Crime · Norway · Updated 2026-10-26

How many people are killed in Norway each year?

In 2025, Kripos's police homicide overview recorded 19 people killed in Norway (0.34 per 100,000) and FHI's preliminary cause-of-death register 17 (0.30), each the lowest in its series on this page, down from 36 and 38 in 2024; SSB, which checks the same police cases as Kripos, counted 20 victims in homicides reported that year.

Every figure in this summary is calculated from the sources listed on this page.

Homicide victims in Norway, 2025

People killed by homicide (intentional killing by another person), counted once per victim. Norway, Calendar year 2025. Unit: victims.

18victims, 2025

81Trust scoreHigh certainty

Quality32 / 40: How well the sources are made
Agreement23.3 / 30: How close the sources are to each other
Independence16 / 20: How many separate ways the number was measured
Freshness10 / 10: How recent the newest data is

How much each source counts

Kripos50%
FHI50%

Shown but not counted: SSB (republishes Kripos, national homicide overview (Nasjonal drapsoversikt 2025)); UNODC (republishes SSB, Offences and victims reported to the police (Anmeldte lovbrudd og ofre), table 08638: personoffer, "Drap").

Sources

Source	Value	Definition	Quality	Weight
Kripos, national homicide overview (Nasjonal drapsoversikt 2025)Kripos (National Criminal Investigation Service), Norwegian Police · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-26	192025	Victims of intentional and premeditated homicide (drap) under straffeloven 1902 § 233 and straffeloven 2005 § 275, including terror killings (§ 131 with § 275), committed in Norway or on Norwegian ships in international waters, counted by the year of the killing. Includes unsolved cases and cases still under investigation; leaves out killings of or by Norwegians abroad, cases closed as self-defence or with doubt that a homicide took place, and cases handled by Spesialenheten (the bureau that investigates police) unless they end in a conviction. 2025 and 2015-2024 from the 2025 edition, p. 6; earlier years from the latest edition that lists them (2011: https://www.politiet.no/globalassets/tall-og-fakta/drap/nasjonal-drapsoversikt-2021.pdf), recorded in scripts/norway-homicide.manual.json. 2011 includes the victims of the 22 July 2011 attacks, which Kripos added in June 2021.	4 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. Each edition states the legal definition, what is included and left out, and the registers used. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. The Norwegian police's national homicide overview, compiled by Kripos from police case records. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Covers every homicide case the police register, solved or not; not a sample. No: Raw data downloadable. Published only as tables in a PDF report; there is no data file to download. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No break in the 2011-2025 series used here (all from editions on the current rules); counts move between editions as cases are reclassified (2023: 38, then 41, then 37).	50%
FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D1_alder: "Drap"Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet, FHI) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-26	172025	Deaths of people registered as resident in Norway whose underlying cause on the death certificate is assault (European shortlist group "Drap": ICD-10 X85-Y09 and Y87.1), counted by year of death, wherever the death happened. FHI leaves non-residents who die in Norway out of its statistics bank. 2025 is preliminary (published 27 April 2026). Table D1_alder (id 643) in FHI's statistics bank, fetched from the open API (https://statistikk-data.fhi.no/api/open/v1/daar/Table/643/data). The same table records 24 deaths of undetermined intent in 2025; some may be homicides. About preliminary figures: https://www.fhi.no/op/dodsarsaksregisteret/om-forelopige-tall-i-dodsarsaksregisteret/.	4 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. FHI publishes its ICD-10 coding rules, the cause groups and notes on comparability over time. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health's cause of death registry. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Every death certificate for people resident in Norway; not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Counts by year, sex, age and cause download free from FHI's statistics bank and its open API. No: No known break or quality problem. 2025 is preliminary: FHI says the April figures may be incomplete and that deaths from external causes take longest to check; the final figures FHI planned for October 2026 were not out on 26 October 2026.	50%
SSB, Offences and victims reported to the police (Anmeldte lovbrudd og ofre), table 08638: personoffer, "Drap"Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå, SSB) · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-26	202025	Victims of homicide (drap) in offences reported to the police, counted by the year the offence was recorded as reported; each person is counted once per year. Attempted homicide and negligent homicide are separate categories and are not included. Not counted as a separate source: SSB takes its figures from the same police case register (BL/STRASAK) that Kripos's overview is built on, and since 2006 checks every homicide case against Kripos's information, saying the two counts are then close. Method: https://www.ssb.no/sosiale-forhold-og-kriminalitet/kriminalitet-og-rettsvesen/statistikk/anmeldte-lovbrudd-og-ofre. Table updated 2026-06-10.	5 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. SSB publishes the method, the offence classification and how it checks homicide cases. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics from Statistics Norway (SSB). Yes: Full count or representative sample. Every victim recorded in offences reported to the police; not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Table 08638 downloads free from SSB's StatBank and API. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No break: SSB's old and new offence codes for homicide give the same counts for 2010-2014; figures are fixed about two weeks after the year ends.	Not counted
UNODC Data Portal, victims of intentional homicide (Norway)United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-25	392024	Victims of intentional homicide (ICCS 0101), total for both sexes and all ages, as reported by Norway to the UN crime trends survey (UNODC source code CTS/GSH 2019 Revision/NP). Raw file data_cts_intentional_homicide.xlsx (UNODC, July 2026). Its counts for 2010-2024 equal SSB's victims of reported homicide (table 08638) in every year, so it is shown as a copy of SSB.	5 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. UNODC publishes the ICCS definition and a metadata note for the dataset. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. National figures submitted by the Norwegian government through the UN crime trends survey. Yes: Full count or representative sample. A count of all victims recorded by the authorities, not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. The whole dataset is a free Excel download from the UNODC data portal. Yes: No known break or quality problem. UNODC marks no adjustment or estimate for these values.	Not counted

