Italy has similar homicide rates: 5 per million.

But also a population 12 times larger than Norway (60 million people).

Los Angeles and Norway have a comparable population, in Los Angeles in 2020 there have been 300 homicides, a 20% increase over 2019, despite covid. It's more than the whole Italy that stopped at 271, 14% less than 2019 that ended with 315 homicides.

Los Angeles has the same size of Rome, in Rome there have been "only" 15 homicides in 2020, 20 times less than LA.

US is the outlier in the West, all the other developed countries have comparable homicide rates.

Japan has the lowest rates globally, in 2017 they had 56 times less homicides per capita than in USA.