Italy: number of homicides 2011-2025| ��ƽ��

Total number of homicides in Italy from August 2011 to July 2025

Characteristic	Number of homicides
January 2025 - July 2025	184
January 2024 - July 2024	178
January 2023 - July 2023	195
August 2021 - July 2022*	319
August 2020 - July 2021*	276
August 2019 - July 2020	295
August 2018 - July 2019	334
August 2017 - July 2018	357
August 2016 - July 2017	371
August 2015- July 2016	398
August 2014- July 2015	449
August 2013- July 2014	493
August 2012- July 2013	521
August 2011- July 2012	555

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August 2025

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Italy

Survey time period

August 1st, 2011 to July 31st, 2025

Supplementary notes

* Not consolidated.

Data for years before August 2018 has been taken from previous publications by the same source.

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The most recent report of the Italian Ministry of the Interior reveals that between January and July 2025, 184 homicides were committed in Italy. The number of homicides has recorded a decreasing trend since 2011. Overall, about 2.3 million criminal acts were reported in Italy in 2023.

Femicide

Femicide, a homicide in which a woman is killed for gender-based reasons, poses a serious problem around the world. In 2018, roughly one in six Italians believed that femicide was on the rise. Women, victims of homicide, are often related to the culprit; in 2022, 74 women in Italy were killed by their partner.

Crime in Italy

In 2023, the most common crime in Italy was theft. Law enforcement corps reported one million cases of this delinquency to the juridical authority, with the highest theft rate in the metropolitan city of Milan.