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Australian Crime: Facts and Figures 2002
Victims of homicide
Age and gender of homicide victims, rate per 100,000 persons, 2001
Sources
- Australian Bureau of Statistics 2002, Recorded crime Australia 2001, cat. no. 4510.0.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics 2001, Population by age and sex: Australian states and territories, cat. no. 3201.0.
What this chart shows
- Sixty-one per cent of victims were male.
- In all age categories except the 0-9 age group and the 65 and over age group, the risk of being a victim of homicide was higher for males than for females.
- Males in the 25 to 44 age group were most at risk of being a homicide victim.
- The number of female victims in the 0-9 age group doubled from 10 victims in 2000 to 21 victims in 2001.
- The number of male victims remained constant in 2001, relative to 2000, while the number of female victims decreased by 7%.