Homicide victims in Norway, 2025, by source · victims

Kripos, national homicide overview (Nasjonal drapsoversikt 2025)
FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D1_alder: "Drap"
SSB, Offences and victims reported to the police (Anmeldte lovbrudd og ofre), table 08638: personoffer, "Drap"
UNODC Data Portal, victims of intentional homicide (Norway)

Show the data as a table

Year	Kripos, national homicide overview (Nasjonal drapsoversikt 2025)	FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D1_alder: "Drap"	SSB, Offences and victims reported to the police (Anmeldte lovbrudd og ofre), table 08638: personoffer, "Drap"	UNODC Data Portal, victims of intentional homicide (Norway)
2010	–	33	29	29
2011	110	114	111	111
2012	27	31	27	27
2013	41	51	46	46
2014	26	32	29	29
2015	23	21	24	24
2016	27	31	27	27
2017	25	26	28	28
2018	23	23	25	25
2019	26	27	28	28
2020	26	36	31	31
2021	28	30	29	29
2022	30	34	30	30
2023	37	36	40	40
2024	36	38	39	39
2025	19	17	20	–

Homicide rate in Norway, 2025

Homicide victims per 100,000 people. Norway, Calendar year 2025. Unit: per 100,000 people.

0.32per 100,000 people, 2025

81Trust scoreHigh certainty

Quality32 / 40: How well the sources are made
Agreement22.5 / 30: How close the sources are to each other
Independence16 / 20: How many separate ways the number was measured
Freshness10 / 10: How recent the newest data is

