The homicide rate in Western Europe is around 1 per 100,000 people per year (0.001%/year). In Italy, for example, it was 70 per 100,000 people per year (0.070%/year) in 1450. Even in the southwestern United States (where in 1860 it was 200 per 100,000 people per year or 0.2%/year) it has dropped to less than 10 per 100,000 people per year (0.010%/year).
