According to Statistics Canada, the homicide rate for Indigenous peoples is 10.05 per 100,000, compared to 1.41 per 100,000 for non-Indigenous people.

According to Statistics Canada, the homicide rate for Indigenous victims in Canada was seven times greater than the rate for non-Indigenous individuals in 2020.

According to Statistics Canada, the homicide rate for Indigenous peoples is 10.05 per 100,000, compared to 1.41 per 100,000 for non-Indigenous people.

According to Statistics Canada, 743 killings were recorded by police in 2020. This is the greatest number of homicides reported in Canada since 1991, and 56 more than in 2019, raising the country's homicide rate by 7% from 1.83 per 100,000 people in 2019 to 1.95 per 100,000 population in 2020.

This is the highest homicide rate in the United States since 2005.

In 2020, there were 201 indigenous homicide victims, accounting for 28 percent of all homicide victims in Canada.

The number of indigenous male victims jumped 32, or up 24 percent, to 163 compared with 2019, the most since 2014 when statistics on indigenous status first became available.

Homicide rates were approximately eight times more for Indigenous males of 16.50 per 100,000 population than non-Indigenous men of 2.14 per 100,000 population.

Women's rates were about five and a half times higher for Indigenous women (3.76 per 100,000 vs. 0.69 per 100,000 non-Indigenous women).

Colonialization, including residential schools, labor camps, and forced migration, has had a devastating impact on Indigenous communities and families. Indigenous peoples are frequently marginalized, discriminated against, and subjected to many types of trauma and violence, including intergenerational trauma and gender-based violence. As a result, many Indigenous peoples face difficult social and economic situations.

These factors contribute significantly to Indigenous peoples' overrepresentation in the criminal justice system and as victims of crime.