How much each source counts

Kripos50%
FHI50%

Sources

Source	Value	Definition	Quality	Weight
Kripos, national homicide overview (Nasjonal drapsoversikt 2025)Kripos (National Criminal Investigation Service), Norwegian Police · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-26	0.342025	Victims of intentional and premeditated homicide (drap) under straffeloven 1902 § 233 and straffeloven 2005 § 275, including terror killings (§ 131 with § 275), committed in Norway or on Norwegian ships in international waters, counted by the year of the killing. Includes unsolved cases and cases still under investigation; leaves out killings of or by Norwegians abroad, cases closed as self-defence or with doubt that a homicide took place, and cases handled by Spesialenheten (the bureau that investigates police) unless they end in a conviction. Divided by SSB's mean population for each year: the average of the populations on 1 January that year and the next (5,610,870 for 2025), which is how SSB defines middelfolkemengde (table 03037). The same population is used for every line except UNODC. 2025 and 2015-2024 from the 2025 edition, p. 6; earlier years from the latest edition that lists them (2011: https://www.politiet.no/globalassets/tall-og-fakta/drap/nasjonal-drapsoversikt-2021.pdf), recorded in scripts/norway-homicide.manual.json. 2011 includes the victims of the 22 July 2011 attacks, which Kripos added in June 2021. Kripos publishes no rate; it is computed here.	4 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. Each edition states the legal definition, what is included and left out, and the registers used. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. The Norwegian police's national homicide overview, compiled by Kripos from police case records. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Covers every homicide case the police register, solved or not; not a sample. No: Raw data downloadable. Published only as tables in a PDF report; there is no data file to download. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No break in the 2011-2025 series used here (all from editions on the current rules); counts move between editions as cases are reclassified (2023: 38, then 41, then 37).	50%
FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D1_alder: "Drap"Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet, FHI) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-26	0.32025	Deaths of people registered as resident in Norway whose underlying cause on the death certificate is assault (European shortlist group "Drap": ICD-10 X85-Y09 and Y87.1), counted by year of death, wherever the death happened. FHI leaves non-residents who die in Norway out of its statistics bank. 2025 is preliminary (published 27 April 2026). Divided by SSB's mean population for each year: the average of the populations on 1 January that year and the next (5,610,870 for 2025), which is how SSB defines middelfolkemengde (table 03037). The same population is used for every line except UNODC. Table D1_alder (id 643) in FHI's statistics bank, fetched from the open API (https://statistikk-data.fhi.no/api/open/v1/daar/Table/643/data). The same table records 24 deaths of undetermined intent in 2025; some may be homicides. About preliminary figures: https://www.fhi.no/op/dodsarsaksregisteret/om-forelopige-tall-i-dodsarsaksregisteret/.	4 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. FHI publishes its ICD-10 coding rules, the cause groups and notes on comparability over time. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health's cause of death registry. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Every death certificate for people resident in Norway; not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Counts by year, sex, age and cause download free from FHI's statistics bank and its open API. No: No known break or quality problem. 2025 is preliminary: FHI says the April figures may be incomplete and that deaths from external causes take longest to check; the final figures FHI planned for October 2026 were not out on 26 October 2026.	50%
SSB, Offences and victims reported to the police (Anmeldte lovbrudd og ofre), table 08638: personoffer, "Drap"Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå, SSB) · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-26	0.362025	Victims of homicide (drap) in offences reported to the police, counted by the year the offence was recorded as reported; each person is counted once per year. Attempted homicide and negligent homicide are separate categories and are not included. Divided by SSB's mean population for each year: the average of the populations on 1 January that year and the next (5,610,870 for 2025), which is how SSB defines middelfolkemengde (table 03037). The same population is used for every line except UNODC. Not counted as a separate source: SSB takes its figures from the same police case register (BL/STRASAK) that Kripos's overview is built on, and since 2006 checks every homicide case against Kripos's information, saying the two counts are then close. Method: https://www.ssb.no/sosiale-forhold-og-kriminalitet/kriminalitet-og-rettsvesen/statistikk/anmeldte-lovbrudd-og-ofre. Table updated 2026-06-10.	5 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. SSB publishes the method, the offence classification and how it checks homicide cases. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics from Statistics Norway (SSB). Yes: Full count or representative sample. Every victim recorded in offences reported to the police; not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Table 08638 downloads free from SSB's StatBank and API. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No break: SSB's old and new offence codes for homicide give the same counts for 2010-2014; figures are fixed about two weeks after the year ends.	Not counted
UNODC Data Portal, victims of intentional homicide (Norway)United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-25	0.72024	Victims of intentional homicide (ICCS 0101), total for both sexes and all ages, as reported by Norway to the UN crime trends survey (UNODC source code CTS/GSH 2019 Revision/NP). Rate as published by UNODC, which divides by the UN World Population Prospects 2024 population; not recomputed. Raw file data_cts_intentional_homicide.xlsx (UNODC, July 2026). Its counts for 2010-2024 equal SSB's victims of reported homicide (table 08638) in every year, so it is shown as a copy of SSB.	5 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. UNODC publishes the ICCS definition and a metadata note for the dataset. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. National figures submitted by the Norwegian government through the UN crime trends survey. Yes: Full count or representative sample. A count of all victims recorded by the authorities, not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. The whole dataset is a free Excel download from the UNODC data portal. Yes: No known break or quality problem. UNODC marks no adjustment or estimate for these values.	Not counted

