At ~1.1 per 100.000 inhabitants it is lower than the USA which lies around ~4.9 per 100.000 (data from BRÅ (Sweden) and FBI (USA) for 2016). Compared to the res

At ~1.1 per 100.000 inhabitants it is lower than the USA which lies around ~4.9 per 100.000 (data from BRÅ (Sweden) and FBI (USA) for 2016). Compared to the rest of north-western Europe Sweden lies on the high side, e.g. Norway has less than half of this number, the Netherlands about half, Germany around ⅔, Denmark has a comparable murder rate. The situation in Sweden varies markedly from place to place with Malmö generally lying somewhere at the top (~3.5 murders/100.000). Where most countries in the region have seen a downward trend in the number of people subject to a crime, Sweden and Germany go against the trend with a steadily rising number [1,2], in Sweden this seems to be largely due to the rise in gang-related violence which has also led to a sharp increase in the number of shootings and gun-related homicides [4], hand-grenade attacks [4] and stabbings (on which I do not have separate data other than noticing the number of knife-related crimes in the news steadily increasing). For more info see Wikipedia:Crime in Sweden [5]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in_Sweden/0/d0dfcfedc5df97f89038ec1d6f907f238078f326.png https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sweden-crime-1976-2016-robbery-sex-murder.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sweden-crime-1976-2016-ro... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in_Sweden/0/d18beb79a323413058447f353903f0859c9e96a4.png https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in_Sweden/0/c7f34ec045ca46991ad8cb68e7e7c98fc4b0eccf.png https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden