Italy ranks favourably in the homicide mortality rate, an indicator used by the European Union to monitor personal safety. In 2023, the Italian rate was 0.4 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to an EU average of nearly 0.7; this ratio places Italy, along with Germany and Malta, among the countries with the lowest murder mortality in the Union. The disparity becomes much more pronounced when the comparison is made to the countries with the highest values, which range from 1.1 in Sweden, Estonia, and Luxembourg to 1.5 in Lithuania and 1.7% in Latvia. Of the twenty Italian areas for which Eurostat data for 2023 is available, seventeen have a value lower than the European average (0.65), Abruzzo has an exact average value, and only Valle d'Aosta (0.68) and Sardinia (0.86) exceed it. According to the historical reconstruction published by Istat, the number of homicides averaged nearly 2,000 per year between 1891 and 1925, which is equivalent to 5.9 per 100,000 inhabitants. However, the figure decreased to just over 300 cases per year between 2020 and 2024.