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List of killings by law enforcement officers by country (Wikipedia)

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This is a list of deaths caused by law enforcement officers by country.

Country (or dependent territory,

subnational area, etc.)

 Region People killed by
security forces		 Breakdown Population Rate per 10 million people Year listed Notes Source

Police

Military

Intelligence
agencies

Other
 Venezuela Americas 5287 32,381,000 1632.7 2018 [1]
 El Salvador Americas 609 6,380,000 954.5 2017 [2][3]
 Syria Asia 1497 18,270,000 831.6 2019 [4]
 Nicaragua Americas 325+ 6,218,000 522.7 2018 Up to 535 [5]
 Jamaica Americas 137 133 4 0 0 2,898,000 472.7 2018 [6]
 Trinidad and Tobago Americas 46 46 0 0 0 1,354,000 339.7 2014 [7]
 Philippines Asia 3451 107,048,000 322.5 2016/7 [8]
 Brazil Americas 6160 210,085,000 293.2 2018 [9]
 Bahamas Americas 11 11 0 0 0 399,285 275.7 2018 [10]
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Americas 2 2 0 0 0 110,211 181.8 2018 [11]
 Afghanistan Asia 606 49 267 234 56 35,530,000 170.5 2018 [12]
 Guyana Americas 12+ 12 0 0 0 787,076 152.5 2018 [13][14][15][16][17]
 Dominican Republic Americas 142 134 5 0 3 10,770,000 131.8 2017 [18]
 Honduras Americas 92 8,352,000 110.2 2011 [19]
 South Africa Africa 436 56,720,000 76.9 2017/8 [20]
 Central African Republic Africa 30+ 30+ 4,659,000 64.4 2015/6 18 documented executions with credible information about 12 other cases [21]
 Lesotho Africa 19 2,233,000 63.8 2017/8 Data from 16 months, rate divided accordingly. [22]
 Uruguay Americas 22 3,469,551 63.4 2019 [23]
 Burkina Faso Africa 116 19,190,000 60.4 2018/9 From September 2018 to February 2019 [24]
 Saint Lucia Americas 1 1 0 0 0 178,844 56.2 2019 [25]
 Burundi Africa 39 10 1 2 26 10,860,000 53.9 2018 Data from 8 months, rate multiplied accordingly. [26]
 Democratic Republic of the Congo Africa 389 81,340,000 47.8 2018 [27]
 Iraq Asia 176+ 39,309,783 45.1 2019 [28][29]
 Nigeria Africa 841 190,900,000 44.0 2018 [30]
 Kenya Africa 222 50,950,879 43.5 2018 [31]
 Iran Asia 304+ 83,372,584 36.6 2019 Low estimate, real figure is likely to be higher [32]
 Angola Africa 100+ 28,810,000 34.7 2016 Data from capital city only. [33]
 Colombia Americas 169 97 72 0 0 49,070,000 34.1 2017 [34]
 Mali Africa 60+ 18,540,000 32.3 2018 [35]
 Sudan Africa 138+ 43,110,00 32.1 2019 [36][37]
 Rwanda Africa 37+ 11,920,000 31.0 2016/7 [38]
 Mexico Americas 371 145 170 0 56 124,041,731 30.0 2017 [34]
 United States Americas 933 329,450,000 28.4 2019 See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States [39]
 Bangladesh Asia 466 164,700,000 28.3 2018 [40]
 Pakistan Asia 495 197,000,000 25.2 2017 [41]
 Swaziland Africa 3+ 1,357,161 22.1 2019 [42]
 Argentina Americas 95 44,270,000 21.6 2019 [43]
 Egypt Africa 212 97,550,000 21.2 2018 Counted using graph [44]
 Malta Europe 1 0 1 0 0 493,559 20.0 2019 [45]
 Luxembourg Europe 1 1 0 0 0 590,321 16.9 2018 [46]
 Canada Americas 36 37,060,000 9.7 2017 See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in Canada [47]
 Sweden Europe 6 6 0 0 0 9,995,000 6.0 2018 [48][49]
 Finland Europe 3 3 0 0 0 5,503,000 5.4 2016 [50]
 France Europe 26 26 67,392,000 3.8 2018 [51]
 Indonesia Asia 77+ 264,000,000 2.9 2018 As of August 17, 2018 [52]
 Netherlands Europe 4 4 0 0 0 17,080,000 2.3 2017 [53]
 New Zealand Oceania 1 1 0 0 0 4,794,000 2.1 2018 One additional death ruled inconclusive [54]
 Norway Europe 1 1 0 0 0 5,258,000 1.9 2016 [55]
   Nepal Asia 5+ 5 0 0 0 29,300,000 1.7 2019 [56]
 Australia Oceania 4 0 0 0 0 24,600,000 1.7 2016/7 [57]
 Germany Europe 11 11 0 0 0 82,887,000 1.3 2018 See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in Germany [58]
 Hong Kong Asia 1 1 0 0 0 7,392,000 1.3 2019 See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in China [59]
 India Asia 135 1,324,171,354 1.0 2016 [60]
 Portugal Europe 1 1 0 0 0 10,290,000 1.0 2018 [61]
 Taiwan Asia 2 2 0 0 0 23,580,000 0.8 2018 [62]
 Poland Europe 2 2 0 0 0 38,433,600 0.5 2019 See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in Poland [63][64]
 United Kingdom Europe 3 3 0 0 0 66,040,229 0.5 2019 See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United Kingdom [65]
 Japan Asia 2 2 0 0 0 127,185,332 0.2 2018 [66][67]
 Denmark Europe 0 0 0 0 0 5,805,000 0 2018 Average in 2003–2014 was 1 killed per year, a pattern that generally has been repeated in later years [68][69][70]
 Iceland Europe 1 1 0 0 0 350,000 0 2016 2013 was the only year in which police killed anybody [71]
  Switzerland Europe 0 0 0 0 0 8,420,000 0 2018 [72]

Historical data

See also

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