Table 1
Victims of homicide, by gender-related status and victim or incident characteristic, Canada, 2009 to 2022

Table 1
Victims of homicide, by gender-related status and victim or incident characteristic, Canada, 2009 to 2022 Table summary
The information is grouped by Victim or incident characteristic (appearing as row headers), Gender-related homicides of women and girls1, Non-gender-related homicides of women and girls, Homicide of men and boys and Total, calculated using number, percent, number, percent, number, percent, number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Victim or incident characteristic Gender-related homicides of women and girls Table 1  Note 1 Non-gender-related homicides of women and girls Homicide of men and boys Total
number percent number percent number percent number percent
Note 0

true zero or a value rounded to zero

Note ...

not applicable

Note 1

Gender-related homicides of women and girls are solved homicides committed by a man or boy who was an intimate partner or family member of the victim, inflicted sexual violence on the victim as part of the killing or killed a victim who was identified as a sex worker. Non-gender-related homicides of women and girls are all those that do not contain the above qualifiers but involve a woman or girl as the victim and have a known accused. The homicide of men and boys exclude unsolved incidents.

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Note 2

Not in the labour force refers to where the victim was either less than 15 years old, an institutional resident, unable to work, or unavailable for work.

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Note: Analysis focuses on solved homicides only. There may be a small number of homicides included in a given year's total that occurred in previous years. Homicides are counted according to the year in which they are reported to Statistics Canada. Excludes victims where gender was coded as unknown. Percent calculations exclude victims whose marital status, Indigenous identity, employment status, and method of killing was unknown. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Gender-related homicide record linkage file.
Gender  
Men or boys 0 0.0 0 0.0 4,504 100.0 4,504 68.9
Women or girls 1,399 100.0 631 100.0 0 0.0 2,030 31.1
Total 1,399 100.0 631 100.0 4,504 100.0 6,534 100.0
Age (years)  
11 and younger 74 5.3 65 10.3 164 3.6 303 4.6
12 to 17 51 3.6 39 6.2 184 4.1 274 4.2
18 to 24 160 11.4 87 13.8 854 19.0 1,101 16.9
25 to 34 280 20.0 116 18.4 1,101 24.4 1,497 22.9
35 to 44 257 18.4 94 14.9 755 16.8 1,106 16.9
45 to 54 217 15.5 67 10.6 669 14.9 953 14.6
55 to 64 190 13.6 58 9.2 435 9.7 683 10.5
65 or older 170 12.2 105 16.6 342 7.6 617 9.4
Total 1,399 100.0 631 100.0 4,504 100.0 6,534 100.0
Marital status  
Single, never married 332 24.3 290 49.6 2,333 56.1 2,955 48.4
Married 375 27.4 76 13.0 465 11.2 916 15.0
Living common-law 315 23.0 78 13.3 699 16.8 1,092 17.9
Separated or divorced 297 21.7 79 13.5 584 14.1 960 15.7
Widowed 50 3.7 62 10.6 74 1.8 186 3.0
Unknown 30 ... not applicable 46 ... not applicable 349 ... not applicable 425 ... not applicable
Total 1,399 100.0 631 100.0 4,504 100.0 6,534 100.0
Indigenous identity  
Not an Indigenous person 1,102 80.3 441 71.5 2,686 71.9 4,229 73.9
Indigenous person 270 19.7 176 28.5 1,051 28.1 1,497 26.1
Unknown 27 ... not applicable 14 ... not applicable 767 ... not applicable 808 ... not applicable
Total 1,399 100.0 631 100.0 4,504 100.0 6,534 100.0
Employment status  
Employed 552 43.9 155 28.0 1,192 34.7 1,899 36.2
Unemployed (in labour force) 136 10.8 79 14.3 761 22.2 976 18.6
Not in labour force Table 1  Note 2 568 45.2 320 57.8 1,479 43.1 2,367 45.2
Unknown 143 ... not applicable 77 ... not applicable 1,072 ... not applicable 1,292 ... not applicable
Total 1,399 100.0 631 100.0 4,504 100.0 6,534 100.0
Primary method to cause death  
Shooting 303 22.3 104 16.9 1,222 27.4 1,629 25.3
Stabbing 473 34.9 215 34.8 1,803 40.4 2,491 38.7
Beating or blows 271 20.0 131 21.2 981 22.0 1,383 21.5
Strangulation, suffocation, drowning 230 16.9 73 11.8 163 3.7 466 7.2
Other 80 5.9 94 15.2 292 6.5 466 7.2
Unknown 42 ... not applicable 14 ... not applicable 43 ... not applicable 99 ... not applicable
Total 1,399 100.0 631 100.0 4,504 100.0 6,534 100.0
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