According to data from Eurostat, the average homicide rate per 100,000 population is 0.6 in 2016, while in Albania this rate according to Monitor estimates, based on data published by INSTAT, had 3.5 homicide per 100,000 population.

Albania ranks behind countries like Latvia with a rate of 4.6 homicides per 100,000 population and Lithuania with 3.6 homicides per 100,000 population. While the lowest rate has been recorded in the UK with 0.1 killings per 100,000 inhabitants.

Eurostat estimates that the homicide rate has been declining since 2002. In 2016 the total number of homicides across the European Union was 3300, with the majority of victims (65%) being men.

Even in Albania, homicide rates have been declining in recent years. The homicide rate for 2017 and 2018 stands at 2.3 homicide rates per 100,000 inhabitants.

Meanwhile, according to a UNODC report, Albania is the country with the highest rate of homicide by intimate partners in Europe. The data was published by the United Nations Office on Crime and Drugs (UNODC) in a recent report, "Global Study on Gender-Related Homicide for Women and Girls".

According to charts published in this report, Albania had the highest rate of homicide by intimate partners, with 0.7 homicides per 100,000 women, according to data referring to 2016. This is the highest rate in Europe.
After Albania, Iceland is second with 0.6 killings per 100,000 women, followed by Croatia (0.5), Lithuania (0.5), Finland (0.4) and Switzerland (0.4).

If the vast majority of homicide victims are men, killed by strangers, women are more likely to die at the hands of someone they know.