A survey conducted by the UK Home Office of 20 European and nine North American cities put the US capital way out in front with a murder rate of 69.3 per 100,000 population.
That suggests Washington is about 170 times more dangerous than the Belgian capital, Brussels, which came bottom with 0.4 murders per 100,000.
Washington was a long way ahead of the second most murderous city, Philadelphia, which had a rate of 27.4.
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Murder rate per capita, out of 62 listed countries.
#24 United States 0.042802 per 1,000 people
#44 Canada 0.0149063 per 1,000 people