Table 8
Rate of attempted murder, by presence of gender-related criterion, and province and territories, Canada, 2011, 2016, 2021


Table 8
Rate of attempted murder, by presence of gender-related criterion, and province and territories, Canada, 2011, 2016, 2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Rate of attempted murder. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), 2011, 2016, 2021, Gender-related attempted murders of women and girls and Non-gender related attempted murders, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territories 2011 2016 2021
Gender-related attempted murders of women and girlsTable 8 Note 1 Non-gender related attempted murders Gender-related attempted murders of women and girlsTable 8 Note 1 Non-gender related attempted murders Gender-related attempted murders of women and girlsTable 8 Note 1 Non-gender related attempted murders
number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate
Atlantic Canada 2 0.17 18 0.78 2 0.17 6 0.26 3 0.25 17 0.71
Quebec 21 0.52 45 0.57 25 0.61 45 0.55 18 0.42 38 0.44
Ontario 20 0.30 65 0.50 22 0.32 74 0.54 23 0.31 78 0.53
Manitoba 2 0.33 9 0.75 1 0.16 7 0.55 0 0.00 2 0.15
Saskatchewan 2 0.39 9 0.86 2 0.36 14 1.26 0 0.00 15 1.30
Alberta 4 0.21 10 0.26 4 0.19 14 0.33 2 0.09 11 0.25
British Columbia 10 0.44 25 0.56 6 0.24 24 0.49 5 0.19 17 0.33
Territories 0 0.00 1 0.88 3 5.12 2 1.66 0 0.00 6 4.69
Canada 61 0.36 182 0.54 65 0.36 186 0.52 51 0.27 184 0.49
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Note 1

Includes attempted murders of women and girls where a current or former male intimate partner or spouse or a male family member (e.g., parent, child, sibling, extended family member) was the accused. Non-gender-related attempted murders are all those that do not contain the above qualifiers. Analysis focuses on cleared incidents only.

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Note: For the purposes of analysis, includes incidents with a single victim and a single accused. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Excludes victims and accused where gender was coded as unknown. The option for police to code victims as “gender diverse” in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey was implemented in 2018. In the context of the UCR Survey, “gender diverse” refers to a person who publicly expresses as neither exclusively male nor exclusively female. Given that small counts of victims identified as being gender diverse may exist, the UCR data available to the public has been recoded with these victims distributed in the “male” or “female” categories based on the regional distribution of victims’ gender.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database.
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