Comparing Recent Crime Trends in Canada and the United States: An Introduction is a new study, and first chapter of a larger study examining crime rates between the two countries and focuses on national comparisons, that finds from 2014 (a year when crimes rates reached their lowest) to 2022 (the most recent comparable year of data), the violent crime rate in Canada increased by 43.8 percent to 434.1 violent crimes per 100,000 people. That’s now higher than the violent crime rate in the U.S., which only increased 5.3 percent over the same period.
