey 2007, which appears to be the only source on civilian ownership of firearms. The data has some problems.
• GNI, Inequality, and alcohol use sourced from the World Bank or WHO
• HDI from the UNDP

Concordances

• the file ./data/conc_iso3166.csv is a hand-edited concordance from country names to ISO3166 two character and three character codes. Country names include those used by the WHO database as well as the Small Arms Survey