The USA are certainly not the worst when it comes to murders:
#1
Colombia:0.617847 per 1,000 people
#2
South Africa:0.496008 per 1,000 people
#3
Jamaica:0.324196 per 1,000 people
#4
Venezuela:0.316138 per 1,000 people
#5
Russia:0.201534 per 1,000 people
#6
Mexico:0.130213 per 1,000 people
#7
Estonia:0.107277 per 1,000 people
#8
Latvia:0.10393 per 1,000 people
#9
Lithuania:0.102863 per 1,000 people
#10
Belarus:0.0983495 per 1,000 people
#11
Ukraine:0.094006 per 1,000 people
#12
Papua New Guinea:0.0838593 per 1,000 people
#13
Kyrgyzstan:0.0802565 per 1,000 people
#14
Thailand:0.0800798 per 1,000 people
#15
Moldova:0.0781145 per 1,000 people
#16
Zimbabwe:0.0749938 per 1,000 people
#17
Seychelles:0.0739025 per 1,000 people
#18
Zambia:0.070769 per 1,000 people
#19
Costa Rica:0.061006 per 1,000 people
#20
Poland:0.0562789 per 1,000 people
#21
Georgia:0.0511011 per 1,000 people
#22
Uruguay:0.045082 per 1,000 people
#23
Bulgaria:0.0445638 per 1,000 people
#24
United States:0.042802 per 1,000 people
#25
Armenia:0.0425746 per 1,000 people
#26
India:0.0344083 per 1,000 people
#27
Yemen:0.0336276 per 1,000 people
#28
Dominica:0.0289733 per 1,000 people
#29
Azerbaijan:0.0285642 per 1,000 people
#30
Finland:0.0283362 per 1,000 people
#31
Slovakia:0.0263303 per 1,000 people
#32
Romania:0.0250784 per 1,000 people
#33
Portugal:0.0233769 per 1,000 people
#34
Malaysia:0.0230034 per 1,000 people
#35
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:0.0229829 per 1,000 people
#36
Mauritius:0.021121 per 1,000 people
#37
Hungary:0.0204857 per 1,000 people
#38
Korea, South:0.0196336 per 1,000 people
#39
Slovenia:0.0179015 per 1,000 people
#40
France:0.0173272 per 1,000 people
#41
Czech Republic:0.0169905 per 1,000 people
#42
Iceland:0.0168499 per 1,000 people
#43
Australia:0.0150324 per 1,000 people
#44
Canada:0.0149063 per 1,000 people
#45
Chile:0.014705 per 1,000 people
#46
United Kingdom:0.0140633 per 1,000 people
#47
Italy:0.0128393 per 1,000 people
#48
Spain:0.0122456 per 1,000 people
#49
Germany:0.0116461 per 1,000 people
#50
Tunisia:0.0112159 per 1,000 people
#51
Netherlands:0.0111538 per 1,000 people
#52
New Zealand:0.0111524 per 1,000 people
#53
Denmark:0.0106775 per 1,000 people
#54
Norway:0.0106684 per 1,000 people
#55
Ireland:0.00946215 per 1,000 people
#56
Switzerland:0.00921351 per 1,000 people
#57
Indonesia:0.00910842 per 1,000 people
#58
Greece:0.0075928 per 1,000 people
#59
Hong Kong:0.00550804 per 1,000 people
#60
Japan:0.00499933 per 1,000 people
#61
Saudi Arabia:0.00397456 per 1,000 people
#62
Qatar:0.00115868 per 1,000 people