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Age and sex (Table 5)
4.1 In total there were 100 victims in the homicide cases recorded in 1998, equivalent to a rate of 19.5 victims per million population. Seventy seven per cent of these victims were aged between 16 and 49. The highest homicide rate was in the 16-29 age group (37.6 per million population); the lowest rate was in the 1-4 age group (4.1 per million population).
4.2 Almost eighty per cent of homicide victims in 1998 were male. The overall homicide rate for males was 31.8 victims per million population, four times the female homicide rate. For males, the highest homicide rate recorded in 1998 was for the 16 to 29 age group (59.6 per million population), higher than the rate for 1997, but lower than the rates observed between 1992 and 1996.
Chart 4: Victims(1) per million population, 1998, by age and sex
1. Currently (as at 12 November 1999) recorded as homicide victims.
Chart 5: Homicide victims(1), 1989-1998, by age and sex
1. Currently (as at 12 November 1999) recorded as homicide victims.
Geographical location
4.3 Frequency of homicide varies considerably throughout Scotland. Chart 6 shows a breakdown by council area of average number of victims per million population for the ten years covered by this bulletin. Over this period the average homicide rate for Scotland as a whole was 21.2 victims per million population. The highest rates of homicide victims per million population were observed in Glasgow (50.9), followed by Inverclyde (42.5), West Dunbartonshire (38.9) and Renfrewshire (31.0). The lowest rates were observed in Aberdeenshire (5.8), East Dunbartonshire (6.5) and Moray (7.0). Of the main urban areas, Aberdeen had the lowest homicide rate, at 14.3 victims per million population.
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