Knife deaths by country per year

Question

I am trying to find the number of knife deaths and/or knife attacks by country per year. There are many sources for gun deaths, but strangely not any that I could find for knife deaths.

Answer 1

You can download crime/murder statistics that are classified by "mechanism" from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

• Data portal

• On the left menu sidebar, choose "Crime and Criminal Justice"

• Then select "Homicide"

• Then select "Percent of homicides by mechanism (2005-2012)

• Create an XLS export (here's a direct link)

• The term they seem to use is "Sharp" for knife deaths

• Note that there are some other potential categories, so you may find better data sets by digging around.