Homicide Victims in the Netherlands by Foster Location, Age, and Gender, 1996-2022

Data on people who died from murder or manslaughter in the Netherlands from 1996 onward, with final figures up to 2022. The dataset, published by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties, can be broken down by foster location, mode of execution, age, and gender, using ICD-10 codes X85-Y09. Since 2013, causes of death have been coded using international software (Iris) for reproducibility, though external causes remain manually processed.

Use Cases

• Analyze homicide trends over time based on the date of death criterion.
• Study victim demographics based on age and gender breakdowns.
• Examine geographic patterns of homicide based on foster location data.
• Compare causes of death classification before and after the 2013 switch to Iris software.

Strengths

• Final figures are provided for data from 1996 to 2022.
• Data is broken down by multiple dimensions including foster location, age, and gender.
• Uses ICD-10 codes (X85-Y09) for standardized cause-of-death classification.
• Since 2013, figures are coded with international software for reproducibility and comparability.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description notes significant shifts in cause-of-death figures after the 2013 methodology change.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Coded from cause-of-death statistics, with external causes processed manually.

Time Range

1996-2022 (final)

Freshness

Final data is available up to 2022, with preliminary 2023 figures expected in Q3 2024.

Geography

Netherlands