Homicide rate in Norway, 2025, by source · per 100,000 people

Kripos, national homicide overview (Nasjonal drapsoversikt 2025)
FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D1_alder: "Drap"
SSB, Offences and victims reported to the police (Anmeldte lovbrudd og ofre), table 08638: personoffer, "Drap"
UNODC Data Portal, victims of intentional homicide (Norway)

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Year	Kripos, national homicide overview (Nasjonal drapsoversikt 2025)	FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D1_alder: "Drap"	SSB, Offences and victims reported to the police (Anmeldte lovbrudd og ofre), table 08638: personoffer, "Drap"	UNODC Data Portal, victims of intentional homicide (Norway)
2010	–	0.67	0.59	0.59
2011	2.22	2.3	2.24	2.24
2012	0.54	0.62	0.54	0.54
2013	0.81	1	0.91	0.91
2014	0.51	0.62	0.56	0.56
2015	0.44	0.4	0.46	0.46
2016	0.52	0.59	0.52	0.52
2017	0.47	0.49	0.53	0.53
2018	0.43	0.43	0.47	0.47
2019	0.49	0.5	0.52	0.52
2020	0.48	0.67	0.58	0.58
2021	0.52	0.55	0.54	0.54
2022	0.55	0.62	0.55	0.55
2023	0.67	0.65	0.72	0.72
2024	0.65	0.68	0.7	0.7
2025	0.34	0.3	0.36	–

Why the numbers differ

Kripos puts each victim in the year of the killing and SSB in the year the offence was reported to the police; FHI puts a death in the year the person died, so someone attacked late in one year who dies the next is counted in different years.
Kripos keeps updating its overview as investigations and trials end: cases closed as self-defence or no crime are removed and suspicious deaths later found to be homicides are added. Its count for 2023 was 38 in the 2023 edition, then 41 in the 2024 edition, then 37 in the 2025 edition. SSB fixes its figures about two weeks after the year ends, and FHI updates preliminary figures as autopsy reports arrive. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
Killings abroad and visitors: Kripos leaves out killings of or by Norwegians abroad but counts everyone killed in Norway; FHI counts only people resident in Norway, including those who die abroad, though it lacks the cause for most deaths abroad.
FHI's group "Drap" covers every death from an assault, including violence not meant to kill, which Kripos's murder count leaves out. In 11 of the 14 years from 2011 to 2024 FHI's count was higher than Kripos's, by up to 10 in 2013. Calculated from the FHI table and the Kripos editions in the sources table. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)

Common mistakes

Treating 2011 as a normal year: it includes the 77 people killed in the terror attacks of 22 July 2011. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
Adding attempted homicides: Kripos and SSB count people killed; SSB lists attempted homicide (drapsforsøk) as a separate offence.
Reading SSB's yearly figure as killings in that year: it counts offences reported to the police that year.

Context

Considered, not used

Kripos count for 2010: Only in editions from before the 2021 edition, the first to say cases closed as no crime proven are removed. Between the June 2021 and January 2022 editions Kripos lowered its 2019 count from 29 to 25, so the older figure is not comparable. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
SSB, reported offences (Anmeldte lovbrudd, table 08484): "Drap": Counts offences, not victims, from the same police register; the victims table is used. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
WHO Mortality Database, deaths by assault (Norway): Republishes the cause of death data that Norway's registry sends to WHO, with a longer delay; it is not a separate count. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)

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How many people are killed in Norway each year?

Homicide victims in Norway, 2025

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How much each source counts

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Homicide rate in Norway, 2025

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Why the numbers differ

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