Not at all.<p>For example New Hampshire has a murder rate much lower than Serbia, England, or France. It is more on lines with Germany.<p>Also, everyone collects murder states differently. The US usually publishes states from the FBI, whose logic is basically &quot;there is a dead body and it looks like someone else did it&quot;. The UK, on the other hand, has the Home Office publish murder rates in terms of <i>convictions</i>, which necessarily will be less than the number of bodies.