The homicide rate in the United States peaks locally at 10 per 100,000 people per year (0.010%/year), then drops by half from 2010 onward. England had a rate of 1 per 100,000 people per year (0.001%/year) in 1980, rising to 1.5 in 2004, before declining again. In previous centuries, the rate was extremely high: in Italy, for example, it was 70 per 100,000 people per year (0.070%/year) in 1450.
