Homicide Victims Report 2022 and Historical NZ Murder Rate Report 1926-2022

Homicide Victims Report 2022 (PDF 2MB)

A Summary of Statistics about Victims of Murder, Manslaughter, and Infanticide

Report at a glance:

• Between 2007 – 2021 there were 1,076 people killed by homicide (i.e., murder and manslaughter offences).
• Māori account for approximately a third of homicide victims.
• Males represented 66 percent of all victims.
• The lowest annual homicide figure of 46 was in 2017.
• About a third of all homicides were murders.
• Of all family-linked homicide victims, 44% were male and 56% were female.
• Around 15% of homicides were committed by a current or ex-partner – 74% of these victims were female.
• Children under the age of five made up 11 percent of homicide victims.

Provisionally, 93 homicide victimisations are reported for 2022.

Note: Driving causing death offences are currently not included in this report.

Historical NZ Murder Rate Report 1926-2022 (PDF 179KB)

The table shows Murder offences collated from existing electronic and microfiche data from previous Police annual reports and crime statistics and the current statistics on Homicide Victims.